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Hero DeFord better over time

The reference to golf elsewhere on the page was sparked by a book I borrowed last week, Over Time by Frank DeFord, which contains an elegantly exasperated head-shake over the pretentions of that sport.

A noble cause rediscovering Ireland’s proud sporting history

Open draw no longer viable in modern world

Marathon Man Corcoran clocking up the miles

Boys in green bear no resemblance to heroes of yore

Dub star Rushe offers redemption from the norm

Taylor’s heroics doling out a few attitude adjusters

Looking back now, the man in the optician’s shop probably didn’t mean anything by what he said, but it was still an own goal of massive proportions.

Mon, 21 May, 2012

Buttimer a GAA man to the core

The week a politician discloses his sexuality to the public, you’d imagine a quiet couple of days would be in order.

Mon, 07 May, 2012

O’Reilly and his junior Bs on a winner

James O’Reilly and his pals on the Ballincollig junior B football team had an idea.

Mon, 23 Apr, 2012

Ger’s real life story rescued from mountain

If he had gotten down to Camp Four that day and had heard the Koreans were in trouble, chances are he would have gone back up to try to help them. He was just that kind of person.

Mon, 16 Apr, 2012

It seems there is an Aussie sporting lesson we could learn

I might as well admit it early doors and put it up on the table.

Mon, 02 Apr, 2012

Whatever happened to French gallantry? Sending out a woman to take the jeering?

Common sense takes week off — now that is a dealbreaker.

Mon, 13 Feb, 2012

Joyce’s GAA requires closer inspection

HAPPY new year to all readers, and fear not.

Mon, 02 Jan, 2012

Going bananas to hear Daly’s latest head-throw

TEATIME wasn’t progressing too well that evening last week – negotiations with the two-year-old on blueberries as a viable dessert had broken down irrevocably, it seemed – when a half-heard comment at the end of the radio sports news seeped through.

Mon, 14 Nov, 2011

Great McGahern provides hope at time of great loss

WE had our topic nicely selected for this corner well ahead of time: The GAA County by County, a typically handsome production by Con Collins and his colleagues at the Collins Press.

Mon, 31 Oct, 2011

Green shoots of recovery in Cork’s forgotten club

A COMMUNAL green area in a Cork suburb doesn’t look like an obvious theatre of dreams.

Mon, 24 Oct, 2011

How chirpy tweeters were all a-flutter on Twitter for All-Ireland final day

FOR a while yesterday, I felt like I must be the lucky one.

Mon, 05 Sep, 2011

Pope’s children are still none the wiser

JOHN Kennedy Toole has a lot to answer for.

Mon, 15 Aug, 2011

Daly will have endured worse weekends

SPARE a thought for Conal Keaney today.

Mon, 25 Jul, 2011

Scale of Cork problems is tough to digest

THE texts and mails weren’t long in beeping themselves into consciousness on Saturday evening, an hour after teatime.

Mon, 11 Jul, 2011

Having a Dickins of a time in Tipp

IMPLACABLE November, an exaggeration?

Mon, 13 Jun, 2011

Dromina deserving of the limelight

YESTERDAY Dromina, a little village in north Cork, had its day in the sun — or scouring rain, to be more precise — as the hurlers of Cork and Laois rolled in for a challenge to mark the opening of new GAA facilities.

Mon, 09 May, 2011

Capital gains truly taxing for Rebels

REGIME change in hurling?

Mon, 18 Apr, 2011

Giving a little back to Darbyshire

LAST Saturday Thomond Park hosted the latest meeting of Munster and Leinster in the Magners League, a game hyped in the usual terms: a huge battle, with unflinching confrontation. You know the drill.

Mon, 04 Apr, 2011

Striking up the band to the sound of silence

IF you’d like to know what it feels like to start the most controversial minute’s music in Irish sporting history, there’s someone you can ask in the Phoenix Park.

Mon, 21 Mar, 2011

Home and away: The adventures of Liam and Sam

QUESTION: when do you put away the All-Ireland trophy?

Mon, 28 Feb, 2011

The only thing that stays the same is change

PULSELESS and saurian have been my adjectives of choice for the last few days, having come across them somewhere or other the weekend before last.

