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during the summer of 2016

This time last year this city and our wee country

experienced a euphoria not witnessed since those

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From the moment Northern Ireland beat Greece on

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planning their French odyssey.

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Travel arrangements were made with match tickets

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important.

It was as if we were shrouded in a big bubble of

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appeared and a Chuckle Brother emerged on the

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Heidi McAlpin (standing) and hubby Ray Allen with the

Victorys from Toronto in Paris, June 2016.

A BIG BUBBLE

OF HAPPINESS…