These are the standout quotes from the world of punditry in 2019...

Working on the Irish TV coverage of Bulgaria v England on Monday night acted as another reminder of how silly a job it can be at times.

Listen up guys, the word on the street is that beards are over and it’s time to grow a moustache. Pat Fitzpatrick asks the expert

The lads done well… Liam Brady is the latest ex-Irish international to show that talking a good game can be very lucrative after hanging up the boots.

If not always the football, then the results continue to flow in the World Cup qualifiers. writes Liam Mackey

Newly-filed accounts for media firms owned by former Irish soccer players-turned-pundits Liam Brady, Mark Lawrenson and Andy Townsend show they are all prospering.

Mickey Quinn won’t collar Wayne Rooney:

One of the ironies of the Premier League being so hyped through the years is that criticisms and critics of the same league can be guilty of gross exaggeration as well.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

As John Giles completed 30 years on the RTE football panel last night, Eamon Dunphy paid an eloquent and emotional tribute to his friend and colleague’s career in football.

The Republic of Ireland travels to France this week with a squad of 23 players who will be looking to make history and take Ireland out of the group stage for the first time in the Euros.

Retired Irish international soccer stars who are working as pundits continue to prosper from the ‘beautiful game.’

TV3 have snatched Six Nations rights from 2018-21. Can Rugby Country sustain a coup of this magnitude? Here are some of the things we’ll miss.

Arsene Wenger hasn’t just clambered up to the moral high ground — he’s having a picnic there.

Here's what you can look forward to on the box tonight.

Here's the good stuff on TV tonight.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers is once again suffering death by legends as the club’s high profile former players line up to criticise his tactics — and the big question now is ‘How much longer can he last?’

His subtle but succinct skewering of John Delaney grabbed all the attention on this side of the Irish Sea, but closer to home, it was another of Stewart Regan’s observations that stood out from the rest. 

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Here's our guide to the best of tonight's TV.

Liverpool have another chance to chase a place in next season’s Champions League as they begin their UEFA Europa League campaign.

What's on telly tonight? These shows are, and you should watch them.

Chelsea are top of another league after their fans’ festive chant about manager Jose Mourinho was voted the funniest of all time.

Goalkeeping legend Packie Bonner recalls Ireland’s victory over Scotland in Glasgow in 1987, with soccer writer, Liam Mackey, and reveals that although Jack Charlton’s team would kick on to a first ever Euros qualification, the road was by no means smooth on the way to the promised land.

We've compiled a list of the best non-Irish born Irish internationals not in the current squad.

For all the strides Ireland have made during the first year of Martin O’Neill and Roy Keane’s management, legend Paul McGrath fears Scotland, under former team-mate Gordon Strachan, hold the upper hand this week.

On the 27th anniversary of Scotland beating Bulgaria to send Ireland to Euro ‘88, honorary Irishman Gary Mackay recalls the goal that made all the difference — and the case of whiskey that got away!

New figures show Irish TV soccer pundits are scoring for fun when it comes to being financially rewarded for offering their views on the game.

Former Republic of Ireland striker John Aldridge believes Luis Suarez’s four-month ban could prove a blessing in disguise for Liverpool.

“Suarez has gone down like he’s been crucified.”

Highlights include Who’s Buying Ireland? and a discussion of pre-nups on Ear To The Ground

Highlights include new RTÉ/BBC thriller, The Fall, and the Eurovision semi-final

Liverpool will review the full reasons behind the Football Association’s 10-match ban for Luis Suarez today before deciding whether to appeal against the punishment imposed for biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic.

Luis Suarez and Liverpool were left “shocked and disappointed” after the striker was hit with a 10-match ban for biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic — a sanction that could see him suspended from domestic football until October.

Former Tottenham Hotspur boss Harry Redknapp has joined Match Of The Day as a regular pundit for the new season.

POT MEETS KETTLE

What channel to watch? Who has hired the bluffers and who has the gems? Des O’Driscoll tunes television viewers into Euro 2012

Pub quiz time: What European country has produced most European Cup-winning players without a domestic club lifting the prize?

Former Liverpool defender Mark Lawrenson does not believe manager Kenny Dalglish is facing the sack, but has conceded his former team-mate needs to start winning some Premier League games.

Leading figures in football have backed Harry Redknapp to succeed Fabio Capello as England manager following the Italian’s stunning resignation last night.

Former team-mates and current professionals were among the mourners who today attended the funeral of ex-Liverpool and Everton defender Gary Ablett.

EVEN all these years later, with Ireland just one game away from qualifying for a major tournament, Eoin Hand sometimes thinks about just how close he was to qualifying for Spain 82, only for that “cheat” of a Portuguese referee in Brussels.