Mon, 07 Feb, 2011

Every sport needs a little bit of magic

YOU CAN get cynical in this game pretty easily. You meet idols with feet of clay, the clay ending somewhere in the mid-thigh region.

Mon, 31 Jan, 2011

Caps, box sets, accents - the life of Hogan

THE CHAT was going reasonably well.

Mon, 24 Jan, 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

The end of a dream in our sporting future imperfect

THE grey-haired man looked down into the tar barrel. The fire was dying and the warmth ebbing away, so he drew his hooded top a little closer and rummaged in his bag.

Mon, 06 Dec, 2010

Keeping an eye and ear on effin’ Eddie’s Glensmen

THE eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that Tipperary outfit Aherlow collected a second Tipperary SFC title last weekend.

Mon, 15 Nov, 2010

Three little things and a whole load of nonsense

“LET’S HAVE a chat,” said the sports editor, who, newly returned from holidays, usually has a new broom air about him for the first couple of days back in harness.

Mon, 01 Nov, 2010

This amateur/ professional debate is dead

COUNTRY versus a continent?

Mon, 25 Oct, 2010

Walking away from Bores unlimited

EVERY year we have them.

Mon, 18 Oct, 2010

Stopping to savour last day of summer

FIRST stop the Bronx.

Mon, 11 Oct, 2010

Celtic Manor a reminder of a lost country

AT TIMES of turmoil like these, we usually go to Breandán O hEithir for consolation.

Mon, 04 Oct, 2010

A coarsening challenge to find real Ireland

OCTOBER on the horizon.

Mon, 27 Sep, 2010

Scenes from a week in the life

Monday lunchtime, September 6

Mon, 13 Sep, 2010

The end is hard for Cats as Tipp feel hand of history

JUST LAST week Tony Blair visited Ireland to publicise his autobiography.

Mon, 06 Sep, 2010

Getting to the heart of the cult of the ‘personality’

AHAB and Nemesis.

Mon, 16 Aug, 2010

From realistic pessimism to hopeless optimism

THE scene: the Burlington Hotel, Dublin, last Saturday night.

Mon, 09 Aug, 2010

A warning call as Hurricane goes gently into that good night

ANOTHER piece of childhood vanished for a lot of people over the weekend with the death of former world snooker champion Alex Higgins.

Mon, 26 Jul, 2010

Saturday night fever adds another familiar chapter

THE WEEKEND of the British Open, which is detailed elsewhere in these pages, is a perfect cue for talk of tradition and the past, though the (doubtless) heroics of various slacks-wearing, v-neck sporting super-athletes need not detain us here.

Mon, 19 Jul, 2010

Remembering lessons learnt as chalk dust settles on teacher’s career

EVENTUALLY you surprise yourself by saying 30 years ago about your own life.

Mon, 12 Jul, 2010

Rise and fall of Mayo men proves sport and politics should never mix

A COUPLE of weeks ago we noticed that there was a very unfortunate metaphor being trotted around by political pundits as Fine Gael was convulsed by a leadership challenge.

Mon, 28 Jun, 2010

Recalling mystery of ’78 as World Cup coverage now runneth over

THE old cricket verse, At Lord’s, puts it better than we ever could: O my Hornby and my Barlow long ago.

Mon, 21 Jun, 2010

No legend left behind in Mount Sion

AND SO to Waterford on a sunny weekend. We spent most of Saturday afternoon at a GAA club function in the Crystal City, which was conducted half al fresco and half al taverna, if you’ll forgive the pidgin Italian. The al fresco part was the most enjoyable, given the variety of delights on offer.

Mon, 07 Jun, 2010

From portents of doom to great expectations

THE INK in the obituarists’ pens dried up at about the time Séan Óg O hAilpín encountered Declan Fanning underneath the covered stand in Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.

Mon, 31 May, 2010

Greens make play for the plain people

YOU MAY have noticed last week that Minister for Communications, Eamon Ryan, is thinking of designating Heineken Cup games as ‘free-to-air’ events, which means that Irish viewers would be able to watch same without going through Sky and having to pay.

Mon, 10 May, 2010