“UCC from the depths of hell.” Phil Healy… What a RUN! It’s hard to tell what was better: the closing stage of the women’s 4x400m relay in the IUAA, or the priceless – soon to be iconic – commentary that accompanied it. The Irish Universities Athletics Association was lit up on Sunday with the most […]

5 years ago

As All-Ireland successes go, few have been as hard-earned and deserved as Galway’s. 315 days. That’s how long the 2020 All-Ireland U20 football championship endured and after all that time, all the mental and physical hardships along the way, all the shit that this year has brought, the Tribesmen have clinched one of the sweetest […]

5 years ago

Take your 12/20 and don’t come crying to me. No prisoners today.

5 years ago

SHOW ME THE MONEY! Show me your high scores after today’s quiz.

5 years ago

Let’s go.

5 years ago

Let’s just get the bad news out of the way right now. Cheddar Plunkett has done his last GAA Hour show (for now). The good news? Cheddar is back in the inter-county game! The Laois hurling legend returns to the hotseat of his county and although he leaves behind massive pundit shoes that will be […]

5 years ago

Not easy today. Not sorry.

5 years ago

Let’s do it.

5 years ago

SportsJOE 12 o’clock quiz? Completed it, mate.

5 years ago

James McCarthy finds himself at wing forward. Dublin have turned another ball over and are building from the back and every one of them are now doing what they always do, thinking about where they should be to help the move. McCarthy’s movement has upset the front four though. Inside, Kilkenny, Rock and Small are […]

5 years ago

Right, come on. Let’s go.

5 years ago

We gotta keep our composure. We’ve come too far.

5 years ago

If you don’t do well today, you only have yourself to blame. Day 251, let’s do it.

5 years ago

It is with the heaviest of hearts that we report the news that Diego Maradona has passed away. One of the greatest to ever play the game of football, one of the widest smiles and biggest hearts to boot, Diego Maradona touched lives all over the planet with his skill, his bravery, his genius. A […]

5 years ago

Tricky enough today. It’s the least you deserve after bragging about yesterday’s.

5 years ago

You know the craic. Let’s play.

5 years ago

They say if a manager is roaring and shouting, he hasn’t prepared enough. Some people say that anyway. There’s obviously a time and a place. No changing room is really the same because no game is the same and different occasions call for different approaches. This weekend, Tipperary won’t need any motivating. Not only are […]

5 years ago

Now is the time to lower your expectations. Aim for 15/20 and be happy with it.

5 years ago

Look, he’s not the white knight. He’s not the answer to all our ills. He hasn’t even done anything spectacular with the little game time he’s been given in the last two matches. But when Jack Byrne is in the middle of the Ireland midfield, his team mates come alive. They sharpen up, they give […]

5 years ago

After Armagh ended Derry’s championship in Celtic Park, everyone interested pulled up a stool at the only bar they can convene at nowadays. Twitter. There was but one item on the agenda: Just How Rory Gallagher Was Rory Gallagher’s Derry Team? The evidence – some of it anecdotal, some of it without context – was […]

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When we started this back in March, it was to give people something to do during lockdown. For three minutes of their day anyway. Here we are, 241 days later. Still in lockdown. Have a great day.

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Day 237 was always going to be the big one, from the moment we embarked on this journey. Some of you scoffed at yesterday’s challenge. Well try this one for size.

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Two very important points from the off. Matt Doherty obviously wasn’t man of the match in a 3-0 coasting session for England. But he was given the RTÉ man of the match. We’ll go a couple of games with Coleman and Doherty in the team and start crying about Enda Stevens. Nonetheless, for a few […]

5 years ago

Another camp, another ravaged squad. And this time? An unforgiving opponent. England were in no mood to get dragged into a dog fight at Wembley and two first half goals had them sitting pretty for most of the night as they dispensed of Ireland with minimum fuss. 3-0 the official scoreboard read in the end. […]

5 years ago

Wild Mountain Thyme was more accurate than this. It’s been a tough week. American actors watching leprechaun YouTube videos to brush up on their Irish accents. Game of Thrones throws being worn on the farm and more cultural appropriation than you can shake a hurl at whilst hanging out on your basket canoe thing. Then […]

5 years ago

We ain’t playin’ anymore. You want to be a big’un? Earn it.

5 years ago

You’re making it better for them. By God, Liverpool fans have earned the right to bask in the celebration of a league title they waited 30 years for, and then had to wait a few more pandemic months for on top of that. They more than deserve it after all the crap they put up […]

5 years ago

The curse goes on. Stephen Kenny is looking for his first victory as Ireland manager and that hasn’t been made easy with the bit-part squads he’s been patching together as he goes. To make matters worse, someone decided to organise a game against England ahead of the Nations League clashes with Wales and Bulgaria. Imagine […]

5 years ago

Another 1000 of these and we’ll be able to say Day 1234. We’ll cross that bridge when it comes.

