Travel Sport Articles published in Three Monkeys Online
Red Card for Racism
A campaign by Ireland's leading sports personalities, Show Racism the Red Card, highlights the role sport can have in integrating immigrant communities in the social fabric of a country. But to what extent does Ireland's sporting infrastructure wel
Lille Farce Churns Out Dangerous What Ifs
Football, it seems, continues to flirt with its dark and dangerous past. At the recent Manchester United vs Lille match on pitch antics and off-pitch violence luckily failed to cause disaster. The 'what ifs', though, loom large.
Sucidava
A chance encounter on the banks of the Danube reminds Horatio Morpurgo that, while the EU prepares to accept Romania and Bulgaria into its ranks, these countries provide a precious doorway into the history of Europe.
Eating spaghetti with Mohammed Ali. A Sporting life with Sydney Hulls.
Sydney Hulls joined the Daily Express as a sports reporte in 1950. During his long and varied career he covered some of the great sporting moments of his times. Focussing particularly on boxing, he met the greats like Sugar Ray Robinson, George For
Twilight of the Idol - Oscar De La Hoya
Oscar 'The Golden Boy' De La Hoya challenges Ricardo 'El Matador' Mayorga for the WBC Light Middleweight title. Padraig McGrath, no stranger to the ring, assesses De La Hoya's chances, and future.
The Screenplay of Relegation
Each year as the football season dwindles, as winners coast home, the media endeavour to stir up excitement over the 'heroic' relegation battles taking place. This year, though, Gerard Fitzgibbon argues that they'll have their hands full generating intere...
Forza Cork City! It's a Love Affair
Cork City have an unofficial fan club in the most unlikeliest of places - Italy. With the thrills of Serie A at their disposal, two football fans from Bologna, tired of polemics, politics, and pettiness decided to go in search of a 'purer football'...
Solo through the 'Keyhole'.
One man meets a mountain. Fred Sengmueller writes light-heartedly about the solitary sport of climbing, and his obsession with the 'Keyhole' in British Columbia's Kokanee Glacier Park....
Roy Keane and the Old Trafford Legacy
Like a replay of Eric Cantona's dramatic departure, eight years ago, Roy Keane's split with Manchester United has left many a 'true red' shellshocked. Gerard Fitzgibbon, himself a Man Utd. fan, offers some sage words and analysis as the club ushers in the...
What the Hell do Ireland do Now?
The realisation that Irish fans were unlikely to be Germany bound for next year's World Cup came sooner to some than others. Now it's official, but where does that leave the national team?...
Thomand Legends - Pat Spillane in interview
Pat Spillane won his first All-Ireland medal for Gaelic football at the age of 19, in 1975. He went on to win a total of eight All-Ireland senior medals, and a record number of All Star awards. A sporting legend, he has since gone on to be a professional ...
The Arsenal Project Coming Undone?
Arsene Wenger has transformed Arsenal since becoming Manager to the North London club in 1986. Gerard Fitzgibbon analyses the current state of affairs at Arsenal, and suggests that along with football purity, Wenger has also been responsible for the eleme...
The Cricket Renaissance - or why cricket has a place in Irish society.
Could Ireland, dominated as it is (in sporting terms) by Gaelic games and Rugby, ever take to cricket? Brendan Coffey argues that the classic colonial sport makes perfect sense. An irreverent glance at the sport convinces him that cricket has a place in I...
Costa Rica: The pilgrimage of a surf-addict
Where do a surf-mad couple choose to go for their honeymoon? For a change of scenery, surf, and temperature, Cristiano Conte and his wife abandon their beloved West Coast of Ireland for the waves of Tamarindo, Costa Rica....
Pictures of Prague
Geography and history, pub crawls and gilded spires clash and collide. Pictures of Prague is not a travelogue, but a poetic attempt to capture one traveller's trip to Prague....
Down under, down under - Scuba Diving in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
A cruise on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia is, for many, the highlight of a trip down under. In this article, regular Three Monkeys Online contributor, the ever intrepid Bill Quigley goes in search of the life aquatic....
The Muddy Confluence - Two days in Kuala Lumpur
Like many travellers, Bill Quigley arrived in Kuala Lumpur as a stopover on his way to Australia. Two days wandering around Malaysia's capital was enough to convince him that it's a place to return to in its own right....
