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Sideline machinations could decide this battle of self-belief

GAA: Kildare v Donegal METICULOUSNESS HAS become a trademark of both managers in the first of the weekend’s All-Ireland quarter…

Sat Jul 30 2011 - 01:00

Understrength champions still a formidable prospect

GAA: Cork v Mayo EVERY SO often, poking fun at the Connacht championship becomes something of a national pastime and this year…

Sat Jul 30 2011 - 01:00

Browne keeping his eye firmly on the prize

GAELIC GAMES: TONY BROWNE will spend the next few days ascertaining the extent of a hamstring injury, but it is hard to imagine…

Tue Jul 26 2011 - 01:00

'We're not apologising to anyone for getting the luck'

ALL-IRELAND SHC QUARTER-FINAL: DALO

Mon Jul 25 2011 - 01:00

Safety net no longer part of the picture

GAELIC GAMES: THIS IS the weekend when they begin to fall like flies.

Sat Jul 23 2011 - 01:00

'We will look to step up because we will need to'

GAELIC GAMES: JAMES HORAN’S stock has risen sharply over his first year as Mayo manager

Mon Jul 18 2011 - 01:00

The kindness of strangers

COMMUNITY: IT BEGAN AS a routine trip to the doctor for the Doherty family

Sat Jul 16 2011 - 01:00

We don't run off cruciates these days

SIDELINE CUT: In the GAA days of yore, a cruciate or hamstring injury could be cured with a dab of a wet sponge, while a melee…

Sat Jul 16 2011 - 01:00

O'Connor recalls past lesson

GAELIC GAMES: NOT LONG after Colm Cooper had made his speech and left the field, manager Jack O’Connor turned his mind to this…

Mon Jul 04 2011 - 01:00

Close call, but Kerry to shade it

GAELIC GAMES: HALT THE pony trap rides and delay the coach tours of the Ring of Kerry until after half past three

Sat Jul 02 2011 - 01:00

Engine room set to provide a spark

GAELIC GAMES: THE DEPTH of the Cork football squad has been rightly noted, but this weekend’s Munster final will offer a stern…

Sat Jul 02 2011 - 01:00

'We kept going and playing'

GAELIC GAMES: IN HIS first year as Mayo manager, James Horan has shown a knack for delivering succinct match summaries

Mon Jun 27 2011 - 01:00

Economics: could do better. Tennis and boxing: much improved. Golf and rugby: excellent

International praise for Rory McIlroy and Ireland is a balm after two years of critiques of our economic buffoonery

Sat Jun 25 2011 - 01:00

The party's over yet it's still part of who we are

SIDELINE CUT: Now that the cash-rich and good times have ended there is a jaded look about the championship this year, but the…

Sat Jun 25 2011 - 01:00

'I think we're as good as anyone'

GAA : EOIN BRADLEY stands on the edge of the field on a day when it all went right

Mon Jun 20 2011 - 01:00

Senna drives memories of a different era

Sideline Cut: KEITH DUGGAN

Sat Jun 18 2011 - 01:00

Mind over the things that matter

Gaelic Games : THEY TELL it like it is in Crossmaglen

Sat Jun 18 2011 - 01:00

Callanan thrilled to get a few scores after lay-off

GAELIC GAMES: SÉAMUS CALLANAN wanders up the narrow corridor holding his modernist man of the match sculpture and is immediately…

Mon May 30 2011 - 01:00

'We stood up for Mickey today'

GAELIC GAMES: JAMES CLANCY stands in the middle of Markievicz Park

Mon May 23 2011 - 01:00

Leinster's strange story has come full circle

SIDELINE CUT: Once derided as the glamorous front of the old school tie network, Leinster are now poised to become the new national…

Sat May 21 2011 - 01:00

A tangled knot of sporting fortune

Beating England is the sweetest success, even when helped by an Englishman to do so The Irish obsess about beating England at…

Mon May 16 2011 - 01:00

The Championship: Who's Who and What's What

The Strong Counties: The same three or four strongholds rich in people, land, tradition, ballads, nicknames, eccentric radio …

Sat May 14 2011 - 01:00

Dublin's hunger can tilt the balance

GAELIC GAMES: SOMETIMES THE prelude can be as important as the big event

Sat Apr 23 2011 - 01:00

Cork ready to sting Dublin

GAA: NHL CORK v DUBLIN CORK ARE in the unusual position on the final day of the hurling league of having nothing tangible to…

Sat Apr 16 2011 - 01:00

Resilient McIlroy the master of his own fate

SIDELINE CUT : IF THIS year’s census throws up some weird figures and conclusions, blame the golf

Sat Apr 16 2011 - 01:00

'Once Brothers' a sad tale not easily forgotten

SIDELINE CUT: The story of how a friendship, forged through basketball, became a casualty of the ethnic Balkan conflict of the…

