Person: Mick Higgins

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Five things they learned on replay day down the years

Five All-Ireland finals that went to replays have produced lessons that can be applied today...

Sat, 01 Oct, 2016

OBITUARY: Monsignor Laurence Higgins, Derry footballer who became chaplin to NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers

It was a weekend like no other. On Easter Saturday, 1947, there was a sensation at Aintree; an unfancied trundler called Caughoo, bred and trained in north county Dublin, won the Grand National at 100/1.

Fri, 30 Sep, 2016

Soldiering for the Glensmen’s cause

HARD to believe that Fermanagh are still waiting! It didn’t happen for Down until 1959 and it took a further 13 years before Donegal made the breakthrough.

Mon, 18 Jul, 2011

Fallen giants leave Ireland a poorer nation for 2011

THE Guardian’s elegant columnist Frank Keating had a typically sharp piece in his newspaper last week, a simple concept butexecuted with precision and wit.

Mon, 27 Dec, 2010