Ireland enjoy some paybackWOMEN'S HOCKEY: IT WILL hardly have erased the pain of losing 4-1 to Belgium in March’s Olympic qualifying final in Antwerp, …Fri Oct 05 2012 - 01:00
Ireland face tough task at BelfieldWOMEN’S HOCKEY: WITH FIVE of the eight-nation line-up above them in the world rankings, four of them having competed at the …Fri Sept 28 2012 - 01:00
We'll be singing 'Jimmy's Winning Matches'TV VIEW: WELL, THAT was very, very lovely, all the more so because it was a whole 20 years in the makingMon Sept 24 2012 - 01:00
Hold the back pageNorman panned for delusions of grandeur: RORY McILROY could probably have done without Greg Norman’s intervention this week, …Sat Sept 22 2012 - 01:00
It was history in the making though without the crowdsTV VIEW: ‘OooooOOoooohhhh,” howled Marty Morrissey and Cyril Farrell in almost perfect harmony, like they were living side by…Mon Sept 17 2012 - 01:00
Hiding the remote control on Roy Keane : Rooney proves he's proper radio rentalALL IN THE GAME : A soccer miscellanyMon Sept 17 2012 - 01:00
Powerhouses have a lot to settle over 60 minutesBETWEEN THEM, Wexford and Cork have won the last seven senior All-Ireland camogie titles, Wexford’s 2007 victory over Cork giving…Sat Sept 15 2012 - 01:00
O man, could you not have got the anthems sortedTV VIEW: AFTER THE anthems, to be honest about it, no more entertainment was required, we’d already got more than our money’…Wed Sept 12 2012 - 01:00
Gold medal shows she's Firth amongst equalsSPORTSWOMAN OF THE MONTH BETHANY FIRTH (Swimming) WELL, THAT was quite a summerWed Sept 12 2012 - 01:00
Should we be relieved, gutted or exhilarated?TV VIEW: Liam O’Neill leads the conga line after blazing Joe shows some pluck with that final puckMon Sept 10 2012 - 01:00
All shuffle in your seats, it's only Germany nextTV VIEW: Bill O’Herlihy, lest we forget, was largely responsible for what proved to be an edgy enough opening 89 minutesSat Sept 08 2012 - 01:00
Hitting the right tone - and missing itTV VIEW: IT WAS a week of extraordinary life stories, but it’s unlikely anyone at the Paralympics came to London with one quite…Mon Sept 03 2012 - 01:00
David, Verne and Gary leave us feeling a little greenEMERALD ISLE CLASSIC : YOU HAVE to say, Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson earn their money, by the end of Saturday’s Emerald…Mon Sept 03 2012 - 01:00
Noren not in nets Hyland €15,000KIERON HYLAND treated himself to a brandy on Sunday night, and never in the history of fantasy sport competitions, you’d have…Thu Aug 30 2012 - 01:00
Blue sky thinking: Cassano switches sides and shirtsALL IN THE GAME: A quick search of the All in the Game archives found one of the lovelier footballing quotes of our time.Mon Aug 27 2012 - 01:00
Donegal may be in a league of their own, but no it's not rugbyTV VIEW JIM McGUINNESS must be dizzyMon Aug 27 2012 - 01:00
Down to the wire at GleneaglesWITH ALMOST 300 players on our list not in action in the penultimate week of the competition, another 70 missing the cut at the…Thu Aug 23 2012 - 01:00
Meadow already outstanding in her own field but June proves to be a bit specialSPORTSWOMAN OF THE MONTH STEPHANIE MEADOW: IT WAS already proving to be a successful summer for 20-year-old Alabama University…Wed Jul 11 2012 - 01:00
They think it's all over . . . it is now with goal-line technologyIT WAS, by most historical accounts, the 1870s when soccer introduced a major technological change that, presumably, left aghast…Fri Jul 06 2012 - 01:00
Just like their anthem, we've no words to describe this Spanish sideVIEW FROM THE COUCH: LIFE’S mysteries: could it really have been 24 days since we were treated to the delights of the Euro 2012…Mon Jul 02 2012 - 01:00
Mario and Obama: White House makes space for starMario Balotelli’s goal celebrations in the Germany game had the world’s wizardly Photoshoppers hard at work – it was hard to …Mon Jul 02 2012 - 01:00
Super Mario abandons the ridiculous for the sublimeVIEW FROM THE COUCH: RIGHT THEN, Germany v ItalyFri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Plane cheek: Bild give Italian 'team' early boarding passesTHE EURO ZONE A SOCCER MISCELLANYFri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Ronaldo out of spot-light in extra scratchy Iberian affairVIEW FROM THE COUCH: BY HALF-TIME Vicente del Bosque looked a worried man, but in fairness, he always does, even when his lads…Thu Jun 28 2012 - 01:00
