Maradona's story might still inspireSideline Cut: One of the more troubling sporting headlines of the week reported that Diego Maradona had been rushed to hospital…Sat Mar 31 2007 - 01:00
Tired old team in need of a shake-upGroup D/TV View: Great teams get old in a jiffy. It is the same in any sportThu Mar 29 2007 - 01:00
Howzat for a relic from the distant pastSideline Cut : Ireland has to conquer twice this afternoon. Beating Wales is an absolute necessitySat Mar 24 2007 - 00:00
Cheltenham pilots our mortal superiorsSideline Cut : Cheltenham must be as good as they say because regular jockeys are tougher than the restSat Mar 17 2007 - 00:00
Coach with no pedigree breeding successSideline Cut: No matter how passionately the air of Flower of Scotland is delivered around Edinburgh this weekend, it will hardly…Sat Mar 10 2007 - 00:00
Keane aptitude should not surprise usSideline Cut: There may well be a little bunker in Roy Keane's garage reserved as a burial ground for the various trophies and…Sat Mar 03 2007 - 00:00
All the lonely people of John Lennon's childhoodMemoir: The Fab Four are a dwindling band of brothers nowadays but their music still effortlessly transcends wave after wave…Sat Feb 17 2007 - 00:00
Queen's song still strikes a delicate chordSideline Cut : The Artane Boy's Band may be busy practising the subtle brass notes of God Save the Queen this weekend but when…Sat Feb 17 2007 - 00:00
Maybe San Marino showed our true levelSideline Cut: Immediately after watching Ireland commit floodlit robbery against poor San Marino on Wednesday night, I turned…Sat Feb 10 2007 - 00:00
Maybe San Marino showed our true levelSideline Cut: Immediately after watching Ireland commit floodlit robbery against poor San Marino on Wednesday night, I turned…Sat Feb 10 2007 - 00:00
How many hits can rugby boys safely take?Sideline Cut: Only when you stand next to Ireland's elite rugby players do you get a true inkling of the sort of brain-shaking…Sat Feb 03 2007 - 00:00
Fan: a flailing device that blows hot and coldSideline Cut: Anyone who feared a gulf had developed between big-time sports stars and their fans probably thought differently…Sat Jan 27 2007 - 00:00
Glory days make Ali decline more movingSideline Cut: As Muhammad Ali celebrates 65 years of a life that has become one of the most glorified of the 20th century, …Sat Jan 20 2007 - 00:00
Beckham hasn't lost his sense of timingSideline Cut: You cannot teach street smarts, and news of David Beckham's flabbergasting transfer to LaLa Land is the final…Sat Jan 13 2007 - 00:00
O'Dwyer and Knight peerlessly plough onSideline Cut : It would be too much to hope that Mick O'Dwyer, the tireless survivor of Irish sport, will ever meet with Bob…Sat Jan 06 2007 - 00:00
Tenacious O'Gara reaps a fitting rewardSideline Cut: It seems longer than just last May since I sat down with Ronan O'Gara in a well-tended country house overlooking…Sat Dec 30 2006 - 00:00
All sporting life is going down youtubeSideline Cut : Despite being overwhelmed by the menu of live televised sport, we still find it in our souls to spare an hour…Sat Dec 16 2006 - 00:00
GAA must make room for Men in WhiteSideline Cut : It is high time the GAA began to "big up" the role of the umpireSat Dec 09 2006 - 00:00
Cross marks place we once loved wellSideline Cut: On Sunday, Crossmaglen Rangers will go for their fifth Ulster title, having ruled the roost in Armagh for the…Sat Dec 02 2006 - 00:00
Modern Clare great looks to parishesOpening of Michael Cusack visitor centre: With the rain whipping across the Burren and one voice addressing the sheltering crowd…Wed Nov 29 2006 - 00:00
Thorpe's exit as stylish as his entrySideline Cut: It is tough for the sport of swimming to breach the global headlines in the years between Olympiads, but the …Sat Nov 25 2006 - 00:00
Sports fans can be an unforgiving lotSideline Cut: Professional sport glides along so smoothly and looks so glossy you can often forget the performers are actually…Sat Nov 18 2006 - 00:00
