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Giles off to Australia but hopes to be fit for championship

As Meath prepare to host Derry in this Sunday's National Football League encounter in Navan, their All Star forward Trevor Giles…

Tue Feb 23 1999 - 00:00

Selector banned for six months

The Laois hurling team were last night thrown out of the Walsh Cup final and, along with Dublin, fined £1,000 by the Leinster…

Tue Feb 23 1999 - 00:00

The beauty of Keith's pale smile

Ah, the incomparable beauty of a Keith Wood smile

Mon Feb 22 1999 - 00:00

Brady's adventure continues

The weekend they felled Corofin was a very Connacht affair

Thu Feb 18 1999 - 00:00

Dublin hearts given a lift

Valentine's Day and the Gaelic games season breathed anew, with county grounds filling up for the business end of the league …

Mon Feb 15 1999 - 00:00

Hoist upon our very optimism

Begrudgery and innate pessimism feature among the traits most treasured in this bristling little country of ours, and for many…

Mon Feb 08 1999 - 00:00

Finding unity free from stress

Stan Collymore, of all people, set the tone for what was a most auspicious sporting weekend

Mon Feb 01 1999 - 00:00

Tolka hold their nerve

Dublin basketball erupted yesterday afternoon in the National Arena when emerging city club Tolka Rovers dethroned the Avonmore…

Mon Feb 01 1999 - 00:00

Notre Dame coolest of all

In the end, the tournament hinged on the spin of the ball

Mon Feb 01 1999 - 00:00

Vincent's veterans prove their worth

No classic at the National Basketball Arena last night, but no refuge for those with pacemakers either

Sat Jan 30 1999 - 00:00

THE STORY SO FAR

Although Jody Morrissey fisted a floating ball past Mick Pender in the third minute of this tie, the Dublin side dominated thereafter…

Sat Jan 30 1999 - 00:00

US date for Rules shelved

Tentative proposals to stage one of this year's International Rules games between Australia and Ireland in America have been …

Fri Jan 29 1999 - 00:00

Quinlan back for Eire Og

Eire OG and Kilmacud Crokes have both made one change to the teams which lined out against one another in the drawn Leinster …

Fri Jan 29 1999 - 00:00

Contrasting legends hit screen

The domestic news bulletins devoted an unprecedented chunk of air time to American sports personalities last week, an aberration…

Mon Jan 18 1999 - 00:00

Wardy's words add to day of bliss

Ah, it was a day of bliss all right and one aspect of the occasion stood alone

Mon Jan 11 1999 - 00:00

Cavan players hit back with all guns blazing

The majority of the Cavan senior football panel last night denounced Liam Austin's interpretation of the events which precipitated…

Fri Jan 08 1999 - 00:00

Selector turns up heat on Austin

In a further development in the Cavan management saga, Martin Lynch, who served as a selector under Liam Austin, has expressed…

Fri Jan 08 1999 - 00:00

Austin denies leaking story to media

Liam Austin, who resigned as manager of the Cavan football team on Wednesday, has said that he did not disclose details of an…

Fri Jan 08 1999 - 00:00

No island hoppin' for Fidel

BBC 2 centred their Cuba Night presentation around an Arena programme which purported to examine the history of baseball on the…

Mon Jan 04 1999 - 00:00

Please switch off occasionally

So, here we are, on the cusp of the millennial age, with the prospect of infinitely more channels pushed by more buttons promising…

Mon Dec 28 1998 - 00:00

Doonbeg have Connacht date

With Clare side Doonbeg emerging as Munster club football champions, the line-up for the All-Ireland semi-finals in February …

Tue Dec 22 1998 - 00:00

RTE will show 24 live games in summer

The GAA and RTE have announced that 24 senior hurling, football and camogie Championship games will be broadcast live next summer…

Tue Dec 22 1998 - 00:00

When the grieving has to stop

The most remarkable fact about the last ever transmission of Channel 4's Under the Moon was the statistic that the format had…

Mon Dec 21 1998 - 00:00

Munster replay on as scheduled

Sunday's Munster club football final replay will go ahead as scheduled in the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick

Fri Dec 18 1998 - 00:00

Clare players back criticisms of press

Michael McNamara, the senior trainer for Clare, says that a report for this weekend's county convention which criticises the …

Thu Dec 17 1998 - 00:00

Munster replay to go ahead on Sunday

The Clare County Board yesterday moved to bring their annual convention ahead to Saturday in order to accommodate the Munster…

