Doyle lives up to her tag as tournament favouriteTennis/ Masters finals : Yvonne Doyle capped off a remarkable season at Castleknock over the weekend when she beat 16-year-old…Mon Sept 04 2006 - 01:00
Levova to meet Doyle in finalTENNIS/Masters' Series: In much better conditions than Thursday, the Danone Masters Series progressed to the final stages last…Sat Sept 02 2006 - 01:00
Teenager Levova puts her foot down earlyTennis Master's Finals The best thing with teenagers is always to let them have their wayFri Sept 01 2006 - 01:00
Doyle aiming to confirm her superiorityIn effect today, tomorrow and Saturday is the culmination of a summer's work for a number of the players who will be taking part…Thu Aug 31 2006 - 01:00
Hogan one of injured as Bradley names 22Connacht will hope to lead Irish involvement from the front when they kick off their Magner's Celtic League season this yearWed Aug 30 2006 - 01:00
Passmore gives youth a chance in Celtic CupMEN'S HOCKEY: Irish coach David Passmore has named a young squad to compete in the annual Celtic Cup tournament this weekend…Fri Aug 25 2006 - 01:00
Lack of props causes cancellationThe first competitive evening of the season in Donnybrook has been disrupted with the cancellation of the Leinster 'A' match …Fri Aug 25 2006 - 01:00
Liggan on cusp of US Open debutOn Tennis: When Ireland assembled a Federation Cup team earlier in the year, they knew before a ball was hit that, a little …Wed Aug 23 2006 - 01:00
Tournament on show down to a teeThis September's Ryder Cup in the K Club in tandem with the World Hall of Fame exhibition, which opened yesterday at the National…Thu Aug 17 2006 - 01:00
Tournament on show down to a teeThis September's Ryder Cup in the K Club in tandem with the World Hall of Fame exhibition, which opened yesterday at the National…Thu Aug 17 2006 - 01:00
Wrexham odyssey has lots of allure for NilandTennis: Wrexham, for all its undoubted virtues, does not readily conjure up images of the exotic and the far-flung.Wed Aug 16 2006 - 01:00
Life's a riot for hooligan hordes World Cup PR sidesteppedTV View: They swarmed across towards the bar en masseMon Aug 07 2006 - 01:00
Cheating costly for brazen PuertaOn Tennis: Taking drugs to win in sport can be looked at in purely gambling terms. A roll of the dice for huge rewardWed Aug 02 2006 - 01:00
Kiddies having porridge with smash-face wrestling on topTV View: Isn't it interesting how some of the shows that are shown at weekends before 8am should be X-rated?Mon Jul 31 2006 - 01:00
Ireland can expect tough weekendTENNIS/ Davis Cup: If rankings alone are to decide Ireland's fate against Slovenia in this Davis Cup match at Fitzwilliam, then…Fri Jul 21 2006 - 01:00
Tough opener for MunsterRUGBY/Rugby European Cup: Munster have never taken the view that there are easy Heineken European Cup matchesFri Jul 21 2006 - 01:00
Cup has its value despite cracksOn Tennis: The Davis Cup is a mishmash of a competitionWed Jul 12 2006 - 01:00
Kim sees big pictureKim Clijsters has never had the pulling power of Maria Sharapova or Venus Williams. Nor has she ever sought itThu Jul 06 2006 - 01:00
Nadal insists drug slurs without substanceThe accusations flying around appear to be without substance, but Rafael Nadal should have other things on his mind than having…Wed Jul 05 2006 - 01:00
No real shock as Venus fails to sparkleSo Venus Williams, who mixes tennis with interior design, gets beaten by a 21-year-old Serbian, Jelena Jankovic, ranked 29 in…Mon Jul 03 2006 - 01:00
Divas keep it short and sweetThe queens, the princesses and the high priestesses of world tennis graced the sun-kissed lawns for the first time yesterdayThu Jun 29 2006 - 01:00
Irish Open waiting for Wimbledon windfallOn Tennis: Unsurprisingly, the frenetic activity in Irish tennis in Limerick and now at Brookfield Tennis Club in Dublin has…Wed Jun 28 2006 - 01:00
Federer takes centre stage in bid to crash the partyTennis/ Wimbledon Championships: The feeling in London about Wimbledon is that this year's championship is a string quartet …Mon Jun 26 2006 - 01:00
Henman draws the short strawTENNIS/Wimbledon draw: Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Tim Henman has a ready-made excuse this yearSat Jun 24 2006 - 01:00