Canadian Camel Trekking in the Rajasthan Desert - a personal memoir.
Haggling, heat stroke, and visions of Laurence of Arabia. All in a three day's camel trekking adventure for Mike Moffatt in the Indian state of Rajasthan....
Barbarians at the Gates - a New Yorker's perspective on the Central Park Gates
One of the major tourist attractions in New York, during February 2005, was the installation work The Gates, Central Park, New York, 1979-2005 by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, where 7,503 gates were temporarily erected in Central Park. Tim Ros...
Formula One - Three Monkeys' Analysis
While two Grand Prixs have been and gone without a Schumacher podium presence, it may look as if the world has been turned upside down. Bill Quigley analyses some of this year's Formula One rule changes, and gives his predictions for the season....
A Cardiff Decider. Six Nations Rugby analysis and predictions.
So far Bill Quigley's pre-season prediction that Wales and Ireland would be the leading teams in the 2005 Six Nations competition have held true. Here he analyses the matches to date, and gazes into his patented crystal ball to predict the overall winners...
Pusher Grannies, Landmines and Lush Vegetation. Laos - a Travelogue.
Laos has the unusual and unfortunate distinction of being the most heavily bombed, per capita, country in the world. Lacking infrastructure, and, some would say, business acumen, it's an unlikely tourist magnet. For those who make it there though, it is a...
2005 The Six Nations Competition - an overview.
The rugby six nations competition for 2005 kicks off in the first weekend of February. Three Monkeys Online sports writer, Bill Quigley, analyses the teams and fixtures, and makes some predictions....
The Men and Gods of Rajasthan - travels in India.
Leaving the chaos of Delhi, Barbara Casolari travels through Rajasthan, encountering nature, spirituality, and the many paradoxes that make up an Indian journey....
The voice of Gaelic Games - Micháel O’Muircheartaigh in interview.
On the occasion of the publication of Micháel O’Muircheartaigh's autobiography, Three Monkeys Online spoke to Gaelic sports' greatest commentator. ...
Ireland's progress. The 2006 Word Cup Qualifiers - France and the Faroe Islands.
Two matches further on, Bill Quigley reviews the progress and analyses Ireland's performance against both France and the Faroe islands....
Racing to stand still. The waning attractions of Formula One.
With the withdrawal of Tobacco Sponsorship imminent, and increasing safety regulations that slow drivers down, giving little chance for overtaking and suspense, what is the future for Formula One Motor Racing?...
The Globalisation of Football
Is nothing sacred? Globalisation has its effects on the world's favourite sport, as Bill Quigley investigates. Far ranging effects, from the changing of the style of national squads, through to the exorbitant wages and pay per view t.v. ...
Nice to be Nasty. Liverpool Vs. Manchester United, the grudge match.
What's a Waterford man doing, going crazy, at the Manchester United Vs Liverpool match at Old Trafford? Getting in touch with his inner psycho? Mark Harkin lets us in to the mindset of a die hard supporter....
The World Cup - Ireland's story so far.
Two games into the qualifying rounds for the world cup, Bill Quigley takes a look at the Irish performance. Handing out praise where due, and a savaging elsewhere, he looks at the squads strengths and weaknesses, and attempts to gaze into the crystal ball...
A pure escape – summer in the Norwegian mountains
While tour operators all around Europe fill their windows with photos of Sun drenched southern shores, Norway offers a refreshing alternative....
In the Shadow of Cotopaxi - the festival of La Mama Negra, Latacunga, Ecuador
In an annual festival, the people living in the shadow of the Volcano Cotopaxi, high in the Ecuadorian Andes, offer gifts to La Mama Negra. Who is the Mama Negra? Is it a Catholic festival? Why are they spitting rocket fuel over the crowd? W...
Made in China
Abigail Schteinman travels from Chinatown, London to the Forbidden City, Beijing, and encounters beautiful monuments, communist capitalism, over-enthusiastic lingerie shop assistants and a whole lot more!...
The Beautiful Game
Escaping the dissapointment of Euro 2004, where so many highly paid stars failed to deliver, Mark Harkin goes to watch the regional final of Europe's oldest, and, some would say most exciting, Field sport - Hurling. Are there lessons to be learned from th...
Kragero, pearl of coastal towns
Kragero, one of Norway's favourite holiday desinations, is situated on the Southern Coast, on the so-called Skagerak Riviera....
