Irish bars Archives - This Drinking Life A world of alcohol and fun Sun, 25 Aug 2024 17:06:37 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 62332568 Winterthur, Swiss football away days 12 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/winterthur/ https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/winterthur/#respond Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:19:06 +0000 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/?p=16183   Back in Switzerland for a week or two, I decided to take the opportunity to do another Swiss football groundhop for my blog. I managed to get a game in the city of Winterthur to see the local team play against FC Vaduz. I also planned to get a hike in the morning, climbing […]

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]]> https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/winterthur/feed/ 0 16183 Shelbourne F.C, football away days https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/shelbourne-fc/ https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/shelbourne-fc/#respond Mon, 23 Dec 2019 11:18:58 +0000 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/?p=12147 STOP PRESS In between writing up my trip, Shelbourne got promoted to the Irish Premier Division for the 2020 season. Well done to Ian Morris, in his first stint as a manager, for getting the old club back to its rightful position amongst the top gods of Irish football. Credit is due to the fact […]

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]]> https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/shelbourne-fc/feed/ 0 12147 Lucerne, Swiss football away days 10 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/fc-luzern/ https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/fc-luzern/#respond Sat, 27 Jul 2019 12:26:43 +0000 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/?p=11600 The beautiful city of Lucerne (German: Luzern, French: Lucerne), was to be the next destination on my Swiss football groundhop. The German speaking city, the gateway to central Switzerland as they say, is pretty much smack bang in the middle of the country, with a population just over 81,000 people. Lucerne is the capital of […]

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]]> https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/fc-luzern/feed/ 0 11600 St Pats, football away days https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/st-pats/ https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/st-pats/#respond Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:45:31 +0000 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/?p=11565 My football day trip this time was to be a little different. Rather than head straight to the pub for a day of drinking and having the craic and then finish it off with some football, this time I was to shake the day up a bit by including some more cultural and creative pursuits. […]

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]]> https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/st-pats/feed/ 0 11565 Athlone Town, football away days https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/athlone-town/ https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/athlone-town/#respond Tue, 11 Jun 2019 07:46:40 +0000 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/?p=11442   So off on another League of Ireland ground-hop, into the Midlands this time to see Athlone Town, from the county of Westmeath and into the heart of Ireland.  Athlone town (“The town of Luan’s ford” in Gaelic) with a population of about 21,000, is sitting proud on the great majestic River Shannon, the longest river […]

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