mdingwall
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When the Irish Taoiseach was told to keep his snout out of Scottish football
Going through an old folder of clippings and submitted material for Follow Follow fanzine from around early 2000.
You and I might find some fault in parts of his analysis but his central message was sensible, “Bertie, stay out of Scottish football”.
I “knew” Alan Ruddock from a few phone calls and exchanged emails from the time he edited the Scotsman 1998-2000 - we had a couple of mutual pals from Dublin where he came from.
A liberal Protestant in the truest old-fashioned sense of the word. He amusingly planned I should have a column called “Loyal Life” in the paper - a weekly diary of musing on football, faith and flutes as it were - somehow the idea run into the sands of time and never got going - but not before he handed out a few heart attacks around the editorial table.
He was also the courageous editor of the Irish edition of the Sunday Times when they were engaged in a court battle with Slab Murphy - the Chief of Staff of the Provisional IRA.
Alan died aged just 49 whilst playing for his beloved Halverstown Cricket Club back in 2010.
Going through an old folder of clippings and submitted material for Follow Follow fanzine from around early 2000.
You and I might find some fault in parts of his analysis but his central message was sensible, “Bertie, stay out of Scottish football”.
I “knew” Alan Ruddock from a few phone calls and exchanged emails from the time he edited the Scotsman 1998-2000 - we had a couple of mutual pals from Dublin where he came from.
A liberal Protestant in the truest old-fashioned sense of the word. He amusingly planned I should have a column called “Loyal Life” in the paper - a weekly diary of musing on football, faith and flutes as it were - somehow the idea run into the sands of time and never got going - but not before he handed out a few heart attacks around the editorial table.
He was also the courageous editor of the Irish edition of the Sunday Times when they were engaged in a court battle with Slab Murphy - the Chief of Staff of the Provisional IRA.
Alan died aged just 49 whilst playing for his beloved Halverstown Cricket Club back in 2010.