We’ve always been quick to bash the Brits when they claim credit for an Irish success, so US Open champion Graeme McDowell’s...
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Highs and lows
Highs and lows
With RTÉ still way ahead of the competition – and savour every second of Bill O’Herlihy’s broadcasting swansong – Graeme...
Putting the mess in messiah
Putting the mess in messiah
Kilkenny looked five-in-a-row material at the weekend, though Dublin might as well have run onto the field waving white flags....
Satellite of love
Satellite of love
There were times last Saturday morning when the team Brent Pope branded ‘the best in the world’ last autumn (after beating a...
Jacks are back
Jacks are back
A short while later over on TV3, leadership was also an issue. The capital’s fairweather fans booed Dublin off at half-time as...
Gaelic in all it gory glory
Gaelic in all it gory glory
Say what you like about Gaelic football, and most commentators do, but the annual Kerry-Cork slugfest produced another...
Casualty of casualness
Casualty of casualness
On Sunday presenter Darragh Moloney felt obliged or was advised to apologise for a turning slip of the tongue by Graeme Souness...
England slump to the occasion
England slump to the occasion
It’s been great gas watching Sky Sports News desperately trying to compensate for the fact that they’ve feck-all actual action...
Next day Waterford should start as they mean to go on
Next day Waterford should start as they mean to go on
There are a few very simple certainties in life. One is that Munster hurling should be played on a Sunday (with Thurles a...
Tough at the top
Tough at the top
Cycling Ireland President, veteran Dungarvan rider Rory Wyley (centre) of the Tipperary Dan Morrissey team makes his way up to...
Money spinner
Money spinner
Many’s the fable has been flogged about the fella who in bygone days travelled to Thurles from here (there and everywhere) on a...
Shooting from the hip
Shooting from the hip
I can’t be alone in thinking he’d make an ideal GAA/GPA envoy to those hard-to-reach hurling regions, but if Tony Browne is...
