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Sat 09 Sep 2009Kicks Off The Coast
ISLANDS FOOTBALL:The All-Islands football tournament pits islands from Arranmore, Co Donegal, to Bere Island, Co Cork, against each other - it mightn't be All-Ireland standard, but the passion is just as strong.
ON AN ISLAND off the western seaboard, a football match is being played. A wind that could slice bacon whips in off the Atlantic. A Government Minister, clad in flapping white linesman's coat and carrying matching white flag (flapping harder still), tramps the muddy sideline.
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