Cunningham has just completed a Sport and Recreation college course.
The Premier League may be a global operation but there are times when it cannot disguise its insular roots.
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.
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.
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.
The draw for the first round of the Sporting Press Irish Oaks has thrown up a few intriguing clashes.
Five individual gold medals from a possible 12, and two individual silvers as well as a bronze.
After Leinster’s success, can we expect the same kind of upsurge in the national team’s fortunes?
For Petr Cech, it was a case of when in Germany do what the Germans do.
No matter where you happened to be over the final week of the football season, it was hard to escape people talking about destiny.
The big guns of Irish golf will contest this week’s BMW PGA Championship, the European Tour’s flagship tournament, at Wentworth.
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.”
My hitherto cast-iron conviction that Germany will win Euro 2012 took a hell of a beating in Munich on Saturday night.
A 14-point defeat is a bitter pill for any side to swallow.
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.
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.
“It’s hard to find a chip on the shoulder when everyone’s patting you on the back” — Tony Kernan, March 17, 2012]
Mayo supporters and managers have been down this path before.
Heroic Championship displays aren’t all about getting off to a good start; often they’re about getting over a bad one
It was a different world twenty years ago. Most counties knew their place in the GAA’s hierarchy.
Weary and running out of gas, the Kerry footballers and Cork hurlers met their Waterloo in the summer of ’87
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...
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.
We’re in Nowlan Park so we’ll start with the visitor. When I say ‘Kilkenny’ what comes to mind, Seán Óg?
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.”
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.
Getting the upper hand here will give one team an edge at Twickenham.
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.
This day last year they couldn’t do without him. Leo Cullen couldn’t anyhow.
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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