Organised Banner reaping the rewards for the systematic nurturing of underage talentFrom 2000-2007 Clare hardly won an underage game of note – now they are the game’s emerging standard-bearersSat Sept 28 2013 - 01:00
So near and yet so far, but dreams live on in a place that breathes footballThe wait for Sam continues, but Mayo people still have some reasons to be cheerfulTue Sept 24 2013 - 01:00
Dublin hold on to break Mayo hearts againOn a stunning autumn day in Croke Park the local boys finished the season as they startedMon Sept 23 2013 - 09:55
How many times can they walk away and find new ways of dealing with the same old hurt?Mayo defender Keith Higgins looks back on the chances that weren’t takenMon Sept 23 2013 - 01:00
Real Dubs fans love rural Ireland – they just wouldn’t want to live thereIt becomes difficult to tell real Dubs and half-Dubs apart. It is only on weekends like this the old loyalties re-emergeSat Sept 21 2013 - 14:00
Mayo: A county and a people seeking liberation from pastIt is beyond time for Mayo to free themselves from the ghosts of past defeatsSat Sept 21 2013 - 00:40
Gangsters and Goodfellas: the long journey from Ballyshannon to a New York jail cellOctogenarian Peter Daly lived a colourful life in New York, from NYPD cop to years in jail on drug chargesSat Sept 14 2013 - 01:00
All is quiet in the Kingdom camp . . . too damn quiet, if you ask meMost Kerry people are walking juke boxes when it comes to ballads about dead Kerry heroesSat Aug 31 2013 - 14:00
In New York, the sons and daughters of Mayo prepare to bring it all back home for SamFlights are already being booked for Mayo’s own Croke Park GatheringMon Aug 26 2013 - 01:04
Andy Moran’s steady hand on the Mayo tillerInspirational captain is fully fit again and eager to lead his side into another All-Ireland finalSat Aug 24 2013 - 01:26
Much-maligned Tyrone still a force to be reckoned withThey may not be the most popular team but Mickey Harte’s men still possess the hauteur and class of former championsSat Aug 24 2013 - 01:00
Manning gets 35 years for passing US files to WikiLeaksQuestions remain as to how former army private had access to military intelligenceThu Aug 22 2013 - 01:00
Manning’s legal team to seek pardon from ObamaWhistleblower to argue he acted out of love for country and duty to othersWed Aug 21 2013 - 22:00
Dunne accused of stonewalling during US bankruptcy hearingJudge told of significant bankruptcy case involving $630m of unsecured debtTue Aug 20 2013 - 22:59
So why aren’t you managing the Spurs, then?Anyhow how hard can it be to manage an elite football team?Sat Aug 17 2013 - 13:00
NSA breaches privacy of thousands of US citizensSnowden-leaked NSA audit shows 2,276 instances of unlawful surveillance in a yearSat Aug 17 2013 - 01:00
Bloomberg bequeathes mixed legacy to New YorkersMayor’s stop-and-frisk policy a delicate issue for would-be successorsSat Aug 17 2013 - 01:00
The man who transformed Liverpool in his own imageRed or Dead is a moving story about Bill Shankly, his era, and the club he builtSat Aug 10 2013 - 01:00
The foul and the furyThe GAA embodies some of the best aspects of Irish life, but also many of our imperfections. Sean Cavanagh’s tackle last weekend was a reflection of our national ambivalence towards rulesSat Aug 10 2013 - 01:00
Dawn Upshaw’s trajectory: no airs or gracesDawn Upshaw has had a stellar opera career but she’s not in the business of making the music rarefied and is just as likely to be heard humming BeyoncéFri Aug 09 2013 - 01:00
Mayo diaspora’s thoughts turn to September glorySwashbuckling display fills the emigrants with hope that this could finally be The Year for Mayo footballMon Aug 05 2013 - 06:00
Exchange of honest managerial opinions whets the appetite for massive Mayo/Donegal clashMcGuinness’s and Horan’s views a refreshing change from the usual bland statementsSat Aug 03 2013 - 13:00
Philipp Meyer: a cautionary tale in the heart of a historyPhilipp Meyer’s second novel is a sturdy Western and a portrait of the violent clashes and land clearances that facilitated the rise of the US. It poses the question, what is that country about?Sat Aug 03 2013 - 01:00
Aidan O’Shea finally moves from minor part to leading roleA star at underage level, O’Shea has finally found his feet as a senior with MayoSat Aug 03 2013 - 01:00
