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Fran Nolan, cousin of the late Joe Nolan, Bective Club President 2010/2011, has arranged an Anniversary Mass in the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, Sandymount, on Sunday 11th March at 12 noon and all Bective Members and Friends are welcome to attend. |
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Joe Nolan Memorial Kids Christmas Party Sunday 18th December 2.30pm to 5pm – Santa to arrive at 3pm. Tickets €12 per child. Contact Sandra Kealy -
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Heavenly Intervention by Billy Keane |
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Heavenly intervention sparks one of the great comebacks
By Billy Keane
Monday May 23 2011 - The Independent The Northampton captain's housekeeper took the matching sitting ducks from the mantelpiece to make room for the Heineken Cup and the urn containing Leinster's ashes. Leinster were so far off the chase at half-time they couldn't even hear the huntsman's horn. Sexton had a big cranky head on him at half-time. His team spent more time on the ropes than the bum of the month. "I don't want to be remembered as the man who was at the end of the biggest hiding in a Heineken Cup final." Yesterday, he told us he was "totally calm". 'Calm' was said in a calm way as if to emphasise the importance of keeping the head. "I just said, 'this thing can be done'." When Leinster came back out they were more afraid of Sexton than Northampton. The front-row dominated the Saints, so much so that the Northampton front three were substituted long before the end. The men in blue showed courage, daring, ingenuity, intensity and at times controlled recklessness. They ran the ball from so far behind their own lines, one Nacewa attack started out in the field kitchen. |
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From The Irish Times
Saturday April 23rd 2011 It's Blues' to lose but Toulouse need a big one TREVOR BRENNAN’S TOULOUSE DIARY: TREVOR BRENNAN on how life in the south of France is going well and why Leinster will triumph in the battle of his former sides at the Aviva Stadium next Saturday. SITTING ON the terrace outside my new bar La Cantina in Sansubra (the old French, or Occitan word, for St Ciprian) drinking my Perrier and a bowl of ice cream after the lunchtime service, I begin to scribble a few notes on a notepad which has half a dozen lunch orders. It’s not easy, as there are many distractions. It’s 30 degrees, the hottest April they’ve had for many years in France, and then there’s the honking of horns, the siren of the occasional police car or an ambulance whizzing by, and all the lovely ladies who keep emerging from the hole in the ground about 10 feet in front of me. Yes, I did say the hole in the ground. The metro station is about 10 feet from the terrace. I give a few of the old ‘Hooooly Jay-sus’ to myself, take a sip of my Perrier and continue the scribbling. And I think about the friends of mine who were over last weekend to see Ireland Under-18 schools play France in the semi-finals of the FIRA Under-18 European Championship in Auch, which is about 80 kilometres from Toulouse. They stayed in Toulouse on the Friday and Saturday, and sitting over a few pints on the terrace on the Saturday afternoon we reminisced over some of our stories from our playing days and some of the other alikadoos who have since passed away in Bective, most recently Joe Nolan. |
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There was no show quite like the Joe show |
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By Billy Keane
Saturday March 26 2011 Joe Nolan, the president of Bective Rangers Rugby Club, suffered a massive heart attack just a few minutes after the Ireland-Wales game. His friends watched helplessly as a young Irish doctor in a green jersey tried valiantly to revive him, but it was too late. Joe was beyond saving. He died where he fell -- on a Cardiff pavement. Joe's funeral mass took place in Sandymount last Tuesday. It was standing room only. |
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Joe Nolan 