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All passion spent for Boys in Green

Sideline Cut: Like the old chant goes, you'll never beat the Irish

Sat Oct 15 2005 - 01:00

Thurles waiting for a break

Tipperary SHC final: It is one of the oldest themes in sport, the death of a dynasty

Fri Oct 14 2005 - 01:00

Cork make their case for the defence

Hurling All Stars: Nominations: Cork's watertight defence proved all but unbreakable at the Vodafone GAA All Star hurling nominations…

Fri Oct 14 2005 - 01:00

Few enough laughs in this funny old game

Soccer drama isn't what it used to be. The grand old soap opera of Irish soccer is flagging as badly as Eastenders

Sat Oct 08 2005 - 01:00

GAA must learn from Northern exposure

Sideline Cut : Outside a Dublin pub on Sunday evening last, a tipsy Aughnacloy man took great delight in announcing to a Kerry…

Sat Oct 01 2005 - 01:00

Even Gooch could not wither him

Key man: In the life of Ryan McMenamin, nothing is ever simple

Mon Sept 26 2005 - 01:00

Tomorrow's final has an epic feel about it

Sideline Cut: Those of us privileged enough to hear John McGahern reading in the Town Hall theatre in Galway on Thursday evening…

Sat Sept 24 2005 - 01:00

Key moments

How the game was won:

Mon Sept 12 2005 - 01:00

Scoring prodigy has youth on his side

Galway Player Ger Farragher: In Galway this week, there is a shortage of replica hurling shirts, let alone tickets

Thu Sept 08 2005 - 01:00

Sparkling reflections in the wake of The Master

Sideline Cut: He arrived in the colds of December, 1928, and by the time he passed away on August 27th last, the life and times…

Sat Sept 03 2005 - 01:00

Diffident Hanahoe looks back in languor

Sideline Cut: Watching the regal and vaguely frightening Tony Hanahoe reminisce on the glory days with Dessie Cahill on RTÉ …

Sat Aug 27 2005 - 01:00

Beefy still in wicket form at 50

Cricket interview: Keith Duggan talks to the great all-rounder about family, friends, career and how England needs the drama…

Sat Aug 27 2005 - 01:00

France joust may restore Kerr twinkle

Sideline Cut: The appearance of France at Lansdowne Road looms and without any warning the defining hour of the Brian Kerr administration…

Sat Aug 20 2005 - 01:00

Combative Clare to bring best out of champions

Cork v Clare  Preview The forecast of a Cork-Kilkenny All-Ireland final started long before the present season and nothing the…

Sat Aug 13 2005 - 01:00

Morgan looking forward to reunion

All-Ireland quarter final follow-up: Even as Kerry took the field on Sunday afternoon, Billy Morgan found himself surrounded…

Tue Aug 09 2005 - 01:00

Morgan salutes his heroes

Just like that, they are back

Mon Aug 08 2005 - 01:00

Morgan's latest flames starting to spark again

All-Ireland SFC Quarter-final: Cork and Billy Morgan are back in Croke Park and the only thing that feels wrong is the time

Sat Aug 06 2005 - 01:00

Armagh don't seek love, they seek respect

Sideline Cut: Almost a fortnight after the Ulster final replay, Armagh and Tyrone are coming to terms with the consequences …

Sat Aug 06 2005 - 01:00

United front conceals stormy weather

Sideline Cut: Whatever the truth about the public disagreement between Alex Ferguson and Roy Keane, that the Manchester United…

Sat Jul 30 2005 - 01:00

Listless Wexford fall to Clare

GAELIC GAMES All-Ireland SHC Quarter-final:   Clare 1-20, Wexford 0-12 A good day for Clare hurling but a terribly disappointing…

Mon Jul 25 2005 - 01:00

Ulster serves up a real scorcher

Summer burned through all the provinces yesterday, and, after the broiling GAA grounds finally cooled, the list of championship…

Mon Jul 11 2005 - 01:00

All Blacks dance on an honourable past

Sideline Cut: Will Welshman Gareth Thomas be crazy enough to re-enact the controversial blade-of-grass gesture in front of the…

Sat Jul 02 2005 - 01:00

Continuing story of stubborn resistance

All-Ireland SFC Qualifiers/Leitrim v Meath : No football people gripe less about hardships than the faithful in Leitrim, the…

Sat Jul 02 2005 - 01:00

Exposing mind and body to the ultra test

Extreme Sports Many people idly dream of one day running a marathon but few imagine completing it along one of the earth's polar…

Fri Jul 01 2005 - 01:00

White knights a red rag to All Blacks

Sideline Cut: By Monday morning, Clive Woodward will either be the toast of Fleet Street or its latest figure of ridicule.

