Here. We. Go. If you know your UK and US Office, and a bit of Peep Show, you’re off to a flyer here… It’s the SportsJOE  12 o’clock quiz…  Day  two hundred and bloody fifteen.

5 years ago

“We’ll be doing everything that we possibly can to make sure that we keep our side of things nice and clean and we’ll wait for the advice.” Ireland Head Coach Andy Farrell has said that he and his side would be “more than happy to follow” government advice should the Six Nations be cancelled in […]

5 years ago

There’s even a Wayne Rooney’s tweets round. Have at it.

5 years ago

Qualification is now out of the young side’s hands. The Irish u21 side were dealt a potentially fatal blow to their EURO 2021 qualification hopes after a weakened Italian side beat them 2-0 on Tuesday afternoon. Jim Crawford’s first game in charge did not go according to plan, as a goal in either half from […]

5 years ago

“If we can winter this one out, we can summer anywhere.” It’s been a common refrain in 2020, for many. It hasn’t just been our erstwhile Taoiseach that turned to Leaving Cert poetry to look for a faint glimmer of hope in what has been, to put it lightly, a bastard of a year. Now, […]

5 years ago

Have at it. The SportsJOE 12 o’clock quiz is here, and you’ve every chance of full marks. Couple of tricky trip-ups in there, be careful.

5 years ago

Today, Rob Kearney confirmed his exit from Leinster and Irish rugby, and we will never see his like again. For so many years he was the man who could not be moved from the number 15 jersey, in blue and green. He defied challenger after challenger, rode the wave of a changing game with his […]

5 years ago

You want a quiz? We’ll give it ya. Have at it.

5 years ago

You ready for this? If Zlatan can come to Tallaght, 20 out of 20 is doable today.

5 years ago

It’s nearly Friday. Here we go.

5 years ago

Let’s be having you.

5 years ago

Do you remember Gary Kelly being sent off? I certainly don’t. Jason McAteer’s goal against Holland is in its rightful place; among the very greatest Irish goals. It was a seminal moment in Irish football, giving a new generation of fans raised on songs and stories of Italia 90 a reason to believe. Now, in […]

5 years ago

No messing. Pull hard. Let’s be having you.

5 years ago

“No matter who’s the manager, he always played Glenn.” Irish manager Stephen Kenny described the decision to leave veteran midfielder Glenn Whelan and Shamrock Rovers’ Jack Byrne out of his first squad as “tough decisions”. Kenny named a 23-man squad to face Bulgaria and Finland in the Nations League next month on Monday, and while […]

5 years ago

“We want good international results, and that’s what we want to achieve.” There was a moment during a press conference after naming his first Senior international squad that gives the best insight into Stephen Kenny’s managerial mindset to date; “We’ve got nine… eight games in three months”. The first number is out of his mouth […]

5 years ago

The times they are a-changin’… Jayson Molumby and Adam Idah have received their first call-ups to the Irish Senior Men’s Squad, while Robbie Brady and James McCarthy have returned to the international set-up. There is no room for veteran midfielder Glenn Whelan in the 23-man squad.ada Ireland boss Stephen Kenny named his first squad this […]

5 years ago

Bad news for Munster, Ireland and Carbery. Munster have today confirmed that Ireland outhalf Joey Carbery will be out for “an indefinite period of time.” Carbery underwent elective surgery earlier this year, on an ankle injury originally picked up in a World Cup warm-up last Autumn. This came while also rehabbing a wrist injury he […]

5 years ago

Hope you liked Gladiators… Have at it.

5 years ago

Football, hurling, golf, tennis… Soccer AM. It’s all in here. Let’s go.

5 years ago

A pick and mix of a quiz… The usual four rounds, the usual twenty questions… Full marks is very achievable today. Best of luck, and make sure you check out our other quizzes too.

