Ireland, Politicians, and Cockfighting Sports

Repost – Gameness til the End Fine Gael think-in: Politicians forced to go to ‘every funeral or cock fight’, says Brendan Griffin Tuesday, September 13, 2016 By Juno McEnroe Political Correspondent Kerry TD Brendan Griffin has warned that local politics is in a race to the bottom, warning that bright people are shunning political careers…

University College Dublin Professor Paul Rouse on Irish cockfighting sports history

Repost “University College Dublin (commonly referred to as UCD) (Irish: An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath), is a research university in Dublin, Ireland. With over 1,480 faculty and 32,000 students, it is Ireland’s largest university. The university originates in a body founded in 1854 with John Henry Newman as the first rector known as the…

Willing Gladiators Not Slaves (Chicken War and Human War)

The following paragraphs were my correspondence with a friend who had a comment to my Cockfighting – Sports and Lifestyle blog draft before I published it. It started as cockfighting and animal use in sports but I really love what I wrote in the end. The phrase “Willing Gladiators Not Slaves” resonates what it is all…