Roddick drops to third seedTennis/ Wimbledon : Andy Roddick will look at yesterday's seeding arrangements for Wimbledon and ask himself what he has done…Thu Jun 22 2006 - 01:00
Irish-language station proves a real aceOn Tennis: Back in the 1990s the RTÉ English-speaking networks believed Wimbledon was somethingWed Jun 21 2006 - 01:00
Champion punching way above her weightTennis : Justin Henin-Hardenne hopes to join an elite club today when she faces Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova in the French Open…Sat Jun 10 2006 - 01:00
Hingis makes a fresh startTENNIS/French Open: After a night's rest and some time to reflect on how her fourth-round match could have unravelled in front…Tue Jun 06 2006 - 01:00
Hingis hurries and Mauresmo motorsTennis: If the ease with which the top players advance through the first seven days is an indication of how these two weeks …Sat Jun 03 2006 - 01:00
Defending champion avoids the bad weatherTennis French Open: Once more the intemperate weather in Paris threw the Roland Garros schedule into chaos with the organisers…Fri Jun 02 2006 - 01:00
Injury hampers MurrayTennis: He reminds you of the leading bloke in that sweet but quirky Scottish film Gregory's GirlWed May 31 2006 - 01:00
Masters Series is well placed in grand schemeOn Tennis: When it comes to tennis talk in Ireland, there is a subject that brings a pall of gloom, an issue that nobody really…Wed May 24 2006 - 01:00
Niland flying high in sunny CaliforniaOn Tennis: Across The Bay Bridge from San Francisco, past Oakland and into Berkeley, you find yourself in one of California'…Wed May 17 2006 - 01:00
Glenanne out to make an impactMEN'S HOCKEY: Glenanne hope to get off to an eye-catching start this afternoon in Belfield against Corinthians in the first …Fri May 12 2006 - 01:00
No love game as Curran lets flyOn Tennis: The story headlined Patriot Games in the British-based magazine Ace should carry a kind of health warning for those…Wed May 10 2006 - 01:00
No Bull, we have cure for fatigueSo you've been feeling a little tired going down the final stretchTue May 09 2006 - 01:00
European spot at stake in club eventMen's Hockey/ Weekend preview : The 2006 Club Championships will be decided at the National Hockey Stadium at Belfield over …Fri May 05 2006 - 01:00
Rising stars look for gain in SpainOn Tennis: It may or may not have gone unnoticed over the weekend but a young Spanish teenager called Rafael Nadal took a record…Wed May 03 2006 - 01:00
Tough task for young IrishTennis: The Irish women's Federation Cup team today begin their bid for promotion from Euro-African Zone Group TwoWed Apr 26 2006 - 01:00
Not looking too far aheadDonncha O'Callaghan said the words few wanted to hear when the passion was still burning and the recollections of a match won…Mon Apr 24 2006 - 01:00
Both squads expected to be at full strengthNot unexpectedly, Leinster and Munster are giving themselves as much time as possible before declaring their hand for Sunday'…Wed Apr 19 2006 - 01:00
Ireland expect tough weekendTennis Davis Cup Ireland's weekend in the Tali Tennis Centre in Helsinki for their Davis Cup clash against Finland is expected…Fri Apr 07 2006 - 01:00
Burns back on trackMen's Hockey : The good news for Irish coach Dave Passmore is Karl Burns' hamstring injury, one he had been nursing for several…Fri Apr 07 2006 - 01:00
Green aims to stay on the bounceThe Leinster tighthead prop, Will Green, made his Wasps debut 11 years agoFri Apr 07 2006 - 01:00
Manning looks set to replace injured O'GaraNews round-up There is a strong possibility that Munster's Jeremy Manning will line out against the Newport Gwent Dragons this…Wed Apr 05 2006 - 01:00
Burns a welcome additionMEN'S HOCKEY / Round-up : The 18-man Irish squad for the BDO Hockey World Cup Qualifier in Changzhou, China, departs Dublin …Fri Mar 31 2006 - 01:00
Irish players may face NieminenTENNIS/Davis Cup: David O'Connell, Tristan Farron-Mahon and the two Sorensen brothers, Louk and Kevin, may shortly get a chance…Thu Mar 30 2006 - 01:00
Smyth breaks new ground and recordPARALYMPICS: It was inevitable that the day would arrive and last week it did when teenager Jason Smyth of Derry broke a 14-…Thu Mar 30 2006 - 01:00
Pembroke get better of GlenanneMen's Hockey Round-up: Not surprisingly, Pembroke were able to travel to St Mark's this weekend and grab two points from Glenanne…Mon Mar 27 2006 - 01:00
