RTÉ pundit Brent Pope declared us ‘the best rugby team in the world’ after Saturday’s slender but thoroughly-merited victory...
Author: Jamie OKeeffe
Bad Driver
Bad Driver
What to make of Tiger’s early-morning brush with mortality – or more accurately mortification? They don’t call her Mrs Woods for...
Not game for a laugh
Not game for a laugh
Typical that Ireland ends up being at the butt end when the joke should be on FIFA and France. Sepp Blatter’s self-serving and...
Cruel hand of fate
Cruel hand of fate
RTÉ’s coverage had ended, and the post-mortem had started on ‘You’re On Sky Sports’. Enough, I thought, and flicked through the...
Delaney asks if ‘fair play’ is just rhetoric?
Delaney asks if ‘fair play’ is just rhetoric?
John O’Shea, who was forced off injured (having started the move for Ireland’s goal), along with unused substitutes Stephen...
Back to basics: It’s about being effective not pretty in Paris
Back to basics: It’s about being effective not pretty in Paris
It’s unlikely that Brian Cowen will have been called upon by Giovanni Trapattoni to help motivate the Irish football team ahead...
Justin’s justification jars
Justin’s justification jars
It would be unfair to simplify the upheaval in Limerick hurling as evidence of Justin McCarthy’s ability to make enemies and...
Tommo was better than his two caps
Tommo was better than his two caps
Goalkeeper Brian Murphy’s call-up to the Ireland squad for the make-or-break assignments in Dublin and Paris is fitting...
They might be giants…
They might be giants…
If David Haye can give Goliath the guts of seven stone, nine inches and hit and run his way to the mother of all heavyweight...
Ardkeen nuclear option blasted
Ardkeen nuclear option blasted
The ‘nuclear option’ of centralising all acute health services in the South East at Waterford Regional Hospital is ‘not on’...
Blind eye to toxic threat
Blind eye to toxic threat
An unthinkable threat to the source of Waterford city’s water supply remains the elephant in the room as far as local and...
Kenny’s ‘scrap Saturday’ move upsets Senators
Kenny’s ‘scrap Saturday’ move upsets Senators
Waterford’s two Senators, who are both from Fine Gael, aren’t best pleased about party leader Enda Kenny’s bombshell Seanad...
