Rebel gang of four steers Belvedere homeA COUPLE of reactions to the full-time whistle provided a telling insight into what went beforeMon Dec 23 1996 - 00:00
Brandywell clash will be a bit special for DoolinNO bitterness, no grudges, no points to prove; Paul Doolin, returns to Derry City for the first time since his surprise early…Sat Dec 21 1996 - 00:00
Cork City off again on north-west passageGIVEN CORK has spawned a number of club names from Hibernians, Celtic, Alberts, United to, in its current guise, City, a temporary…Tue Dec 17 1996 - 00:00
Galway must cash in on finalNEWS OF Galway United's financial travail is depressingTue Dec 17 1996 - 00:00
Elwood the master for LansdowneMUCH HAS been made of Lansdowne's prohibitive four trips to Limerick in this season's First DivisionMon Dec 16 1996 - 00:00
Tolka Park thriller that ended too soonTO BEGIN with a minor crib, referee Paddy Dempsey curiously brought proceedings at Tolka Park yesterday to a premature end - …Mon Dec 16 1996 - 00:00
No logic to these crazy days of DecemberTHESE crazy days of December? Suddenly teams are banging in four or five goals here, there and everywhere, culminating in the…Tue Dec 10 1996 - 00:00
Brewer's Blackrock already look the partFIRST there was the tricky question of putting this season's club activity (inactivity?) into contextMon Dec 09 1996 - 00:00
Skilful Shelbourne sweep Sligo asideREPETITIVE? Yes. Boring? No. Watching Shelbourne these days is always goodMon Dec 09 1996 - 00:00
Shock win is icing on Kerr's cakeIT takes some reading alright, and it took some doingSat Dec 07 1996 - 00:00
Football's small part in life's big pictureSOME Irish people may look down their noses at the National League, and some National League supporters might regularly have …Tue Dec 03 1996 - 00:00
Bohemians fail to build on early goalA GOOD old battle, and a curious old mishmash of a game, not without its good spells or longeurs, and not helped by wintery conditions…Mon Dec 02 1996 - 00:00
Dalymount derby should be a crackerBOHEMIANS and Shelbourne, fittingly, will have tomorrow all to themselves, for this is more than just match of the day - this…Sat Nov 30 1996 - 00:00
League's oldest rivalry more than "just another game"TWO north west derbies over the last couple of weekends, another couple of Dublin derbies this weekendTue Nov 26 1996 - 00:00
Just like the old days - out of dateWATCHING Saturday's latest Irish Permanent international, the thought occurred that there is something very permanent about Irish…Mon Nov 25 1996 - 00:00
Front men supreme in draw at UCDA MONTH ago Theo Dunne was fond of saying "this was the type of game we would have lost last season"Mon Nov 25 1996 - 00:00
Hail the blueprint for the new rugby manGOD has been good to John Eales, it seemsSat Nov 23 1996 - 00:00
Games to set league alightIT'S been pleasantly unpredictable and interesting enough so far, but this could be the weekend that truly ignites the FAI Harp…Sat Nov 23 1996 - 00:00
Morley on mark in Shelbourne strollTHERE are 2-6 wins and there are 2-0 wins but this was as about as convincing as you can getSat Nov 23 1996 - 00:00
Dundalk sign Markey on loanDUNDALK have signed the Republic of Ireland under-21 international and former Bohemians striker, Brendan Markey, on loan from…Wed Nov 20 1996 - 00:00
Local people should back DundalkQUESTION: Which club has been the most successful in the National League over the last decade? Answer: DundalkTue Nov 19 1996 - 00:00
Tactical reshuffle needed to spark Irish to victoryIT WASN'T a classic and the Irish laboured for more than an hour to put away a far from vintage New Zealand Rugby News youths…Mon Nov 18 1996 - 00:00
