For Dalymount Park, the fervent hope must be that we can soon be calling it the once and future home of Irish football.

As a boy in Dublin, with a Cork mother, I admired the sterling sportsman Noel Cantwell, just as my late father had admired Cobh’s “Gorgeous Gael”, the boxer Jack Doyle.

The family of an Irish sporting legend said they are deeply moved after a walkway near his childhood home was named in his honour.

An almost forgotten legend of Irish sport is to get formal recognition in his home city.

LEESIDE LEGEND: Cork-born Jackie Morley signs for West Ham in 1955 where he spent three seasons before returning in 1958, joining League of Ireland newcomers, Cork Hibs.

At 85-years of age, Frank O’Farrell is the oldest living player to have donned the claret and blue of West Ham United.

The backdrop to last night’s events in Dublin had been a negative one, despite the Stockholm result, focused as it was on past defeats to Austria who have found encounters with Ireland, more often than not, to their liking.

JOSÉ Armando Ufarte Ventoso was the man who broke Irish hearts in Paris 44 years ago but many still feel an own-goal by the FAI had sealed the side’s fate some weeks before.

THEY say that life doesn’t owe you a living but I still maintain that Irish football owes me 50p.

MANCHESTER United will hold a minute’s silence prior to tomorrow’s derby clash with Man City at Old Trafford in memory of former skipper Noel Cantwell.

Legendary Manchester United goalkeeper Harry Gregg has ’lost a great friend’ in the Red Devils’ 1963 FA Cup-winning captain Noel Cantwell, who has died in Peterborough aged 73.

Former Manchester United and Republic of Ireland captain Noel Cantwell has died aged 73.

PAT FENLON was named personality of the year at the Eircom/Soccer Writers Association of Ireland annual awards in Cork on Saturday night.

REPUBLIC of Ireland and Manchester United legend Noel Cantwell will be back in his native Cork this weekend, as the guest speaker at the annual eircom/Soccer Writers Association of Ireland awards ceremony, in the Rochestown Park Hotel.

Republic of Ireland striker Robbie Keane is hoping to have double cause for celebration on Thursday when he wins his 50th cap as also has the chance to become his country’s leading goalscorer.

Bill George spoke to Nicky Button his hopes of regaining a regular place in the Man United first team.