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Monday 11 December 2023 Dublin: 8°C

# Grassroots

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Between hackers and hoggers, life in the AUL
Paul Ring endures the enforced winter break as the weather claims yet more games for Ireland’s Sunday league footballers.
Between hackers and hoggers: life in the AUL
Paul Ring thaws out as his side get back to action. Keep the champagne on ice though.
Between hackers and hoggers, life in the AUL
Paul Ring rolls with the punches as another game is victim to the weather. And we get to hear about THAT goal at last.
Between hackers and hoggers: life in the AUL
There’s no under-soil heating beneath theses pitches. As Paul Ring learned this weekend.
Between hackers and hoggers, life in the AUL: the six-goal thriller
Paul Ring sends one more dispatch from the bottom of the football pyramid. This week his Division Three side are involved in a goal-fest.
Between hackers and hoggers, life in the AUL
In the first of Paul Ring’s weekly diary pieces, we’re introduced to the ‘mighty Buttevant AFC second team’ for the first time. It’s going to be a long season.