Columns - Irish Examiner

Larry Ryan

With more selfies than birdies, golf shouldn't need Paige Spiranac

Their worst fears have been confirmed, the old boys at the R&A who reluctantly prized their doors slightly ajar to ‘ladies’ last year.

Sat, 12 Dec, 2015

Thinking outside the box for TV punditry

For those of us who have kept a close eye, over the years, on the much-maligned industry of football punditry, this was a gratifying week. A week that almost certainly brought us closer to the day when a great football manager, a man such as Alex Ferguson perhaps, will be asked the key question we have waited for all our lives.

Sat, 05 Dec, 2015

Turncoat crisis starts at the top

It is time to address a matter of grave concern to many parents.

Sat, 28 Nov, 2015

Obligation to find hope in football

The Sky Sports News man’s interruption was a touch crude, a little insensitive, yet oddly comforting. A small contribution to hope.

Sat, 21 Nov, 2015

Football fans find identity in crisis

In British football, meanwhile, it is identity that may be suffering an identity crisis, writes Larry Ryan

Sat, 07 Nov, 2015

Everyone a winner in Billy Walsh saga

The week has been a game-changer for Billy Walsh.

Sat, 31 Oct, 2015

Money talks in ballgame dreams of the future

Maybe there is a game more romanticised, more mythologised than rugby.

Sat, 24 Oct, 2015

Praise the myth-makers in our new Sunday service

The bare, chilling words of John Fogarty, in this paper last Monday:

Sat, 17 Oct, 2015

Cult of gaffer losing the plot

The very first manager to have “lost the dressing room”, according to Google, was John Barnes in 1999.

Sat, 10 Oct, 2015

Wenger going around in circles

It appears to genuinely infuriate Jose Mourinho, to eat away at his sense of enormous well-being, that Arsene Wenger is not subjected to the whims and fancies of the Managerial Merrygoround.

Sat, 03 Oct, 2015