Sinn Fein Memorial

Strange how sport doesn't always bring out the sensitive side in everyone. Rugby-mad Irishman Denis MacCann, manager of the Holiday Inn in Glasgow, was at a charity dinner last week where guest speaker Ann Widdecombe, the trenchant Tory MP, asked for questions.
Denis's hand shot up and he asked Ms Widdecombe for her views on the news report that Sinn Fein MP Gerry Adams was to lay a wreath at Croke Park for the 15 Englishmen slaughtered there last Saturday afternoon - a reference, of course, to England's dismal Six Nations game against Ireland.

According to Denis, she eventually saw the funny side and the colour was back in her face within the hour.

Follow up:

Whistle-blower
OUR story about the young lad learning his seven-times table at the Scotland-France rugby match reminds Douglas Hutchison from Kilcreggan of taking his five-year-old daughter to her first rugby match, Glasgow against Leinster.

On the way home she asked how long a rugby match lasted. When dad replied that all rugby games lasted for 80 minutes she replied: "In that case, why is it that when you go to Edinburgh for the rugby, you are away for three days?"
He is still convinced that mummy put her up to it.



Source: The Herald, Scotland