5 years ago

Big fella, long shadow. There is a generation of Irish football fans who have no living or waking memory of Stuttgart, Genoa or Giants’ Stadium. Every Irish game they’ve ever watched has been tinged with a sadness, a longing for the scenes they grew up hearing about. Jack Charlton changed Irish football for us. He […]

5 years ago

Brought to you by Momenti Pizza from Dr. Oetker There’s full marks on offer here today. Good luck, and make sure to try our other quizzes here. Brought to you by Momenti Pizza from Dr. Oetker Dr. Oetker’s new Momenti Pizza is a small, great-tasting frozen pizza. The two flavours – Tomato, Mozzarella & Pesto and Salami Calabrase – contain up […]

5 years ago

“But you’ve got to maximise what you have, what can you do? That’s part of it.” You would be forgiven for thinking Stephen Kenny was perhaps talking about the players at his disposal in the above quote. Irish fans are very used to managers in the last ten years telling us that the squad they […]

5 years ago

Brought to you by Momenti Pizza from Dr. Oetker The Premier League is back… Day 88 of the SportsJOE 12 o’clock quiz is here as normal, four rounds and 20 questions, with a Premier League general knowledge round for the day that’s in it… Here we go. Brought to you by Momenti Pizza from Dr. Oetker Dr. Oetker’s new Momenti […]

6 years ago

Two fights are in the pipeline for 2021. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said it would be “entirely appropriate” for sports organisations and media organisations to “have nothing to do with” a potential fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua if Daniel Kinahan is involved. Tyson Fury thanked Kinahan for “getting (the) deal over the line” […]

6 years ago

Bohemians have issued a statement clarifying their training practices, after a video circulated on social media that appeared to show a training session taking place in a Dublin public park. The FAI announced on 12 March that all football activities in the state were to stop, in accordance with Covid-19 measures introduced by the government. […]

6 years ago

Y’all ready for this?

6 years ago

“Certainly, up here in the UK…” The reaction to Seán Cavanagh’s ‘United Kingdom’ comment shows just how difficult conversations around nationality are within the GAA; and how conversations around a United Ireland still largely comprise of people roaring at the top of their lungs and jamming their fingers in their ears.  A United Ireland, which so many […]

6 years ago

What have you got today? 20 questions, 4 rounds, unlimited bragging rights for you and your mates. It’s the 12 o’clock quiz.

6 years ago

No messing. Let’s get to it.

6 years ago

Not the news we wanted to hear. Across the world, with a few high profile exceptions, live sport has ground to a halt alongside most of normal day-to-day life. It seems like an age ago that debate was raging over whether Cheltenham should be going ahead or whether Liverpool’s game against Atletico Madrid should be […]

6 years ago

You want a quiz? We’ll give it ya. The 12 o’clock quiz is here. You know what to do.

6 years ago

“I want people to come to the Aviva Stadium and look forward to going and watching this team.” It’s unprecedented how often we have used the word unprecedented in the last few weeks. That the new Irish soccer manager’s first press conference was conducted in the sitting rooms or home office of the assembled press, […]

6 years ago

Fuelling the frontline. An Irish and UK nutrition brand, used to catering for elite athletes such as 19-time Grand Slam-winning tennis player Rafa Nadal, is now shipping its product to the main COVID-19 emergency field hospital in Madrid. The Ifema Convention Centre in the Spanish capital has been re-purposed as a temporary hospital during the ongoing […]

6 years ago

The 12 o’clock quiz is here. Looking forward to the four-day weekend? Any plans? Yeah, us neither. You know the drill. Four rounds. Twenty questions. Beating your mates. Check out the back catalogue here, here and here. Let us know how you get on.

6 years ago

“Are you not watching Finding Nemo?” We’ve all gotten quite used to the new normal inflicted upon us by Covid-19. We talk to our friends online-only, we work in our sitting rooms, there is no sport outside of the History Channel to be watching. Not a lot has gone, but everything has changed. In such unprecedented […]

6 years ago

It’s here. You may have no idea what day it is, but the SportsJOE 12 o’clock quiz is something you can set your watch to. 20 questions, 4 categories, and no one has gotten a full marks round yet. Get cracking.