Sat Apr 09 2011 - 01:00

Cork village takes stand against billing taxpayers for monstrous bank debt

IT HAS not set out to be the most spectacular protest and its immediate effect is to cause minor traffic delays for motorists…

Mon Mar 28 2011 - 01:00

March Madness not the same when Duke exit

SIDELINE CUT: Love them or hate them, and their legendary Coach K – Mike Krzyzewski – US college basketball wouldn’t be the …

Sat Mar 26 2011 - 00:00

Trusted defenders of the Kingdom

AL LIANZ FOOTBALL LEAGUE KERRY: MAKING IT on to the Kerry football panel is an achievement beyond most footballers in the Kingdom…

Sat Mar 19 2011 - 00:00

Johnson's men here in full metal jacket mode

SIDELINE CUT: HATS OFF to Martin Johnson. Not that the big Englishman is all that bothered with ceremony, if memory serves

Sat Mar 19 2011 - 00:00

Galway pass crucial late test of nerve

GAELIC GAMES/Galway 4-14 Kilkenny 3-13: WHEN THESE teams meet, there will be goals

Mon Mar 14 2011 - 00:00

Galviniano mania sweeping the country

SIDELINE CUT: In a time when players have become afraid to say absolutely anything interesting, Paul Galvin’s fashion diaries…

Sat Mar 12 2011 - 00:00

Wahlberg - a new kid that packs a punch

SIDELINE CUT: Big-hearted noisy boxing movies never go out of fashion but the surprising thing about The Fighter is that Mark…

Sat Feb 19 2011 - 00:00

Irish language: not just a Gaeltacht issue

Is Fine Gael’s proposal to make Irish an optional Leaving Cert subject a liberation from schoolroom misery or a fast track to…

Sat Feb 19 2011 - 00:00

Life after the man who was nearly James Bond

It was the show that Des Bishop had dreaded most – the first since his father’s death. How did he feel once it was over?

Tue Feb 15 2011 - 00:00

Knock, knock, knocking on voters' doors, and taking some knocks as well

Constituents pull no punches but Fianna Fáil’s Frank Fahey insists he will not bow out without a fight

Wed Feb 09 2011 - 00:00

Counihan does a Wenger

“I AM not going to do an Arsene on it,” declared Cork manager Conor Counihan, regrettably not in a French accent

Mon Feb 07 2011 - 00:00

The book he was born to write

Christy O’Connor’s account of his 20th year as keeper on the Doora-Barefield hurling team is both love letter and fierce critique…

Sat Dec 18 2010 - 00:00

Time to make an international statement

SIDELINE CUT: Ireland is, as a rule, deeply fond of New Zealand and All Blacks rugby

Sat Nov 20 2010 - 00:00

IRFU can't take supporters for granted

SIDELINE CUT: The popular profile Irish rugby built up patiently and steadily over the past decade can quickly disappear if …

Sat Nov 13 2010 - 00:00

GAA Previews

The weekend's matches

Sat Nov 06 2010 - 00:00

Hotting up nicely in this World Cup Cold War

SIDELINE CUT: IT IS reaching the point where the rigmarole to decide who gets to host the world’s biggest sporting events is…

Sat Oct 30 2010 - 01:00

St Gall's know they have Cross' to bear

GAELIC GAMES ULSTER SFC: ON THE Falls Road, they are hearing what has been coming out of Crossmaglen about tomorrow’s football…

Sat Oct 30 2010 - 01:00

Entrants run whole gamut of emotions as streets of Dublin prove mighty leveller

Everyone who finished the marathon looked to be in the grip of simultaneous agony and euphoria

Tue Oct 26 2010 - 01:00

Red Liverpudlians breathe a sigh of relief

SIDELINE CUT: After a traumatic few weeks for the club and its supporters, Liverpool begin a new era under new owners tomorrow…

Sat Oct 16 2010 - 01:00

Hooter to call time on all that magical mystery

SIDELINE CUT: The hooter is going to rob us of one of the great talking points of an Irish Sunday – injury time in Gaelic Games…

Sat Oct 02 2010 - 01:00

McGahan manages to play it cool

MAGNERS LEAGUE MUNSTER: THE PROFILE of the Munster-Leinster derby may have changed beyond recognition in the last decade but…

Wed Sept 29 2010 - 01:00

Historic chapter in broadcasting at an end

Yesterday’s All-Ireland football final will be remembered as much for Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh’s last commentary as for Cork’…

Mon Sept 20 2010 - 01:00

Steady as she goes the McCartan mantra

ALL-IRELAND SFC FINAL: JAMES McCARTAN is such an unruffled figure it is easy to convince yourself this latest Down surge was …

Thu Sept 16 2010 - 01:00

The win. It was all about the win, says Corbett

All-Ireland Hurling Final: CHAOS REIGNS

Mon Sept 06 2010 - 01:00
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