Road Bowls. If you’ve never seen it, you’ve got to try it once. It’s a damn sight more difficult that you’d imagine it is. Flinging heavey shot up a country road. I had the pleasure of accompanying a group of Corkmen up a half mile course a few years back. Never seen a group of septugenarians jump so high and so calmly. Apparently, it’s now getting big in Virginia!
Not according to metallurgists Tim Foecke and Jennifer Hooper McCarty whose research has suggested that dodgy Harland and Wolff rivets were at fault for allowing the Titanic’s hull to be ripped apart by the pressure of the iceberg impact. With six of the hull’s chambers exposed to the Atlantic waters, the “unsinkable” ship lasted less [...] read our review »
Ireland is in the middle of a boom – a running boom. Chances are, even if you have never run a step yourself (apart from some painful P.E. classes many moons ago), someone you know has taken up running over the last little while. Road races in Northern Ireland and in the Republic have seen [...] read our review »