Sat Jun 25 2005 - 01:00

Plight of a Kingdom doomed to conquer

Sideline Cut: It is hard not to feel a pang of sympathy for the loyal men and women of Kerry football as they brace themselves…

Sat Jun 18 2005 - 01:00

Rainmaker back to his old tricks

Leinster SFC Semi-final/Kildare v Laois: Although Mick O'Dwyer will always be regarded with great affection in Kildare, the …

Sat Jun 18 2005 - 01:00

Ali's shadow still looms large in ring

Sideline Cut: Although boxing fans of a certain generation pine after the magnificent era when Muhammad Ali was in his prime…

Sat Jun 11 2005 - 01:00

Grafters rather than supermen

Clare v Tipperary: There is a code of conduct on these days

Mon Jun 06 2005 - 01:00

Aristocrats struck dumb by Gerrard heroics

Sideline Cut: No one will ever truly work out how, but on Wednesday night in Istanbul, Liverpool Football Club managed to take…

Sat May 28 2005 - 01:00

'Flagship of the northern fleet'

Ulster SFC/Down v Tyrone: Keith Duggan on why Down's reputation as the aristocrats and radicals of Gaelic football, dating back…

Sat May 21 2005 - 01:00

Shades of Loman at Theatre of Dreams

Sideline Cut: As with athletes, the toughest decisions for sports managers and icons come with realising the right time to leave…

Sat May 21 2005 - 01:00

The night Anfield spoke volumes

Sideline Cut: Had Eidur Gudjohnsen scored with that breath-stealing opportunity 95 minutes into the drama at Anfield on Wednesday…

Sat May 07 2005 - 01:00

Anfield ghosts may yet spook Chelsea

Sideline Cut: Even if Liverpool do somehow conspire to make a last stand against all conventional football rationale and the…

Sat Apr 30 2005 - 01:00

McMahon enjoying a Clare view of the future

National Hurling League Final/Clare v Kilkenny, Monday, Thurles, 4

Sat Apr 30 2005 - 01:00

'Easy to remember day I was elected'

Presidential election: After the high drama of the early afternoon, the presidential election came as something of a shock

Mon Apr 18 2005 - 01:00

Wexford need to find path to goal for victory

Tyrone v Wexford: Portlaoise, Sunday, 2

Sat Apr 16 2005 - 01:00

Armagh in the mood to make a final move

Armagh v Mayo Hyde Park, Sunday, 3

Sat Apr 16 2005 - 01:00

The bar must be raised even higher

Maybe in five years this will be remembered as a time of splendour for Connacht rugby. Or perhaps as just the beginning.

Sat Apr 02 2005 - 01:00

Triple Crown days not to be taken lightly

Sideline Cut: It is fascinating how the public perception of a team can be so terribly altered over the course of one match.

Sat Mar 19 2005 - 00:00

Flashes of genius rekindle some hope

Sideline Cut : Ronaldinho's goal against Chelsea on Tuesday night was the stupendous highlight of 48 hours that made it feel…

Sat Mar 12 2005 - 00:00

Mayo stay on course as hoodoo is broken

NFL Mayo 0-14 Cork 0-11: With each game in this league, the significance of what happened to Mayo in last  September's All-Ireland…

Mon Mar 07 2005 - 00:00

A year has raced by so heavily

Anniversary of Cormac McAnallen's death: Keith Duggan on how emotion alone could not pull Tyrone through last year, and only…

Sat Mar 05 2005 - 00:00

There is a little corner of Ireland still

Sideline Cut: Not having a ticket for the rugby classic in Lansdowne Road last Sunday, I got to see it from the next best place…

Sat Mar 05 2005 - 00:00

Free spirits find common ground

Twenty years ago, when the Irish squad met to prepare for what was considered to be an unpromising season, the instruction from…

Sat Feb 05 2005 - 00:00

Mayo need Maughan and Brady to connect

Sideline Cut: With precious little fuss, the GAA National League season, once the unwanted orphan of the Irish sports calendar…

Sat Feb 05 2005 - 00:00

Clock is ticking on Mourinho's mastery

Impressive as Jose Mourinho's first seven months in Premiership management have been, his most nimble feat has been to restore…

Sat Jan 29 2005 - 00:00

Golden era over but cup still glitters

BASKETBALL/National Cup : On New Year's Day in 1985, Neptune basketball club met St Vincent's of Dublin in the quarter-final…

Sat Jan 29 2005 - 00:00

Dubya's chance to right Johnson wrong

Sideline Cut: On the week that George Bush delivered his inauguration speech on the theme of freedom, American television was…

Sat Jan 22 2005 - 00:00

Meath more binned against than sinning

Sideline Cut : The sound of Seán Boylan complaining so fervently after last Sunday's sin bin smorgasbord in Portlaoise must …

Sat Jan 15 2005 - 00:00
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