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Sports speak

"Every horse can be beaten and will be beaten eventually."

Sat Mar 20 1999 - 00:00

Captain, my captains

Former Labour MP for Western Australia and legendary Australian hockey player Ric Charlesworth this week explained why he has…

Sat Mar 20 1999 - 00:00

Sweet Flutie

Doug Flutie , once dubbed too small to play in the US National Football League, has agreed to a four-year contract extension …

Sat Mar 20 1999 - 00:00

Teen sensations

Arsenal, Arsenal, not so boring Arsenal, have been accused of poaching young talent after moving in for the whizzkid of German…

Sat Mar 20 1999 - 00:00

Run and rest

The magazine Irish Runner did the athletes of Ireland something of a service recently when reporting from Kenya, the home of …

Sat Mar 20 1999 - 00:00

Simple but deadly Campbell triumph

A sun-kissed Ravenhill and a crowd in T-shirts, the day was made for a school's final

Thu Mar 18 1999 - 00:00

O'Flanagan denies breaches of IOC bidding guidelines

Former International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Dr Kevin O'Flanagan yesterday denied he had breached IOC guidelines during…

Tue Mar 16 1999 - 00:00

DLSP go top with powerful display

Malone relinquished their position at the top of the Division Two table when Sunday's Well produced one of their better performances…

Mon Mar 15 1999 - 00:00

Staunton supplies cutting edge

A team yearning to evolve perhaps more quickly than is possible, struggling Blackrock still believe that they have a future but…

Mon Mar 15 1999 - 00:00

Want to buy a referee?

GERMAN soccer referees should wear advertisements on their shirts, their spokesman argued this week

Sat Mar 13 1999 - 00:00

Quotes of the Week

"Yes I have"

Sat Mar 13 1999 - 00:00

Soccer moves forward

RUGBY'S 10-yard advancement rule to punish dissent might be adopted by FIFA within two years after a successful pilot scheme …

Sat Mar 13 1999 - 00:00

Snooker misses the red

LOVE and understanding in the board room appears to be the last thing on the minds of the board of the World Professional Billiards…

Sat Mar 13 1999 - 00:00

Tennis strokes

TENNIS fans who missed the conundrum earlier in the week can now try their luck at answering trivia

Sat Mar 13 1999 - 00:00

Sydney transports of joy

SYDNEY are hopeful that their organisation will be better than poor Atlanta's for the Olympic games next year

Sat Mar 13 1999 - 00:00

Top five push for final berth

Division three teams go into the final phase of their season when the table is split into two groups of five teams - an A and…

Wed Mar 10 1999 - 00:00

English pressure pays off

Squandered chances in the opening 20 minutes saw this game trail away from the Irish Universities at College Park yesterday

Sat Mar 06 1999 - 00:00

Laois cry foul

There was apparently enough revenge, cries of betrayal and melodrama to engage a team of Jacobean playwrights at last weekend…

Sat Mar 06 1999 - 00:00

No go for motoring logo this time

The infamous car manufacturer's logo that had some players reaching for the makeup remover in Ireland's opening game against …

Thu Mar 04 1999 - 00:00

Blackrock knock out valiant Clongowes in cup thriller

Occasionally you watch a schools match and leave the ground thinking that such was the quality it should have been the final

Mon Feb 22 1999 - 00:00

Classic comment

It appears that jockey and newspaper columnist Norman Williamson is no real thoroughbred when it comes to diplomacy

Sat Feb 20 1999 - 00:00

Abandon plan for stadium says Allen

Former Minister for Sport Bernard Allen TD (FG) told an Oireachtas committee yesterday that any plans for a government-funded…

Fri Feb 19 1999 - 00:00

McCullough has title shot

Wayne McCullough's performance against Naseem Hamed in his failed WBO featherweight title fight last October in Atlantic City…

Wed Feb 17 1999 - 00:00

Irish cyclist in dispute over test on sample

A dispute has broken out between an Irish cyclist, Theresa Quinlan, and the governing body of her sport the Union Cycliste Internationale…

Wed Feb 17 1999 - 00:00

Malone in total control

Malone are beginning to look settled at the top of division two

Mon Feb 15 1999 - 00:00

Records give sleepy season a timely jolt

Athletics' sleepy season woke up prematurely and with a considerable jolt over the weekend