5 years ago

More than 18/20 and you’re sucking diesel…

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Lock me down. I’m ready. It’s not been an easy year – but boring weekends are made much less boring with the amount of sport that’s available to watch. And this Saturday and Sunday is so good I want to laugh until I cry tears of joy. Enjoy it. We deserve it. Friday 7.30pm Armagh […]

5 years ago

It’s funny because you should do really well. But you’re going to let yourself down.

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“He stands back from nothing.” After Conor McKenna hit the net for a second time against Mayo – his third goal in his first two senior inter-county games – he looked unbothered for a couple of seconds as he walked back out. Then, he let go. Two fists clenched, he allowed himself a roar of […]

5 years ago

Going easy on you. Make the most of it.

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The good news? Germany have nothing to play for. They’ve qualified for the Euros and their final game against Ireland means nothing to them. The bad news? It’s Germany. A 1-0 loss in Ukraine has left Ireland’s hopes of qualifying for their first ever major tournament on dodgy ground. Ukraine are now four points behind […]

5 years ago

Heather Payne is one of these players who makes things look easier than they really are. She sees tackles coming in and always finds time and space to round them. She sees runs in between opposition jerseys and manages to pick them out. When her team mates aren’t making the right runs, she forces them […]

5 years ago

Get in the zone. This is your chance.

5 years ago

Waterford have conceded their final game of the National Football League citing concerns over travelling to Antrim. The Deise were due to take on Antrim this weekend in Portglenone but players withdrew from the panel for two main reasons, according to the Waterford statement. The personal family circumstances of some of the players, leading to […]

5 years ago

This has come up before. Not so much the transferring sport, we hear that from commentators every week but the power of the Leinster schools system has obviously yielded phenomenal results. And Munster, by comparison, can’t compete with that system, purely down to the number of rugby schools at their disposal. For them, they have […]

5 years ago

Another badly kept secret has been confirmed. It was expected that, under Level 5 restrictions, all non-professional sport would be in jeopardy of continuing and the GAA have finally been granted clarification. Only senior inter-county games will be allowed to continue for the next six weeks as the country braces itself for a second lockdown. […]

5 years ago

We can’t have anybody freakin’ out out there. We’ve come too far.

5 years ago

Day 209 is a special one. Don’t ask why, just do the damn quiz.

5 years ago

Christ. Back in the 2015/2016 season, the landscape of Liverpool Football Club was different. Jurgen Klopp had just taken over a team in rapid decline and after two months in the job, he was dealing with an injury crisis. By December 2015, Mamadou Sakho, Kolo Toure and Martin Skrtel were all injured and Melwood was […]

5 years ago

What more do you want of a manager than to prepare a team and a system that creates enough chances to win games? Sooner or later, the players have to put the ball in the back of the damn net because what happens, despite blatantly obvious strides already being taken by an Ireland camp that […]

5 years ago

What does Mick McCarthy think he did to get these results? (Whatever results he’s talking about) What is this new style that everyone seems to think is holding the country back? If it wasn’t for a loose enough Randolph pass and a dozy, lazy reaction from Matt Doherty in Finland, Stephen Kenny’s Ireland would’ve kept three clean […]

5 years ago

“The f**king fans can’t fight for you.” So give it a shot yourself.

5 years ago

Bit late now, you might say. Aaron Connolly is back, I say. It was a tough blow, losing out on penalties to Slovakia after dominating them, after losing Adam Idah and Aaron Connolly pre game owing to HSE regulations, finding out the case they were deemed a close contact with later returned negative and missing […]

5 years ago

Football. Can’t live it with it. Can’t live without it. A tough night for the Republic, so why not compound the wound by dedicating a whole quiz to Irish football?

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“But some people would say…” Some people would say anything, Darragh. It doesn’t mean you have to give them a voice on prime time TV and aggressively labour their pointless points. There’s playing devil’s advocate and then there’s that unique RTÉ obsession with what they call balance – which isn’t really balance at all, just […]

5 years ago

Stephen Kenny has confirmed that Aaron Connolly and Adam Idah missed out on the Slovakia playoff because of coronavirus measures. Two of Ireland’s most exciting young attackers were ruled out not long before the must-win clash after being deemed close contacts of a backroom team member who had tested positive – the second of which […]

5 years ago