Even if Ireland don’t qualify for the World Cup, we might see that night in Budapest as part of an historic narrative turning point.

The consolation for fans wearying of their team’s latest omnishambles is that it will soon move on to the next hapless outfit.

People don’t get to choose their endings, true, but how did it come to this for arguably the iconic player of the modern Anfield era?

How much stick can fans reasonably dish out to make themselves feel better?

A bigger World Cup has spread happiness all over the globe .

Ireland are now the poor relations of the Celtic quadrangle, and comparisons with Northern Ireland are not flattering. 

Rugby has money but it stretches only so far. You see it whenever the sport tries to reach beyond its limits.

A billionaire will put up with a lot of things, but being associated in public discourse with a reasonably priced family hatchback is a slander too far

It's no slight on City to say he is one of those exceptions to that thing about no man being bigger than the club.

One of Heimir Hallgrimsson's strengths is his ability to identify Ireland's shortcomings in post-match interviews. Unfortunately, he seems unable to do anything about them. It's time for radical thinking.