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Grand Slam the high point of great year
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
There are no prizes for guessing what the highlight of the year from a sporting perspective was, for most people this year, Ireland winning the rugby Grand Slam for the first time since 1948.
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Unforgettable weekend for Irish sport
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
A COUPLE of weeks ago, I was thinking about going to the doctor for an auld check-up. The cholesterol, the heart and so on - I’m not getting any younger you know.
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Sizing Europe’s connections arrive at a massive crossroads
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES.
In this week’s paper last year the cover picture for our sport was the Henry de Bromhead trained Sizing Europe romping to victory in serious style over a top class field in the AIG Hurdle at Leopardstown.
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Nobody knows what to expect from these Beijing Olympics
Friday, August 08, 2008
AFTER years of talk, the 2008 Olympics from Beijing will finally get underway this week and I think it’s fair to say that nobody really knows what to expect.
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Munster bandwagon just rolls on and on
Friday, April 11, 2008
HAVING read so much of the coverage of Munster’s Heineken Cup quarter-final win away to Gloucester, I am at this stage a little mixed up as to who said what but I am nearly certain that it was Ronan O’Gara who came up with the following insight that caught my attention.
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Waterford schools on a crest of a wave
Friday, April 04, 2008
ONE of the great aspects of sport is watching younger sports people and trying to spot the stars of the future.
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What’s the point in Limerick date?
Friday, March 28, 2008
HERE WE GO AGAIN. Just when you think that the GAA can’t baffle us anymore they hit us full square between the eyes and bowl us out for six.
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And now the end is near..........
Friday, March 21, 2008
ANOTHER SIX NATIONS campaign behind us but everything’s changed, changed utterly.
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Ireland’s performance and atmosphere a damp squib
Friday, March 14, 2008
THINKING back over the course of last week I believe it’s about twelve years since I went to an Ireland senior rugby international at home (I was in Murrayfield a few years ago for Ireland and Scotland) it too was against Scotland in Lansdowne Road.
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Where has all the love gone?
Friday, February 29, 2008
ISN’T it always sad when a beautiful and loving relation-ship reaches the its end.
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Who cares where the money for ‘Trap’ came from?
Friday, February 22, 2008
IN the end it might have been the worst kept secret but after 113 days of waiting we were more than happy when Giovanni Trapattoni let the cat out of the bag hours ahead of the FAI’s big announcement that the 68 year-old Italian had agreed to become the manager of the Republic of Ireland and for me at least it was music to the ears.
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Horrific World Cup memories rekindled in Croke Park
Friday, February 08, 2008
JUST when we were nearly over the disaster that was Ireland’s World Cup in France. Just when we had just about recovered, last Saturday’s opening Six Nations match against Italy wiped out all the healing that the past four or five months had done.
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Magnificent Munster sting Wasps out of Europe
Friday, January 25, 2008
THOMOND PARK. Middle of January. Half five on a Saturday evening. It can only mean one thing. Another crucial must win final pool game in the Heineken Cup for Munster.
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A Munster defeat never felt so good
Friday, January 18, 2008
JUST when you think you’ve seen it all with Munster, there’s more. Over the years, and particularly since the conception of the Heineken Cup, time and again they have defied all the opinions of the experts and logic itself to conjure improbable and often the impossible.
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King Kenny set for Irish job?
Friday, January 11, 2008
A NEW YEAR but still the search for the next Republic of Ireland manager goes on and on and on. At least we know that it is still going on as Roy Hodgson (now in place as Fulham manager) admitted that he was interviewed for the Irish job but decided to take up the club position when offered it by the London club.
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2007 - The year of Harrington, Irish Cricket and Dan the Man
Friday, January 04, 2008
SO here we are again, facing into a brand new year of sport and isn’t it brilliant.
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Roller-coaster times for a ‘flawed genius’
Saturday, December 15, 2007
WHAT a difference a couple of days make in life.
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What is the the Irish rugby world coming to?
Friday, December 07, 2007
A horrible Friday night in Musgrave Park. Wind, rain, muck, awful conditions, in front of a sellout home Munster Crowd, Leinster in town (for the first time since the World Cup and with all the rumours of a Munster/ Leinster divide in the Irish camp) all pointed to one thing, - a Munster win.
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Time for a fresh beginning for the Blues
Saturday, December 01, 2007
SO twelve months on, it real-ly is happening this time. You’ll remember about this time last year, we were in the middle of the will they wont they relegation saga with Waterford United. Play-offs that meant nothing and so on. In the end that time United stayed in the Premier League, after it looked certain they wouldn’t. Twelve months on they’ve ended up the opposite, relegated to the first division when it looked odds on that they’d stay up.
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FAI must appoint the right man this time
Friday, November 23, 2007
WITH all that has gone on over recent times and with space at a premium with all the matches and so on, I haven’t written a Talking Sport column in a while but now my friends I’m back.
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