Keely stunned by listless displayTHERE HAVE, unusually, been a few back to back wins this weekend in the National League, but whatever chance you have of putting…Mon Nov 18 1996 - 00:00
Media get mixed up with the real storyIT'S all starting to get faintly ridiculous reallySat Nov 16 1996 - 00:00
Students gets lesson about that crucial first goalFIN THE overall scheme of things, this result could be fairly importantMon Nov 11 1996 - 00:00
Iceland freeze out RepublicTHAT was pretty bad. The crowd knew it, everybody knew it and, most of all, the players knew it. Damn it.Mon Nov 11 1996 - 00:00
Shelbourne get past useful DundalkSHELBOURNE got there in the end thanks to another back to basics, solid performance but, my, how Dundalk made them work for it…Sat Nov 09 1996 - 00:00
Breen's stepping stones to successFOUR years ago, Maidstone went bust and Gary Breen became available to any interested clubsSat Nov 09 1996 - 00:00
Put money into facilities says CotterillWITH more time on his hands for reflection these days, the former Sligo Rovers manager Steve Cotterill returned from his daily…Tue Nov 05 1996 - 00:00
Sligo talk to O'RiordainMAINTAINING their policy of bringing in ambitious young managers from across the Irish Sea, the Sligo Rovers board of directors…Tue Nov 05 1996 - 00:00
Leinster victory comes with regretsSO IT was that an Irish side required four games to deliver their most complete performance of the competitionMon Nov 04 1996 - 00:00
Sligo send bohemians spinning in second halfHOW the mighty fall. In truth, Bohemians' flyer of a start was probably no more misleading than the current run of one point …Sat Nov 02 1996 - 00:00
Part time mentality still abounds in National LeagueSOME things change and somehow everything stays the sameTue Oct 29 1996 - 00:00
A sleeping giant walking up fastNOT SO long ago, the Leinster interprovincial party were staying in a Limerick hotelSat Oct 26 1996 - 01:00
Shelbourne let is slip at TolkaFOR 40 minute's at a rainswept Tolka Park last night, Shelbourne's season seemed to be up and runningSat Oct 26 1996 - 01:00
Keen edge in Galway tieWHILE all around them carry on as normal, Galway United and Athlone Town seem to be having their own private competition this…Tue Oct 22 1996 - 01:00
O'Neill cautiously optimistic as UCD threaten a second comingUCD may find themselves with the youngest team in the leagueTue Oct 22 1996 - 01:00
Geoghegan gets hat trick as Shelbourne go back to basicsTHE top four lose while, first, Shamrock Rovers, then St Patrick's Athletic and now Shelbourne all winMon Oct 21 1996 - 01:00
Bohemians fall to revived RoversSHAMROCK ROVERS have had a crippled look to them this season but one visit from leaders Bohemians was as good as any to a doctor…Sat Oct 19 1996 - 01:00
Leinster pay the highest price for spurned chancesA SCORELINE that tells so many lies, yet also tells a few home truthsThu Oct 17 1996 - 01:00
Backward step for domestic footballIN deciding, by 14 votes to six, to expand the National League Premier Division from 12 clubs to 16 from 1998-99, the great wise…Tue Oct 15 1996 - 01:00
Leinster stage classic second half collapseTHERE wasn't a hole big enough for Leinster to dive into after another shocking Saturday in Stradey Park, though they managed…Mon Oct 14 1996 - 01:00
St Patrick's are on the march againFITTINGLY, for a battle between two under achieving powers of the domestic game, one decisive blow decided itSat Oct 12 1996 - 01:00
FAI faces crisis over refereesPROMPTING what could be one of the biggest crises in Irish refereeing history, the FIFA qualified referee Joey Byrne yesterday…Thu Oct 10 1996 - 01:00
Famine gradually becomes a feast for McLoughlinTIME was when Alan McLoughlin might have heard a fellow member of the Irish squad bemoaning a propensity for acquiring splinters…Wed Oct 09 1996 - 01:00
