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Sports Council Northern Ireland - Organization seeks to develop regional sporting opportunities and raise standards of performance. Features newsletter, event lists, resources, and contact information.
UTV Internet: Sports - Sports news and in-depth analysis of events relating to Northern and the Republic of Ireland.
Ulster Basketball Association - Northern Ireland's basketball governing body with news, league and cup updates, coaches, messageboard and links.
Northern Ireland Ice Skating Association - Information on membership, latest news, grade tests, partners wanted, upcoming competitions and competition results.
Ulster Beekeepers' Association - Links to 9 affiliated local associations. Details of training courses, and a beginner's help corner.
SportsLine - Sports index and results service for Irish rugby, football and Gaelic games.
Northern Ireland Civil Service Sports Association - Includes events, facilities, photos and membership information.
Scouting Ulster - Provides factsheets, event flyers and booking forms. [Adobe Acrobat]
Northern Ireland Provincial Amalgamation Of Racing Pigeons - Includes race program, results and photos.
Mid Ulster Bowls - Features club listings, league tables, fixtures and results, plus history, news and photos.
Northern Ireland Athletics Federation - Governing body of the sport in the province. Includes news, fixtures, results, records, photos, athlete profile and club listings.
Northern Ireland Bridge Union - Includes events, results and club listings.
Royal Yachting Association Northern Ireland Council - Includes club listings, training information, fixtures, results, photos and mailing list.
Sports Institute Northern Ireland - Partnership between the Sports Council for Northern Ireland and the University of Ulster for the provision of facilities, services and expertise for sports people to improve their competitive capacity. Includes details of services and facilities.
Swim-Ulster.com - Includes competition information and club details.
Badminton Union of Ireland - Governing body for badminton in all of Ireland. Includes search feature for Irish clubs, news, events, rankings, results, coaching courses and details, and Irish player profiles.
Ulster Hang Gliding and Paragliding Club - Includes news, photos, video clips, mailing list and member information.
Yoga Fellowship of Northern Ireland - Includes events, contacts for local teachers and membership information.
Northern Ireland Billiards and Snooker Association - Provides news, results, rankings and competitions.
NiMUG - The Northern Ireland Macintosh User Group - Offers swaps, sales, events, and user tips.
Road Bowls Online - Includes news, results, photos, rules, and a history of the sport.
Tenpin Bowling in Northern Ireland - Includes pictures and videos of the national teams, as well as photos and wallpaper.
Triathlon Ireland - Includes a club directory, membership information, calendar and results.
Northern Ireland Bowling Association - Includes news, events, league tables and a directory of member clubs.
Northern Ireland Table Football Association - Includes news, club directory, history and fixtures.
Disability Sports NI - Working to promote equality opportunities for people with disabilities to take part in sport and recreation. Features information about the group, projects, news, and contact details.
RUC Athletic Association - Includes history, facilities, services, events and membership information.
Golden Tee - Information about GoldenTee Fore golf gaming in the province. Includes top scores, game locations, current and forthcoming competitions.
Council of University Sports Administrators in Ireland - Includes newsletters and contact information.
Bruce White - Provides information on yoga classes in Gilford and Donaghcloney.
Awards Link U.com - Website initiated by the President's Award-Gaisce, the cross-border challenge award for young people between the ages of 15-25 years of age. Includes participating groups, photos and contacts.
Sports Council NI - Includes news, press releases and publications.
The Ulster Gliding Club - Detailed information on the club, its facilities and events, and the sport of Gliding, a set of articles by club members, safety information, news sheets, and frequently asked questions.
The Agivey River - Spate river in Northern Ireland with information on salmon, grillse and brown trout fly fishing.
Paul Acheson Summer Sports Weeks - Offers children in Northern Ireland coaching courses in various sports during the easter and summer holidays. Includes details on courses with online booking.
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Recreation and Sports I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard Recreation and Sports Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. -- Katherine Cebrian The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West Recreation and Sports "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot Recreation and Sports Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package Every child is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Recreation and Sports The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney Recreation and Sports "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt Recreation and Sports Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) Recreation and Sports >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous Recreation and Sports blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana Recreation and Sports The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius Recreation and Sports Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Recreation and Sports The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda Recreation and Sports "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca Recreation and Sports If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Recreation and Sports No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Recreation and Sports Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed Recreation and Sports
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