Leprechauns Respond to Murray’s Column

“Sure’n that eejit Jim Murray’s gone and done another of his foolish Irish dialect columns, just like he does every year after the Notre Dame-USC game.”

--O’Brien the Observer of the Obvious

“And just what kind of an Irishman goes and lampoons his own?”

--Seamus the Suspicious

“The kind with a lot of class--an’ all of it low.”

--Cleary the Clever

“D’ye think perhaps we could strike a deal with this Murray feller? Get him to agree that he’ll only write one of his bogus-brogue columns in the years when USC beats Notre Dame in football?”

Nelligan the Negotiator

“ ‘Tis a foine idea, but ye’d never sell it to the Trojan faithful. ‘Twould only give their lad an incentive to keep on losing to the Irish.”

Riley the Realist

TOM NESSINGER, the Reader

Who’s Sick and Tired

of Jim Murray’s Blarney

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