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Draft can prove chill wind for the fragile

Sideline Cut: The NBA first-round draft took place during the week, whereby the 30 most sought-after young basketball players…

Sat Jun 30 2007 - 01:00

Hoping to avoid the bogeymen

All-Ireland qualifier draw comment: It was like Sunday night at the movies in Carrick-on-Shannon for the live qualifying draw…

Mon Jun 25 2007 - 01:00

Connacht preview

Nothing has changed in this time-honoured meeting of Connacht's most gloried football county and the province's hardiest.

Sat Jun 23 2007 - 01:00

Thurles Three saga should end now

Sideline Cut: You cannot beat the hurling world when it comes to civil unrest

Sat Jun 23 2007 - 01:00

Harte's quiet sideline manner a joy to watch

It is always worth watching Mickey Harte on the sideline

Mon Jun 18 2007 - 01:00

Blithe Royals always worry uptight Dubs

Sideline Cut: A tremor of fear must be rippling through many of the vast fraternity of Dublin summer football fans

Sat Jun 02 2007 - 01:00

O'Sullivan gets the heart pounding

Sideline Cut: Obscure sports coaches all over the country will be gratified by several scenes in RTÉ's high-octane and sophisticated…

Sat May 26 2007 - 01:00

Pocketing one's pride an All-Ireland perk

Sideline Cut: If we are to believe what we hear, then most GAA All-Ireland winners like to carry their medals about their persons…

Sat May 19 2007 - 01:00

Carr rues letting chances slip

Down's Ross Carr was renowned for coolness under pressure back when he played on one of the most sumptuous forward units of the…

Mon May 14 2007 - 01:00

Longford v Westmeath preview

With his now trademark powers of recovery, Dessie Dolan has been passed fit to start for Westmeath, despite spending the last…

Sat May 12 2007 - 01:00

All-Ireland glory grand delusion for most

Sideline Cut: As the drum rolls in honour of the beginning of another football championship, so all managers must clear their…

Sat May 12 2007 - 01:00

Oscar's night the only show in town

Sideline Cut: Las Vegas and boxing make up the most lurid and intoxicating of all the concoctions in sport, and late tonight…

Sat May 05 2007 - 01:00

Oscar's night the only show in town

Sideline Cut: Las Vegas and boxing make up the most lurid and intoxicating of all the concoctions in sport, and late tonight…

Sat May 05 2007 - 01:00

League is no joke when you're winning

Sideline Cut: The general attitude to the league says a lot about the contrary nature of the Irish

Sat Apr 21 2007 - 01:00

Boy Ronaldo overstepping his position

Sideline Cut : An awful lot of people seem to have a fierce set against the lad Cristiano Ronaldo, who plays for Manchester …

Sat Apr 14 2007 - 01:00

Walrus swimming against the new tide

Sideline Cut: Watching Craig Stadler rumbling around the fairways during the first round at Augusta brought to mind the old …

Sat Apr 07 2007 - 01:00

Maradona's story might still inspire

Sideline Cut: One of the more troubling sporting headlines of the week reported that Diego Maradona had been rushed to hospital…

Sat Mar 31 2007 - 01:00

Tired old team in need of a shake-up

Group D/TV View: Great teams get old in a jiffy. It is the same in any sport

Thu Mar 29 2007 - 01:00

Howzat for a relic from the distant past

Sideline Cut : Ireland has to conquer twice this afternoon. Beating Wales is an absolute necessity

Sat Mar 24 2007 - 00:00

Cheltenham pilots our mortal superiors

Sideline Cut : Cheltenham must be as good as they say because regular jockeys are tougher than the rest

Sat Mar 17 2007 - 00:00

Coach with no pedigree breeding success

Sideline Cut: No matter how passionately the air of Flower of Scotland is delivered around Edinburgh this weekend, it will hardly…

Sat Mar 10 2007 - 00:00

Keane aptitude should not surprise us

Sideline Cut: There may well be a little bunker in Roy Keane's garage reserved as a burial ground for the various trophies and…

Sat Mar 03 2007 - 00:00

All the lonely people of John Lennon's childhood

Memoir: The Fab Four are a dwindling band of brothers nowadays but their music still effortlessly transcends wave after wave…

Sat Feb 17 2007 - 00:00

Queen's song still strikes a delicate chord

Sideline Cut : The Artane Boy's Band may be busy practising the subtle brass notes of God Save the Queen this weekend but when…

Sat Feb 17 2007 - 00:00

Maybe San Marino showed our true level

Sideline Cut: Immediately after watching Ireland commit floodlit robbery against poor San Marino on Wednesday night, I turned…

Sat Feb 10 2007 - 00:00

Maybe San Marino showed our true level

Sideline Cut: Immediately after watching Ireland commit floodlit robbery against poor San Marino on Wednesday night, I turned…

Sat Feb 10 2007 - 00:00

How many hits can rugby boys safely take?

