It is very crowded between me, my partner and the GAA but I’ll still be in a pub wearing an ugly bucket hat at 2am next week, watching my partner’s mistress on telly
It is very crowded between me, my partner and the GAA but I’ll be in a pub wearing an ugly bucket hat at 2am next week, watching my partner’s mistress on tellywith an uninterrupted view of the Pacific Ocean. He can watch whales go past the kitchen window and not have to pause his spud peeling to witness their majestic annual migration from Antarctica up to warmer waters to have their babies.
It’s not because he’s an absolute ingrate. It’s because, as good as the panorama is and as many millions as it would take to buy it normally, it’s not the view his heart desires, which is the back of big Irish heads bobbing up and down in front of a pub telly while the All-Ireland final is on. His dual love for Gaelic football and his county saw him take a three-hour round trip by train alone to the closest “actual” Irish pub that was showing the Galway v Donegal semi-final in the early hours of the morning. He sat, stone-cold sober, patiently drinking Red Bulls, and waiting for the DJ to stop and for the dodgy RTÉ Player stream to fill the dance floor with his favourite kind of music – GAA match commentary. I wasn’t worried about him being alone.
I just don’t get it. Nor should I have to, because life is too short to pretend to like a sport for the sake of a man. Plus, at the risk of sounding like the far right, that’s what my partner gets for shifting a foreigner instead of sticking with his own kind: a woman thoroughly uninterested in GAA, the sport he once called the “number one love” in his life in an article. While we were together.
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