SPORTS COLUMNISTS
By Adrian Russell - Friday, May 25, 2012
Cunningham has just completed a Sport and Recreation college course.
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By Liam Mackey - Friday, May 25, 2012
The Premier League may be a global operation but there are times when it cannot disguise its insular roots.
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By Paddy Heaney - Thursday, May 24, 2012
Match programmes also need to change. The neat diagrams displaying teams in a 6-2-6 formation belong with the bishops throwing in the ball
DONEGAL: Paul Durcan; Paddy McGrath, Neil McGee (0-1), Declan Walsh; Anthony Thompson, Karl Lacey, Frank McGlynn (0-1); Rory Kavanagh (0-3), Neil Gallagher (0-1); Ryan Bradley, Mark McHugh (0-2), David Walsh; Colm McFadden (1-6, 1-0 penalty, 0-5 frees), Paddy McBrearty, Leo McLoone.
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By Donal Lenihan - Wednesday, May 23, 2012
When Leinster look back on their domination of European rugby over the last four seasons, they may well pinpoint that incredible Heineken Cup semi-final win over Munster in 2009 as their coming of age.
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By John Riordan - Wednesday, May 23, 2012
The Mexican drug cartels operating with alarming bloodlust around the hinterlands of El Paso, Texas have promised there’ll be a one-day truce on Saturday, June 16.
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By Michael Fortune - Wednesday, May 23, 2012
The draw for the first round of the Sporting Press Irish Oaks has thrown up a few intriguing clashes.
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By Seamus O’Tuama - Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Five individual gold medals from a possible 12, and two individual silvers as well as a bronze.
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By Charlie Mulqueen, Tuesday View - Tuesday, May 22, 2012
After Leinster’s success, can we expect the same kind of upsurge in the national team’s fortunes?
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By Kieran Shannon - Tuesday, May 22, 2012
For Petr Cech, it was a case of when in Germany do what the Germans do.
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By David Shonfield - Tuesday, May 22, 2012
No matter where you happened to be over the final week of the football season, it was hard to escape people talking about destiny.
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By Charlie Mulqueen, Talking Golf - Tuesday, May 22, 2012
The big guns of Irish golf will contest this week’s BMW PGA Championship, the European Tour’s flagship tournament, at Wentworth.
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By Donal Lenihan - Monday, May 21, 2012
When Diego Maradona slalomed through the English defence to score that wonder goal at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, RTÉ’s Jimmy Magee provided the memorable soundtrack to genius... “Different Class. DIFFERENT CLASS.”
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By Liam Mackey - Monday, May 21, 2012
My hitherto cast-iron conviction that Germany will win Euro 2012 took a hell of a beating in Munich on Saturday night.
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By Ray Silke - Monday, May 21, 2012
A 14-point defeat is a bitter pill for any side to swallow.
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By Michael Moynihan - Monday, May 21, 2012
Looking back now, the man in the optician’s shop probably didn’t mean anything by what he said, but it was still an own goal of massive proportions.
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By Séamus Ó Tuama, Pesaro - Monday, May 21, 2012
Ireland’s Aidan Murphy, who won the Dutch Moors gold medal and broke the European record at the European Bowling Championships in Italy on Saturday.
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By Dara Ó Cinnéide - Monday, May 21, 2012
“It’s hard to find a chip on the shoulder when everyone’s patting you on the back” — Tony Kernan, March 17, 2012]
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By Michael Moynihan - Monday, May 21, 2012
The Championship?
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By Ray Silke - Monday, May 21, 2012
Mayo supporters and managers have been down this path before.
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By Kieran Shannon - Monday, May 21, 2012
Heroic Championship displays aren’t all about getting off to a good start; often they’re about getting over a bad one
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By Kieran Shannon - Monday, May 21, 2012
It was a different world twenty years ago. Most counties knew their place in the GAA’s hierarchy.
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By Michael Moynihan - Monday, May 21, 2012
Weary and running out of gas, the Kerry footballers and Cork hurlers met their Waterloo in the summer of ’87
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By Michael Moynihan - Monday, May 21, 2012
Two youngsters clashed in the 1987 All-Ireland minor final, Tipperary v Offaly, who featured in a lot of headlines subsequently. You know them well...
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By Michael Moynihan - Monday, May 21, 2012
He hasn’t discovered any short cuts. The familiar signposts — Mallow, Buttevant, Charleville — still mark the winding road from Cork to Limerick and John Allen has seen a lot of them in recent months.
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By Michael Moynihan - Monday, May 21, 2012
We’re in Nowlan Park so we’ll start with the visitor. When I say ‘Kilkenny’ what comes to mind, Seán Óg?
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By Larry Ryan - Saturday, May 19, 2012
Deepak Chopra — still waiting for his Premier League chance — calls it past conditioning. “A new experience enters the mind, but instead of being evaluated for itself, is shunted down a well-worn track.”
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By Keith Andrews - Saturday, May 19, 2012
My intention this week, for one week only, is to make this a Euros free-zone.
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By Liam Mackey - Saturday, May 19, 2012
It’s nigh on impossible to consider the likely outcome of tonight’s Champions League final in Munich without referencing what Roberto Mancini rightly dubbed “a crazy season” in the Premier League.
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By Donal Lenihan - Saturday, May 19, 2012
Getting the upper hand here will give one team an edge at Twickenham.
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By Dara O Cinneide - Saturday, May 19, 2012
There was a theory in Galway last month before they played Kildare in what turned out to be the final league match of the season that Galway would be better off not winning.
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By Kieran Shannon - Saturday, May 19, 2012
This day last year they couldn’t do without him. Leo Cullen couldn’t anyhow.
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By Adrian Russell - Friday, May 18, 2012
Before her fight this morning she would have read the same Bible verses and listened to the same Christian songs on her iPod
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