Colin Sheridan: Appreciate our resilient college kids, the promise of a better tomorrow
Michael Murphy gives a hand getting the pitch ready ahead of the Electric Ireland Higher Education Sigerson Cup game between ATU Donegal and DCU Dochas Eireann this week. INPHO/Evan Logan
There is no rain in the world as wet as the Galway variant. This is not a fact proven by science, but by testimony, from every student that has ever laced a pair of Converse and walked the Quincentennial bridge. From every tourist from deepest Wisconsin who has alighted a bus at Jury’s, innocently ignorant to the elements, hopeful for a dry look at Nora Barnacle's cottage. From every Spanish interloper who came to the west, greener than a Leitir Mealláin field, but left cynical, and very, very wet, longing for the heat of San Sebastian.
When it rains this hard in Galway, it is as if God himself has turned the Atlantic ocean upside down, and emptied it upon the city in an act of biblical retaliation for some bohemian, pagan act. And the wind! It’s been said that the tunnel at the Higgs boson collider was inspired by the experiences of Peter Higgs, the scientist who designed it, who spent a semester in Galway, where he lived above a Vodafone shop, working nights at Javas to keep himself in pairs of dry Converse.
