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Well there was a great turn out for the annual spit fada competition here in the village after Mass last Sunday. There was fierce practising going on Saturday and large amounts of cheese and Guinness were being consumed to improve spit viscosity and projection, as well as vast amounts of water to counteract the concentrating action of the cheese and the dehydrating action of the alcohol. The winner this year was Pa Murray for the second year running. He managed to cast a spit 25 feet using a variant of what he calls the ‘long throw-in technique’ used by soccer players, which involves running up to the spitting line with his arms clasped behind his head, and then bending right back from the waist before catapulting his upper body forward.