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Make no mistake, this was a big let-down for Tipperary
Make no mistake, this was a big let-down for Tipperary

When I was Clare manager, we played Limerick in the league semi-final in 2006 in Thurles. The game went to extra-time but it nearly seemed that both teams were more concerned with losing the match than winning it, writes Anthony Daly.

Mon, 09 Apr, 2018

Babs Keating: ‘Donkeys’ remark eventually worked against Cork
Babs Keating: ‘Donkeys’ remark eventually worked against Cork

Babs Keating has described the All-Ireland winning Cork team of 1966 as “moderate enough”, claiming it was one of the easiest All-Irelands ever won.

Fri, 19 May, 2017

Sport left deflated in a toilet
Sport left deflated in a toilet

Sometime in the future, when professional sport has been closed down altogether, people will probably look back at the time America’s finest legal minds produced a rebuttal website on behalf of the New England Patriots that contained these sentences:

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