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Larry Ryan

Now that Ronaldo’s a goal hanger, could the box player become box office again?

Maybe Ronaldo will start to let himself go now, like some of his under-appreciated contemporaries, writes Larry Ryan.

Sat, 06 May, 2017

Solving snooker’s great riddle

Is snooker set up wrong?

Sat, 29 Apr, 2017

Fuming gaffers go on fact-finding mission

Miraculously, it has arrived, the watershed to transform our media landscape. Every gaffer in Irish sport is turning into Rafa Benitez, writes Larry Ryan.

Sat, 15 Apr, 2017

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Ireland women’s team fighting for a brighter future

We can’t forget that the country that gave football to the world took football away from women, writes Larry Ryan.

Sat, 08 Apr, 2017

Is truth worth waiting for?

It’s around 18 months — though it feels like yesterday — since psychologist Aoife McLoughlin published evidence technology is making life appear to slip by faster.

Sat, 01 Apr, 2017

Gaelic football now a riot of rancour

This week a bunch of hopefuls returned from the Scottish highlands where they’d spent a year building a self-sufficient community away from the outside world, writes Larry Ryan.

Sun, 26 Mar, 2017

Tactically astute, the bookies were able to lure the punters into dangerous areas and dispossess them at will. But the indefatigable underdogs never knew when they were beaten, never knew when to stop, writes Larry Ryan.

Sat, 18 Mar, 2017

The men making miracles happen

What will become of us now, The People Who Couldn’t Enjoy It? The people who almost wanted the flag to go up on Sergi Roberto, but who knew that it was never more certain that a flag would stay down, asks Larry Ryan

Sat, 11 Mar, 2017