Sideline Cut: Only when you stand next to Ireland's elite rugby players do you get a true inkling of the sort of brain-shaking…

Sat Feb 03 2007 - 00:00

Fan: a flailing device that blows hot and cold

Sideline Cut: Anyone who feared a gulf had developed between big-time sports stars and their fans probably thought differently…

Sat Jan 27 2007 - 00:00

Glory days make Ali decline more moving

Sideline Cut: As Muhammad Ali celebrates 65 years of a life that has become one of the most glorified of the 20th century, …

Sat Jan 20 2007 - 00:00

Beckham hasn't lost his sense of timing

Sideline Cut:   You cannot teach street smarts, and news of David Beckham's flabbergasting transfer to LaLa Land is the final…

Sat Jan 13 2007 - 00:00

O'Dwyer and Knight peerlessly plough on

Sideline Cut : It would be too much to hope that Mick O'Dwyer, the tireless survivor of Irish sport, will ever meet with Bob…

Sat Jan 06 2007 - 00:00

Tenacious O'Gara reaps a fitting reward

Sideline Cut: It seems longer than just last May since I sat down with Ronan O'Gara in a well-tended country house overlooking…

Sat Dec 30 2006 - 00:00

All sporting life is going down youtube

Sideline Cut : Despite being overwhelmed by the menu of live televised sport, we still find it in our souls to spare an hour…

Sat Dec 16 2006 - 00:00

GAA must make room for Men in White

Sideline Cut : It is high time the GAA began to "big up" the role of the umpire

Sat Dec 09 2006 - 00:00

Cross marks place we once loved well

Sideline Cut:   On Sunday, Crossmaglen Rangers will go for their fifth Ulster title, having ruled the roost in Armagh for the…

Sat Dec 02 2006 - 00:00

Modern Clare great looks to parishes

Opening of Michael Cusack visitor centre: With the rain whipping across the Burren and one voice addressing the sheltering crowd…

Wed Nov 29 2006 - 00:00

Thorpe's exit as stylish as his entry

Sideline Cut: It is tough for the sport of swimming to breach the global headlines in the years between Olympiads, but the …

Sat Nov 25 2006 - 00:00

Sports fans can be an unforgiving lot

Sideline Cut: Professional sport glides along so smoothly and looks so glossy you can often forget the performers are actually…

Sat Nov 18 2006 - 00:00

Perilous times of the Black Pearl

Biography Many compelling voices and stories presenting the austere and often brutally numbing existence of children bound to…

Sat Nov 18 2006 - 00:00

Australia 'fair' has whole other meaning

Sideline Cut: As the dust settles on the latest International Rules disaster, the no-bluster words of Kevin Sheedy, legendary…

Sat Nov 11 2006 - 00:00

Series a catalyst for strange phenomena

Sideline Cut: Wish we knew why Martin Sheen was in the crowd for the International Rules in Galway last Saturday night

Sat Nov 04 2006 - 00:00

Weekend previews

This weekend's action

Sat Nov 04 2006 - 00:00

A daft game that compromises everyone

Sideline Cut: Thank God for Mickey Harte

Sat Oct 28 2006 - 01:00

Fond memories of the Fighting Irish

Sideline Cut : In Manhattan on Thursday night, something of the spirit of the fighting Irish was raised

Sat Oct 21 2006 - 01:00

Stan shows what sort of The Man he is

Sideline Cut: Imagine being Steve Staunton for the past week

Sat Oct 14 2006 - 01:00

Glimpse of good old days at Lansdowne

TV View: After the longest week, the game seemed to pass by in seconds

Thu Oct 12 2006 - 01:00

Weep not for Mayo; look to yourselves

Sideline Cut: On Sunday last, 82,000 people witnessed Kerry reconfirm their status as the insatiable, deathless winners of the…

Sat Sept 23 2006 - 01:00

All-Ireland odyssey still the rail thing

Sideline Cut: There is a time-honoured tradition of travelling to All-Ireland finals by rail

Sat Sept 16 2006 - 01:00

Loughnane tailor-made for Galway job

Sideline Cut: Loughnane for Galway: it has the ring of the dream ticket about it

Sat Sept 09 2006 - 01:00

Mighty gesture by the mighty Quinn

Sideline Cut : English football would make for duller theatre without its pair of Irish mavericks, Roy Keane and Niall Quinn…

Sat Aug 26 2006 - 01:00
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