Mon Feb 15 1999 - 00:00

Garryowen smitten in St Valentine's Day mugging

They invited 200 women up to Dooradoyle for lunch to celebrate St Valentine's Day and it was Garryowen who left with a Lansdowne…

Mon Feb 15 1999 - 00:00

Clongowes gallop away

A score-line which speaks for itself unfolded in two acts yesterday at Donnybrook

Mon Feb 15 1999 - 00:00

The no-go logo

Little doubt Irish soccer team sponsor Arnold O'Byrne and his Opel comrades were delighted to see the Nissan logo still plastered…

Sat Feb 13 1999 - 00:00

Claim on test container confirmed

The Black and Decker company which makes the Versapak containers used to transport urine samples from tested athletes yesterday…

Fri Feb 12 1999 - 00:00

De Bruin heartened by test findings

Michelle De Bruin's legal team yesterday expressed satisfaction following revelations by a doctor in England that the containers…

Thu Feb 11 1999 - 00:00

McDaid asks for explanation

The attitude adopted by three international sports federations towards athletes caught using performance enhancing drugs is causing…

Wed Feb 10 1999 - 00:00

UCD strong favourites for Colours clash

For the first time in the history of the Colours match between Trinity and UCD the match will be contested by two bona fide rugby…

Wed Feb 10 1999 - 00:00

St Mary's on track

Bigger, stronger and with pace down the flanks, particularly the right where winger James Norton did so much damage, St Mary'…

Mon Feb 08 1999 - 00:00

Irish blues

French domination of Ireland in the Five Nations is the most complete between any two teams in the competition according to match…

Sat Feb 06 1999 - 00:00

Minister still keen on criminal sanctions

Minister for Tourism and Sport Dr Jim McDaid yesterday reiterated that he is considering applying criminal sanctions against …

Fri Feb 05 1999 - 00:00

Blackrock stage a late show of superiority

To say Blackrock were fortunate would be to stretch the truth and to declare St Michael's were easily beaten would be a fallacy…

Tue Feb 02 1999 - 00:00

Garryowen hold the line

A second successive defeat, the third of the season, and Shannon find themselves in the rare position of struggling to keep up…

Mon Feb 01 1999 - 00:00

UCC survive early scare to experience just a perfect day

The Irish played like the French, running, hitting, passing, full of passion and invention and the French played an Irish pattern…

Mon Feb 01 1999 - 00:00

The Magnificent Seven

Peters 1972, Seville 1982, McGuigan 1985. Ulster has had its fair share of sporting victories to celebrate over the years.

Sat Jan 30 1999 - 00:00

Old spice

Maeve Kyle, the three times Olympic sprinter and former international hockey player, is successfully striking a blow against …

Sat Jan 30 1999 - 00:00

UCC also face French test

In a pleasant aperitif to the main match of the weekend in Lansdowne Road today, UCC should provide an entertaining game at Donnybrook…

Sat Jan 30 1999 - 00:00

Swim Ireland report awaited

While there was a representative from the Irish Sports Council at Sunday's meeting in Dublin when the Irish Amateur Swimming …

Tue Jan 26 1999 - 00:00

Difficult birth for Swim Ireland

Yesterday, amid anger and recrimination, the Irish Amateur Swimming Association (IASA), founded over 100 years ago, went out …

Mon Jan 25 1999 - 00:00

New body is born in bitterness

Yesterday's bitter Irish Amateur Swimming Association (IASA) a.g.m

Mon Jan 25 1999 - 00:00

D'Arcy outstanding in Lansdowne victory

Headquarters produced a one-sided game that said more about Blackrock's difficulties than Lansdowne's potential to be challenging…

Mon Jan 25 1999 - 00:00

Sports Speak: The week in quotes

"He's correct."

Sat Jan 23 1999 - 00:00

Flo goes against flow

Tore Andre Flo (right) has caused a furore in Norway

Sat Jan 23 1999 - 00:00

De Bruin appeal delayed further

Michelle De Bruin's appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has again been deferred, probably until May

Sat Jan 23 1999 - 00:00

In the Brazilian camp

Top Brazilian soccer team Corinthians are having difficulty restricting their players' extra-curricular activities

Sat Jan 23 1999 - 00:00
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