Tue Dec 15 1998 - 00:00

Winter's tale of joy for Rathnure

Steam bellows from the Rathnure dressing-room and it seems as though the entire parish crowds around the narrow door, for warmth…

Mon Dec 14 1998 - 00:00

Pitching up slapstick, pantos and replays

Rarely can thoughts of summer have been more distant than yesterday when, on drenched and lethal fields, the finest clubs in …

Mon Dec 14 1998 - 00:00

Rathnure cope better

In years to come, the storytellers will summon precious few epic yarns of high drama and silken flourishes from the bones of …

Mon Dec 14 1998 - 00:00

Living the World Cup dream

Not unpredictably, last night's glitzy, schmoozy in-house annual BBC 1 sports bash dwelt with unabashed narcissism, on the prettier…

Mon Dec 14 1998 - 00:00

Ghosts of Empire linger on

Any doubts that the sporting year would pass without reflection on England's epic World Cup defeat against Argentina were spectacularly…

Mon Dec 07 1998 - 00:00

Offaly's seven shine brightest

The three Clare hurlers who line out with St Joseph's Doora-Barefield in the Munster club final tomorrow have each been honoured…

Sat Dec 05 1998 - 00:00

Saturday solution to streamline programme

All-Ireland champions Offaly will face Galway in the first round of the 1999 Church and General Hurling League, which has scheduled…

Fri Dec 04 1998 - 00:00

Browne is Tipperary's lone star

Eleven players who competed in September's All-Ireland football final have been selected on the Eircell 1998 All Star Football…

Thu Dec 03 1998 - 00:00

Fitzgerald is back in attack for Kerry

Maurice Fitzgerald returns to the Kerry attack as they look to conclude the year by improving their mid-table position in lowly…

Thu Dec 03 1998 - 00:00

The little book of Celtic cliches

When Steve Rider and the rest of the Grandstand boys come to Dublin on international rugby weekends, you know that they have …

Mon Nov 30 1998 - 00:00

Cork's young braves successfully raid north

Cork justified the tedium of a long trip north by manfully wrestling two useful points from Donegal in Ballybofey yesterday, …

Mon Nov 30 1998 - 00:00

Ireland gone to the doggies

Following sport on television can be a joyless, exploitative pursuit, but this weekend was particularly sadistic.

Mon Nov 23 1998 - 00:00

Monaghan won't shy away from a title

On Wednesday night, the footballers of Monaghan hooked up at Rooskey and ran themselves into the ground, still hurting after …

Fri Nov 20 1998 - 00:00

TV3 present tough opposition

Wednesday night's soccer international between Yugoslavia and the Republic of Ireland marks something of a watershed for domestic…

Mon Nov 16 1998 - 00:00

Galway's grace beats pressure

At times this enthralling match flared with more emotion than might be deemed proper for a pale November Sunday skirmish in the…

Mon Nov 16 1998 - 00:00

Clane nominated to represent Kildare

The Kildare County Board have nominated current county champions Clane to participate in the Leinster club football championship…

Thu Nov 12 1998 - 00:00

Kildare get same as Galway

All-Ireland champions Galway and defeated finalists Kildare feature heavily in the 1998 Eircell GAA All Stars football nominations…

Thu Nov 12 1998 - 00:00

Beeb dig beneath football soap

It is more or less possible now to while away your entire life by following the drama and tragi-comic sagas of the Premiership…

Mon Nov 09 1998 - 00:00

Cribben sole nominee for Laois position

The Clane player-manager Tom Cribben seems certain to be officially declared as the new Laois manager at a meeting of the county…

Thu Nov 05 1998 - 00:00

Clubs reject Council's proposal

A four-hour meeting between members of the Galway County Board, delegates from Carraroe and Corofin - who are due to contest …

Thu Nov 05 1998 - 00:00

Schumy stalls, Naz gets a fright

When the gloves went on, it all started to go downhill fast

Mon Nov 02 1998 - 00:00

Carr's Dublin zip into top gear

Reasons for optimism over the obvious restorative work carried out by Dublin's Tom Carr over the summer must be judged against…

Mon Nov 02 1998 - 00:00

Dublin four in League debuts

Dublin have named four newcomers for their first League game against Tyrone in Parnell Park on Sunday

Fri Oct 30 1998 - 00:00

Offaly to field without Malones

National Football League champions Offaly have named a strong team to face Cork in Tullamore on Sunday, but Roy and Barry Malone…

Thu Oct 29 1998 - 00:00
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