I am so very happy today.

Ok, in simple words I am DELIGHTED. Some of you may sigh when I give the reason for this unbelievable jump-up-and-down punch-the-air happiness but I don't care, I have a semi-legitimate reason to be happy and I'm going to go with it.
First a basic Irish geography lesson.
This is a map of Ireland. The country is divided into four provinces, Ulster, Munster, Leinster and Connacht.
These provinces are subdivided into 32 counties as shown below.
Northern Ireland is made up of six of the counties in Ulster with the remaining 26 forming the republic of Ireland.
I live in Cavan, one of the three counties In Ulster which are not in northern Ireland. (It's the southernmost county in the purple part.)

Anyway, this is a story about rugby. There are four professional rugby teams in Ireland, the four provinces. this is a little bit controversial because the professional teams in England and France etc are in each city. But to be honest, the population of an Irish province is similar to one of their cities. (around one million).
So I support Ulster.

In recent years the European Cup has been dominated by Munster and Leinster. Which is great for Ireland, especially cos we're one of the smallest countries. But Ulster and to a greater extent Connacht have been somewhat overlooked and ignored by media because they're not as good. (Also they're the least populous of the four and have the least media power but you know, whatever.)
Anyway, yesterday in the final eight of the European Cup Ulster were playing away to Munster (who have the best home record in European Cup history) and we won. Against all odds, we won. In the first 20 mins we went 19-0 ahead. And even though Munster threw everything they had at it, we held on to win 22-16. It was special. So the final four match against Edinburgh is at the end of the month in Dublin, I really want to be there.

I know that was probably a boring post to most but yeah... it mattered to me I guess.

DFTBA
Adam

P.s. Kate I was thinking about that thing you said about your friend learning an Irish accent. I've heard of other people who really wanted to do that, it seems a bit weird to me. :P I was just interested to know how she's 'learning' it. Cos the accents around Ireland vary so drastically that there isn't just one definitive 'Irish' accent. And I'm yet to hear a good Irish accent in a foreign film.....
Best:Colin Farrell (obviously) Worst:Tom Cruise by a mile

Had to show this, brilliant. My favourite comedian :)