Shrewd transfers stand to top threeWITH 344 of our players either not in action at the Travelers Championship or, worse, missing the cut and costing their managers…Thu Jun 28 2012 - 01:00
England feel the fickle finger of fate yet againVIEW FROM THE COUCH: THE EVENING had started with Gary Lineker advising his viewers to “feel the weight of history, but do not…Mon Jun 25 2012 - 01:00
Economipolitical kind of thing is all Greek to usVIEW FROM THE COUCH: GERMANY V GREECE and John Giles was joined on the RTÉ panel by Constantin Gurdgiev, his cat, Brian Lucey…Sat Jun 23 2012 - 01:00
Calamitous collapse for KayWE EXPECTED a spot of musical chairs on our overall leaderboard after the US Open, but maybe not quite as many dramatic movements…Thu Jun 21 2012 - 01:00
Liverpudlian Pele proves Roy knows his onionsVIEW FROM THE COUCH: A BIG day for England, then. And the supporters were well up for itWed Jun 20 2012 - 01:00
'Over-the-top' Trapattoni incurs Keano's wrathVIEW FROM THE COUCH: SO, HOW many of you missed the key moments in the Czech Republic v Poland, Greece v Russia, Denmark v Germany…Mon Jun 18 2012 - 01:00
Rain stopped play, and then the real match kicked offVIEW FROM THE COUCH: STORMY WEATHER. And that was just in the RTÉ studioSat Jun 16 2012 - 01:00
Reality check all right but really Roy . . . shut upVIEW FROM THE COUCH: ‘You’ll never beat the Irish,’ the crowd roared, at which point Torres scoredFri Jun 15 2012 - 01:00
Johnson gamble brings rewardRORY McILROY’S double bogey mishap on the final hole at the St Jude Classic last Sunday brought Michael Connolly’s Fantasy Golf…Thu Jun 14 2012 - 01:00
God, or any higher power up there, help usVIEW FROM THE COUCH: DAY SIX, but it’s only felt like 90 minutes, unless you’re Dutch, in which case it feels like the tournament…Thu Jun 14 2012 - 01:00
Play McClean, Trap - ah go on, go on, go onVIEW FROM THE COUCH: IT WAS only Day Five but already tempers were fraying a bit, not just on the streets of Warsaw but also…Wed Jun 13 2012 - 01:00
Not a great start to the olé days it has to be saidTV VIEW: YOU KNOW, it might be best if we don’t qualify for one of these things for another 10 years; it’ll take that long for…Mon Jun 11 2012 - 01:00
All riot, so: Fr Ted fans intercede in PoznanTHE EURO ZONE: A SOCCER MISCELLANY: Photo of the weekend (any weekend), taken during the trouble in Poznan on Saturday night…Mon Jun 11 2012 - 01:00
Messi ruled out for geographical reasonsTV VIEW: The first in a series of columns on television coverage of the finalsFri Jun 08 2012 - 01:00
Kay's Mulligan is not too costlyWELL, WE’D hazard a guess that most of our leading managers are working hard to erase the Memorial from their memory, none more…Thu Jun 07 2012 - 01:00
Very little horse sense from Pat and Joe when it comes to conesTV VIEW: GO ON, own up, how many of you reckoned Joseph O’Brien had timed his Derby charge on Camelot entirely wrong, that he…Mon Jun 04 2012 - 01:00
Jack's VI makes up the groundWELL, IF Ernie Els wasn’t happy with the Wentworth greens last weekend, suggesting they had all the consistency of a bouncy castle…Thu May 31 2012 - 01:00
The feeling of a long hot summer ahead as Joe goes on the attackTV VIEW: IT WAS bucketing down in Monaco while the sun was splitting the goalposts in Thurles, and it’s not often you can say…Mon May 28 2012 - 01:00
Fifa seeks level playing field with plan to dope test refereesREPORTS AND updates from the annual medical conference of Fifa, football’s world governing body, are rarely all that eye-catching…Fri May 25 2012 - 01:00
Hyland succeeds by avoiding dudsTHE STATS are bleak enough: after seven weeks of the competition roughly 22 per cent of our players have actually cost their …Thu May 24 2012 - 01:00
It's Chelsea what did it, and Hosie Boss WingerTV VIEW : AND SATURDAY had started so well too, with Katie Taylor doing her thing and Leinster doing theirsMon May 21 2012 - 01:00
Low lies Tyrone as Leinster win All-IrelandTV VIEW: SITTING ALONGSIDE Paul Wallace and Tyrone Howe on the Sky Sports panel, Sasanach Will Greenwood felt a bit of an interloper…Mon May 21 2012 - 01:00
