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Joe McDonagh Cup: Antrim resist London comeback
Conal Cunning of Antrim. Photo by Thomas Flinkow/Sportsfile Joe McDonagh Cup Round 3 ANTRM 1-22 LONDON 4-9 By Brían Doyle at McGovern Park, Ruislip Antrim secured their first victory of this year’s Joe McDonagh Cup campaign with a hard-fought win over London on a cold and blustery afternoon in Ruislip, although Davy Fitzgerald’s side were forced to withstand a dramatic late comeback from the hosts before finally getting over the line.
Beer, blood, broken glass; Writer BRIAN DOYLE recently brought down the house at the Elmdale with his own quirky history of the infamous watering hole. With news the tavern is being taken over by the Whalesbone eatery, we thought his memories deserve a wi Original
This is one of a series of 24 essays that Brian Doyle wrote for the Ottawa Citizen in 2012. This feature was published on Nov. 5, 2012. A Nov. 4, 2012, file photo of patrons at the Elmdale Tavern. /Postmedia files The Elmdale. I never thought I’d see the day when this storied and wonderful and intimidating dump of a joint would actually be hosting cultural events. Sign In or Create an Account I was here then, the way things used to be.
Biblioclast | By Randa Jarrar | Issue 483 | The Sun Magazine
1. My father. He wanted me to become a writer, but when I did, he didn’t like what I wrote. He hated my first novel and called it pornography: it features lots of teenage sex and masturbation, as well as an unsavory portrayal of a narcissistic and selfish patriarch. He insisted it was the sex scenes that offended him and not the depiction of the father character, whom I had based loosely on him.
Issue 565 | The Sun Magazine
Fiction Frights Ellie was a bedroom ghost: a dream-visitant, a gentle levitator, a classic cold-sweat presence-in-the-corner, but she felt under-sung. , she told us.
The Sun Magazine | Thursdays For Haru | By Emily Doyle | Issue 565
Haru Jenkins’s husband has been abducted at 3:23 AM every Thursday for six years. The first abduction occurred a month after their youngest son went away to college. Haru’s husband was returned to his bed at 6:18 AM, well rested and still in his striped pajamas. The same has happened every time since. It doesn’t matter if they visit one of their children for Christmas or go on holiday to Italy — her husband still disappears every Thursday morning at 3:23 AM. The abductions track space and time zones.
The Sun Magazine | Everyone Thinks That Awful Comes By Itself, But It Doesn’t | By Brian Doyle | Issue 494
I know a guy whose wife fell in love with another man. She told him about it first thing in the morning on a summer day. She then went to start the coffee. What did you do? I asked. Just lay abed, he said, listening to her puttering in the kitchen. Everyone thinks that awful comes by itself, but it doesn’t. It comes hand in hand with normal. No one talks about this. You’re watching the basketball game when the phone rings and you find out your grandfather didn’t wake up this morning.
Dawn And Mary | By Brian Doyle | Issue 452 | The Sun Magazine
Early one morning several teachers and staffers at a Connecticut grade school were in a meeting. The meeting had been underway for about five minutes when they heard a chilling sound in the hallway. (We heard pop-pop-pop, said one of the staffers later.) Most of them dove under the table. That is the reasonable thing to do, what they were trained to do, and that is what they did. But two of the staffers jumped, or leapt, or lunged out of their chairs and ran toward the sound of bullets.
The Sun Magazine | Some Thoughts On Mercy | By Ross Gay | Issue 451
I WAS IN MY garden, walking aimlessly with sickle in hand, taking swipes at the plantain that had erupted into tiny flower heads or at the blowzy red clover growing in tall thickets and slurped at by bumblebees.
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