They don’t call it ‘moving day’ for nothing. It’s been a tough weekend for the Irish at the USPGA. So tough in fact that Rory McIlroy is already in New York to watch Carl Frampton fight Leo Santa Cruz later this evening, Shane Lowry is wondering aloud what the point of it all is and Graeme McDowell’s […]

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Pure class. Jay Beatty has moved on from just Celtic super fan. He’s even moved on from Goal of the Month winner. Celtic's @charlie_mulgrew presented the award to Wee Jay (NM) pic.twitter.com/g6IQvuJFLH — Celtic Football Club (@CelticFC) March 1, 2015 The Armagh native is now a fully-fledged ambassador of the Celtic FC Foundation so, not […]

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Could he do it against a gale-force wind on a Sunday afternoon along the Donegal coast? Pele was good with a size five but he never proved his greatness with an O’Neill’s or against the acid test of club GAA football. A column from 1966 though compares the treatment of the Brazilian at the time […]

10 years ago

Jurgen Klopp. The hero Liverpool need. In recent years Liverpool’s transfer policy has been about as effective as a three-legged, one-eyed Jack Russell trying to conduct a philharmonic orchestra entirely made up of squirrels. Well maybe a little bit better than that but not much. With the arrival of Jurgen Klopp as manager last October […]

10 years ago

It’s hand down the most annoying thing about golf. You can complain all you want about it being a game of respect or some nonsense like that but by far the most offensive thing about those guys who shout out something just as a golfer hits their tee-shot is that they are never, ever, funny. Never. Not […]

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In this day and age, it’s hard to find reliable news. We are in what many are calling the “post-facts” age of reporting, where people just dig their heels in and see everything around them as confirmation as their own viewpoint. No one more so than those reporting on world events. Everyone has an agenda. […]

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Sam Allardyce is the first England manager who also managed in the League of Ireland. Big Sam spent a year at Limerick FC in the early 1990s and was today unveiled as the latest man to try and achieve whatever it is that’s considered success with England. Whatever you think of Allardyce, it’s nice to […]

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Safe to say defences were on top! Another summer, another battle for the soul of Gaelic football. Blanket defence, stifling tactics, structural reform. Once again these are all talking points as we head for August. Sure, there have been some fiercely contested games this summer, but those who see all that’s wrong with the game […]

10 years ago

And he could be playing in Dublin next week…

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