Dubliner Ken Doherty upset Scottish world number one John Higgins 6-2 in Saturday's first semi-final.
"He's probably the most formidable player in the world when he is leading, " said the Dubliner.
In return, I did take them out for a pint at the Dubliner here in Washington, D.
The Dubliner played nine practice holes on Wednesday but said the pain of walking was too much.
Ken Doherty suffered a 4-3 opening loss to fellow Dubliner Michael Judge, having at one stage led 3-2.
The Dubliner's par at the first extra hole earned victory after both Hamill and McGrane had missed the green.
The devastating cross-examination by fellow Dubliner and contemporary Edward Carson destroyed Wilde, leading to his later prosecution and imprisonment.
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Ian Hutchinson from Yorkshire was third with Dubliner Martin Finnegan fourth.
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Dubliner Paul Griffin out-pointed Bulgarian Wladimir Borov in a featherweight contest while US-based Irishman Oisin Fagan beat Jeff Thomas to win vacant Irish light welterweight title.
Ms Enright, the fourth Irish writer to win the prize, is a 45-year-old Dubliner who has written three previous novels, short stories and a work of non-fiction.
The place has its eccentricities, what with the von German ownership now relying on the love of the wilds discovered by a transplanted Dubliner, the manager Michael Wade.
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Montgomerie gambled on the 39-year-old Dubliner as one of his three captain picks, ahead of more conservative options such as world number seven Paul Casey and Justin Rose.
The Dubliner has not won a Ryder Cup match since 2004, admitting that his two major wins in 2008 had affected his hunger for the event at Valhalla.
The Dubliner has scored 45 goals in 104 appearances for the Republic of Ireland, who face Macedonia on 26 March and then Uruguay in a friendly on 29 March.
Currently running in Dublin, A Trinity of Two, written by Ulick O Connor, stars Dubliner and Hollywood star Patrick Bergin as Carson, and Fermanagh actor Adrian Dunbar as Wilde.
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"It's really disappointing because I was hoping to go all the way, " said the Dubliner, who could now lose his position at the top of the European Order of Merit.
The 35-year-old Dubliner, looking to become the first Irish winner since John O'Leary in 1982, admits winning his national open is second in importance only to the four major championships.
Also through to the last 16 stage is Chinese prospect Liu Song, who beat Dubliner Joe Delaney but Matthew Stevens is out despite beating Dave Harold 4-1 in his final group game.
The Dubliner played for England in the 2007 World Cup and under International Cricket Council rules he should be unable to switch allegiance back to the country of his birth until April 2011.
After slipping to 44 in the rankings, the Dubliner is determined to return to the world's top 16 and now has to overcome two-time world semi-finalist Swail to guarantee his spot in the televised stages.
The Dubliner began his two-wheel career by competing in motocross, cultivating a spectacular style of riding that would go on to thrill many thousands of fans when he moved on to his first love, real road racing.
Harrington had withstood a front nine charge from Woods, who went out in five-under 30, but the Dubliner made a series of hashed shots on the 16th, culminating in hacking his fourth from the greenside rough into the water.
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