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Thugs who use sport for murder

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CATHAL DERVAN,
Irish Voice Newspaper Columnist
Published Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 1:28 PM
Updated Thursday, July 23, 2009, 5:44 PM

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Celtic jerseys scarfs and flowers, at the scene where Kevin McDaid was killed in Coleraine, Derry.
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An article in Tuesday’s Irish Daily Star caught the eye ahead of a flying visit to London and some engagements with the national soccer team in the build-up to Friday night’s game against Nigeria and next week’s World Cup clash in Bulgaria.

According to my esteemed daily colleagues -- i.e., those who work downstairs in Star headquarters -- Irish people moan for an average of nine and a half hours a week.

Now there’s an idea for a movie. Mickey Rourke may have starred in the great 9 1/2 Weeks, but I reckon I’d do a brilliant job in the lead role for 9 1/2 Half Hours a Week – the Movie.

Those who know me, or those who acknowledge they know me, will tell you than I can indeed moan for Ireland. Mention any subject from soccer to cricket and I’ll manage to raise a moan, often before I’ll even raise a smile.

It is, after all, a national past-time. We are the nation who can find the bad in anything good, the questionable in the laudable and the downright outrageous in the brilliant.

Now approaching my 30th year behind a typewriter -- I’m old enough to have used one -- or a computer, I have a master’s degree in cynicism and a higher diploma in criticism.

If anything, I’d say I could moan for more than 9 1/2 hours in an average week. I could probably even give Rourke a run for his money and moan for weeks and weeks -- though not the sort of moans Mickey inspired in Kim Bassinger back in 1986 when I was still covering junior hurling matches in the Royal County of Meath.

So let’s put this theory to the test. What can I moan about this week in the hallowed pages of the Irish Voice?

I’m going to start with a bad news story. On the same Tuesday morning that I came across the story about our national penchant for moaning, I listened intently to a report from the North on Morning Ireland, that well known RTE Radio breakfast show.

The story was horrific, concerning the death of a 49-year-old Catholic by the name of Kevin McDaid in the town of Coleraine on Sunday evening.

Kevin’s sin, according to the nine Loyalist thugs who literally beat him to death, was to be a Catholic and a Celtic fan on the day their beloved Rangers won the Scottish League title.

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