New York GAA marching to the beat of their own unique drumArrival of some intercounty players in the summer doesn’t change the basic equation for those promoting GAA in the Big AppleSat Jul 27 2013 - 01:00
Home thoughts from abroad on the All-Ireland championships‘A lone Donegal fan was in an empty carriage and had his head in his hands. He cut a forlorn figure. Who says nobody cares about the provincial championship?’Sat Jul 27 2013 - 01:00
If you haven’t hit Clones on Ulster final day, sure you haven’t livedMonaghan on home soil taking on All-Ireland champions Donegal is an occasion of unique pomp and grandeurSat Jul 20 2013 - 11:00
Zimmerman trial verdict sparks protestsAcquittal of George Zimmerman reverberates across the USMon Jul 15 2013 - 08:11
Without even drinking from a World Cup, Brazil have a hangoverThere are already rumblings of disconent from South AmericaSat Jul 13 2013 - 12:00
Play-acting a bloody battleThe Gettysburg experience seems to attract all kinds: Gone With the Wind fans, historians, the mildly curious, and re-enactors playing out every step of the battleSat Jul 13 2013 - 01:00
Rugby winds up the loser in Lions side bereft of Captain FantasticIf there isn’t room for Brian O’Driscoll this morning then the game has lost somethingSat Jul 06 2013 - 14:00
Shame of the fighting IrishThe New York riots against Lincoln’s draft in 1863 revealed a deep racism in Irish emigrantsSat Jul 06 2013 - 01:00
Gennady’s sickening hook to the liver takes the fight right out of Matthew MacklinKazakh looks like he could claim many more titlesMon Jul 01 2013 - 01:00
For Aaron Hernandez, America’s game may be all played outHow could a young man whose athletic gifts have made him extravagantly wealthy get caught up in something so bleak and pointless?Sat Jun 29 2013 - 12:30
A public goodbye to ‘incredibly private’ James GandolfiniCast of ‘Sopranos’, from lead roles to cameos, turn out for funeral in New YorkFri Jun 28 2013 - 01:00
Matthew Macklin hopes to make it third time lucky against Gennady GolovkinKazakh packs a punch as his 26 knockouts testifyThu Jun 27 2013 - 01:00
Death, fear and misinformation on Aids cut to the core of 1980s Big AppleAn exhibitionabout the early years of the Aids crisis reflects a period of despairWed Jun 26 2013 - 01:00
Opportunity knocks again for focused Matthew Macklin as he takes on unbeaten Gennady GolovkinIrishman hoping for success in Saturday night’s fight at the Foxwoods CasinoWed Jun 26 2013 - 01:00
As the Heat rises so the TV’s volume is pumped upSport is normally heard in silence in bars in the States, except when something truly big is happeningSat Jun 22 2013 - 11:00
Methodical scrutiny in US of Sean Dunne finances extends to wardrobeDunne finances stripped bare during long day of legal examinationThu Jun 20 2013 - 01:00
Flame transfer celebrates ‘transformational’ John F KennedyKennedy Torch will arrive in Dublin on Thursday on to Wexford by Naval ship for Saturday’s ceremony on the quay front in New RossWed Jun 19 2013 - 01:00
Conor Sammon is happy to learn from the master Robbie KeaneDerby County striker is looking forward to facing a world-class side like SpainTue Jun 11 2013 - 01:00
Trapattoni wants Irish players and team to grow againItalian hopes to right some of the humiliation suffered at the hands of Spain in that 4-0 defeat in PolandMon Jun 10 2013 - 01:00
King James and Miami don’t feel the heat of public affectionLeBron and his team are loathed as they face the ‘boring’ San Antonio SpursSat Jun 08 2013 - 14:00
Sixty years out of IrelandWe talk often of current and recent emigration. But 1950s Ireland also had a ‘lost generation’. What do some of those who left for New York in the mid 20th century think of Ireland today, and do they regret going?Sat Jun 08 2013 - 01:00
London forgotten in ‘Sunday Game’ falloutScale of their achievement in beating Sligo shouldn’t be obscuredSat Jun 01 2013 - 14:00
The abusers who taught the US eliteRupert Murdoch’s son went there. So did a former publisher of the New York Times. But behind the walls of Horace Mann School some of its teachers spent decades sexually abusing pupils. Now, inspired in part by the Murphy and Magdalene laundry reports, the victims are demanding justiceSat Jun 01 2013 - 01:00
