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You can't hurl without this, provided it is spelled correctly.
What is a sliotar?
When writing a feature story you want to interview several people for several reasons, including this one.
What is ... lots of sources help to verify the point of the piece ... or several sources mean you can quote the person with the most interesting material?
Will is a big fan of the Chicago Cubs, who won the World Series in 2016, the first time since this year.
What is 1908?
When you write a headline for a news story, be sure to use this kind of sentence structure.
What is S-V-O?
The very last stop on the 39A bus route when traveling from UCD.
What is Hansfield Road in Ongar?
This Tipperary captain was named Man of the Match after Sunday's All-Ireland senior hurling final.
Who Ronan Maher?
The scene-setting lede of the feature story you are writing for this class.
What is ...?
If you take AJ's Oregon volleyball number and multiply it with Gwen's volleyball number -- and then add 10 -- you'll get this number.
What is 34?
You've spotted this mistake in the lede of a news story:
Dublin — St. Patrick's AC tied Bohemians 0-0 Friday night at Richmond Park in a critical League of Ireland showdown for both clubs.
What is the dateline should be all caps?
The spelling of 15 in Gaelic.
What is a cúig déag?
We all know that the GAA competition is county versus county, but the counties come from these four provinces.
What are Leinster, Munster, Connacht, and Ulster?
The part of a feature story that comes after the nut graph but before the kicker.
What is the exposition?
Jack M. is doing his final feature on Irish baseball, a sport that originated from the game of rounders, which was invented in this year. (Hint: The game was invented 22 years before the Declaration of Independence.)
What is 1744?
When writing the lede to a breaking news story, you want to get as many of the 5 Ws into the first graph as possible. And this is the W that should NOT come first in the graph.
What is the when?
The cost of a hamburger at Mikeys.
What is ...?
Tipp, tipp, hooray. Tipperary won the Senior Hurling title this year, one year after this county won it.
What is Claire?
You can't spell feature without an A, and you can't write a feature without these three As.
What are angle, action, and anecdote?
This is the football position Caleb played in high school.
What is center?
When you write 22-year-old player in a story about hurling, you are using hyphens with the age because 22-year-player player is this.
What is a compound modifier?
You can't come to Ireland without learning a little bit about James Joyce, such as the month when Ulysses takes place.
What is June (June 16, Bloomsday)?
The GAA was founded in 1884 by this person, who has a statue outside of Croke Park.
Who is Michael Cusack?
The definition of a nut graph.
What is putting a story in context and telling readers why the story matters/the theme of the piece?
Spell the name of the Irish 100-meter runner Coop and Jack A. wrote about for their Morton 100-meter dash story.
What is Israel Olatunde?
"Ya all are a bunch of terrible players" Daniel Dwyer, Dublin's leading advocate for craic and sport said. "They must be teaching ya tidlywinks at at the UO".
What is you need a comma after players, a comma after advocate, and a period inside the last quotation mark.
Paul David Hewson.