Farewell to Tadhg. Fair play to you.
The end of an era. Oh, we use that phrase too readily. But today, with Tadhg Kennelly apparently due to announce his retirement from AFL football, an era of my life truly has ended.
I swore, after last night’s wank-fest, to put a moratorium on personal pretentions on this blog for a while, and try to focus more on politics. Parliament is sitting for the first time in 2009 next week, and it will be interesting to check out what is on the agenda.
But Kennelly’s retirement trumps any personal oaths, and so I shall, for the last time, tell the story of how I followed the career of Tadhg Kennelly.
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