The Celtic Club

For the love of rugby

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March 25th 2009
4.30 am on Sunday morning and Jon and I sit in the Celtic club in Melbourne hoping to watch history in the making; one of the things I miss most about being in Europe is watching and attending six nation matches, those moments when people put aside club grievances and embrace the totality of Irish rugby, when songs born in Connaught, adopted by Munster become the anthems of a nation; although le ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more