World of Politics with Harry McGee

I don’t know when scramblers first became part of the Irish motorbike scene. I can certainly remember them during the eighties, when I was a teenager, first being used off-road and later on the road by a couple of older teenagers in Galway. My memory is that most of them seemed relatively small, about 125cc, no more than that.

Anyway, fast-forward about 20 years. By then, I was working in Dublin and at the time, I was playing a bit of weekend soccer in one of the lower divisions of the Dublin........

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