6 years ago

Isolation is no excuse, apparently. With movement, and therefore exercise, limited by government restrictions to prevent the spread of Covid-19, we’ve all had to get a bit inventive when it comes to keeping in shape. No more so than Gareth Allen. Gareth is in the midst of raising money by running 12 100-mile races in […]

6 years ago

The club confirmed the punishment in a short statement. Irish international James McClean has been fined two weeks’ wages by his club Stoke City, after posting a picture on his Instagram account yesterday. He has also agreed to delete his account from the popular social media channel. The former Derry City man, who has experienced […]

6 years ago

We did it. We’ve all made it through another week of self-isolation, and your reward? Another weekend devoid of sport. But, before you start digging out old VHS tapes and frantically searching Jay-Jay Okocha’s name on YouTube, your daily fix of sporting trivia is here. If you’ve missed any of this week’s instalments, don’t worry. […]

6 years ago

We all have a role to play. Sports stars from the GAA and rugby world are supporting the HSE by asking everyone to play their part and help protect everyone from coronavirus, and more importantly, protect the vulnerable people around us. Some of Ireland’s best known GAA and rugby players are posting videos on social […]

6 years ago

You won’t get full marks. Manchester United fans haven’t had a huge amount to shout about the last few years, but that doesn’t stop them talking about what they managed back in 1999. They took the Premier League title away from Arsenal, rode their luck through to an FA Cup against Newcastle at Wembley before […]

6 years ago

What in Joe Canning’s name are we going to do with ourselves? Some people only started taking the Coronavirus seriously when Tom Hanks got it yesterday. I thought I was pretty up to speed with the whole thing, hard not to be when you’re surrounded by it daily in your work, but the panic really […]

6 years ago

Huge news coming out of UEFA this afternoon. According to reports in the French media this afternoon, the 2019/20 editions of the Champions League and Europa League will be suspended early next week, while the multi-city EURO 2020 tournament will be postponed until next year. A statement from UEFA this afternoon reads as follows; “UEFA […]

6 years ago

All tickets will be refunded. Ireland’s EURO 2020 playoff semi-final against Slovakia will be played behind closed doors, it was announced today. Mick McCarthy’s men are due to face off against Slovakia on Thursday 26th March, as they look to qualify for the tournament being held across a host of European cities, including Dublin, in […]

6 years ago

Two of the three games are confirmed to be postponed. This story was originally published at 10:53am, and updated at 13:15. Ireland’s game against France in Paris will not be going ahead on Saturday, As confirmed by French Minister for Sport Roxana Mărăcineanu in a statement this afternoon. #GuinnessSixNations Following instructions received from the authorities […]

6 years ago

Liverpool are making history. Other clubs are just reminiscing. For a long, fallow period, all Liverpool fans had was history. They were routinely mocked for it. Since winning their last league trophy in 1990, they have still, relatively regularly, picked up silverware; the FA Cup on three occasions, four League Cups, a UEFA Cup, two […]

6 years ago

The young lock has it all ahead of him. At just twenty years old, and still an Academy player, Leinster’s Ryan Baird has a huge future ahead in blue and green. A barn-storming performance from the young lock against Glasgow in the RDS on Friday night, including a hat-trick, has seen him called into Ireland’s […]

6 years ago

“The only people that went to provincial games were your family, and your friends and maybe a stray dog or two!” Are you someone who shouts at a television watching a game? If so, you’re definitely not alone. You’ve probably been told by someone around you that “you know they can’t hear you from the […]

6 years ago

“We’re going backwards and it’s very hard for Murr, for Johnny to kind of get any foothold in the game…” Two of Ireland’s leading lights seemed to take the brunt of the blame after Ireland’s 24-12 defeat to England in Twickenham on Sunday. Conor Murray and Johnny Sexton were under pressure coming into the tournament […]

6 years ago