Perilous times of the Black PearlBiography Many compelling voices and stories presenting the austere and often brutally numbing existence of children bound to…Sat Nov 18 2006 - 00:00
Australia 'fair' has whole other meaningSideline Cut: As the dust settles on the latest International Rules disaster, the no-bluster words of Kevin Sheedy, legendary…Sat Nov 11 2006 - 00:00
Series a catalyst for strange phenomenaSideline Cut: Wish we knew why Martin Sheen was in the crowd for the International Rules in Galway last Saturday nightSat Nov 04 2006 - 00:00
Fond memories of the Fighting IrishSideline Cut : In Manhattan on Thursday night, something of the spirit of the fighting Irish was raisedSat Oct 21 2006 - 01:00
Stan shows what sort of The Man he isSideline Cut: Imagine being Steve Staunton for the past weekSat Oct 14 2006 - 01:00
Glimpse of good old days at LansdowneTV View: After the longest week, the game seemed to pass by in secondsThu Oct 12 2006 - 01:00
Weep not for Mayo; look to yourselvesSideline Cut: On Sunday last, 82,000 people witnessed Kerry reconfirm their status as the insatiable, deathless winners of the…Sat Sept 23 2006 - 01:00
All-Ireland odyssey still the rail thingSideline Cut: There is a time-honoured tradition of travelling to All-Ireland finals by railSat Sept 16 2006 - 01:00
Loughnane tailor-made for Galway jobSideline Cut: Loughnane for Galway: it has the ring of the dream ticket about itSat Sept 09 2006 - 01:00
Mighty gesture by the mighty QuinnSideline Cut : English football would make for duller theatre without its pair of Irish mavericks, Roy Keane and Niall Quinn…Sat Aug 26 2006 - 01:00
O'Dwyer alchemy may not be enoughPreview/Laois v Mayo: This All-Ireland football quarterfinal has its attractions but it also illuminates the unsatisfactory …Sat Aug 12 2006 - 01:00
'In fairness to Donegal, we stole it in the end'All-Ireland SFC Quarter-Final/Cork v Donegal: Billy Morgan called it bestMon Aug 07 2006 - 01:00
Campbell a victim of random justiceSideline Cut: So, Paddy Campbell, Donegal's full back, has become the latest GAA player to feel the power of the Central Disciplinary…Sat Jul 22 2006 - 01:00
Respect among peers as deja vu kicks inConnacht SFC Final: All football is localMon Jul 17 2006 - 01:00
Intense rivalry should produce a crackerGalway v Mayo: Contrarians could complain that the Connacht final is no useSat Jul 15 2006 - 01:00
Head-first exit true to Zidane codeSideline Cut: About 10 years ago, Mike Murphy - he of The Live Mike and RTÉ's original renaissance man - was interviewing the…Sat Jul 15 2006 - 01:00
Armagh can just nick the rumble in the ParkUlster Final : Once again in Ulster the forces of light and dark convergeSat Jul 08 2006 - 01:00
May Zidane enjoy a last glorious encoreSideline Cut: There is always something heavily anti-climactic and even sad about the World Cup finalSat Jul 08 2006 - 01:00
Exuberant Limerick put troubles behind themLimerick 2-29 Offaly 2-19: Was this the rebirth? Limerick hurling people have known too much trauma and disappointment in the…Mon Jul 03 2006 - 01:00
Think 1990 before you knock UkraineSideline Cut: It is common for people to salivate over the thrilling, guilty pleasure of watching two countries reduced to the…Sat Jul 01 2006 - 01:00
Zidane rages against fading of the lightSideline Cut: Zinedine Zidane has become well acquainted with Lionel Messi through the hypnotic turns the slouching Argentinian…Sat Jun 24 2006 - 01:00
Shevchenko should see Ukraine safely throughGroup H Ukraine v Tunisia He waited long enough to get here but this afternoon in Berlin Andriy Shevchenko has a great chance…Fri Jun 23 2006 - 01:00
Germans' gut feeling impossible to resistSideline Cut: A week into this whistle-stop tour of Germany's pulsing football cities there is the blossoming sense that the…Sat Jun 17 2006 - 01:00
Time for France to find their feet and the netFrance v Sth Korea: Surely, surely, the ongoing saga of French stage fright in front of the posts will end tomorrow night in…Sat Jun 17 2006 - 01:00
Sweden hoping to get back to winning waysSweden's World Cup is threatening to unravelThu Jun 15 2006 - 01:00
