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Paul Rouse

Paul Rouse is an historian, author, broadcaster… and former Offaly football boss. He specialises in sport and Irish culture.

This is what it's like to see a game of baseball at Fenway Park

It’s not easy to eat your way through a baseball match.

Fri, 01 Jul, 2016

USGA penalty pantomime a throwback 130 years

Fri, 24 Jun, 2016

€30m for redevelopment of Páirc Uí Chaíomh is money badly spent

The €30m pledged by the Government in support of the redevelopment of Páirc Uí Chaíomh is money badly spent. To understand why this is the case, take even a cursory look at the recent results of a survey of sports participation in Ireland.

Fri, 17 Jun, 2016

The history of the split that will see two Irish teams at #Euro2016

The fact that two teams from Ireland will compete at Euro 2016 in France this month is a legacy of the divided politics of Ireland, writes Paul Rouse

Fri, 10 Jun, 2016

What if we could bottle the innocence and excitement of youth?

Schools athletics is a wonderful antidote to the cynicism which has captured athletics globally at the highest level, writes Paul Rouse

Fri, 03 Jun, 2016

'The Hurley Maker’s Son' reveals how hurling is embedded in rhythm of life for some

Larry Deeley was cutting ash trees to make hurleys when he died. It was the end of September 1978. 

Thu, 19 May, 2016

Ger Brennan begins new chapter after glory days with Dublin

Brennan talks about readjusting to life after inter-county football.

Thu, 12 May, 2016

GPA cash plans do the GAA's inter-county players a disservice

Sometimes an organisation does something that just reveals so much about itself.

Thu, 05 May, 2016

Fundamental lesson of Hillsborough not learned

And so the disgrace continues.

Thu, 28 Apr, 2016

When an American invasion cost GAA money and men

On Saturday, Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers will put up for sale the diary which Pat Davin, the outstanding Tipperary athlete, kept of a tour of the USA undertaken by GAA hurlers and athletes in 1888.

Thu, 21 Apr, 2016