Sean Maguire might have hogged the goals and the headlines in Cork City ’s title success last year but arguably no player more completely embodied the collective team effort underlying that achievement – and the cup triumph which made it such a momentous year for the club — than Conor McCormack.

THE World Cup is barely over but, already, the Champions League is kicking off.

WITH thanks to the late great Ian Dury, it is my rare pleasure today to present reasons to be cheerful (part three).

TALK of history is unavoidable in the run-up to Sunday’s FAI Cup final between Derry City and St Patrick’s Athletic, what with this being the last soccer game at the old Lansdowne Road and also an opportunity for the Dublin club to land its first FAI Cup in a staggering 45 years.