Ireland are back where they belong. The Rugby playing world have to take us serious. Beating the tri-nations champions only a month after they beat NZ and during the RWC ranks with the best performance ever. 30 years after Ollie Campbell beat them in the Southern Hemisphere this new bunch of achievers have announced themselves on the biggest stage in the world. The game was a perfect act of defiance and patience built on quality of play and confidence of ability. The biggest call of the day was replacing Reddan with Conor Murray. Reddan was playing the game of his life. He was the conductor of an orchestra in perfect tune. Murray was a risk and apart from one mistake at the base of a scrum he acquitted himself ok. But it’s a tournament not just one game so keeping Reddan fit is vital to Ireland’s cause. Also bringing on O’Gara when D’Arcy got injured was a move he used during the pre RWC friendlies and it came off perfectly. Two out-halves playing side by side and a consumate kicker there to revieve the pressure. Irish eyes were smiling and many generations of rugby followers must have shed a tear. For me it goes all the way back to 1961 in Lansdowne Road when my father and grandfather brought me to my first rugby match, Leinster v NZ. I’m sure they both enjoyed the match and result from their perch in rugby heaven!
Rugby v Australia
About bill
Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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