Ulster’s opposition threatens expanded Irish Hockey LeagueChief concerns centre on the impact on their own league, schools’ hockey and travel costsFri Sept 26 2014 - 01:00
O’Neill keeps options open as he prepares for next month’s testsManager announces provisional squad of 37 for the games against Gibraltar and GermanyWed Sept 24 2014 - 01:00
Martin O’Neill keeping his options openStill no word from West Ham’s Mark Noble and no place for Apoel frontman Cillian SheridanTue Sept 23 2014 - 11:40
Provincial champions get off to winning startsUCD, Cork Harlequins and Pegasus all open the defence of league titles with winsSun Sept 21 2014 - 17:06
Good God Almighty! Clash of All-Ireland Camogie ash finishes with Cork on topLong wait continues for Kilkenny despite ‘hare and hound’ battleMon Sept 15 2014 - 06:00
Murray in no hurry to stop as she loves her sportCork camogie goalkeeper Aoife Murray is all set for her eighth senior All-Ireland finalSun Sept 14 2014 - 13:40
Coghlan scoops sportswoman awardRepresentative of side that rose to the occasion and captured imagination of nationWed Sept 10 2014 - 01:00
Sky’s English viewers enthralled by Croke Park ‘cross between hockey and murder’Mon Sept 08 2014 - 14:10
Spillane ruined the moment by reminding Joe that ‘Cuba never played Gaelic football’Joe was struggling to let ‘Croke-Park- Unavailable’ bygones be bygonesMon Sept 01 2014 - 06:00
With Americans playing football in Croker, Limerick has to be a ladyLimerick does not seem to be a popular choice for semi-final . . . not to be insultingMon Aug 25 2014 - 06:00
Marty takes the mic out of Michael in a build-up of epic proportionsAlas, yesterday’s All-Ireland hurling semi-final at headquarters didn’t live up to the billingMon Aug 18 2014 - 06:00
Sportswoman of the MonthChloe Mustaki and gallant Irish U-19 squad punch well above their weightWed Aug 13 2014 - 01:00
Flush with success as Rory keeps RoryingAlliss’s gets all culinary as Garca hits a paella of an approach shotMon Jul 21 2014 - 06:00
Run on the Kleenex as time runs out on World Cup and BilloFarewell to a monumentally magical month and . . . a great broadcasterMon Jul 14 2014 - 01:00
Biggest World Cup losers? Brazilian Garth Brooks fans . . .Tears from country and western fans, Argentinians and Brazilians – it’s been emotionalThu Jul 10 2014 - 06:30
Samba Soccer: No, nay, Neymar. No, nay Neymar no moreMary Hannigan looks at the fallout from that Brazilian defeat to GermanyWed Jul 09 2014 - 21:27
Eins, zwei, drei . . . Germans do a number on David Louise and coIs this the worst Brazil side ever, they asked before kick-off. We soon had our answerWed Jul 09 2014 - 08:00
Katie Taylor and Stephanie Meadow jointly win awardDual winners for June Sportswoman of the Month after spectacular achievementsWed Jul 09 2014 - 01:00
There’s a world outside the World Cup, in fact several worlds, full of nostalgiaNovak Djokovic was second to George Hamilton for the weekend’s top performanceMon Jul 07 2014 - 06:00
World Cup TV: Poor divil Blerim Dzemali better not forget to put the bins outThe Hamman man predicts France will (Thomas) muller them in quarter-finals because Germany are rubbishWed Jul 02 2014 - 08:00
TV View: Gooch reveals his love of Costa Rica as Kenny continues to say noCunningham continues to paddle his own canoe to the bafflement of his fellow panellistsTue Jul 01 2014 - 07:05
Samba Soccer: Airlines high on something and fruity flagsWhat is it with airlines and Twitter and the World Cup?Mon Jun 30 2014 - 17:50
Snarling pundits left to chew over unsavoury tournament anticsEamo puts the boot in on his British peers while Gordon on ITV depresses all with his game devoid of moralsThu Jun 26 2014 - 23:55
Luis and Lionel – the contrasting fortunes of the Vampire and the VirtuosoAll Kay wanted to know was whether anything could be done to help Suarez stop chompingThu Jun 26 2014 - 06:30
TV View: It was a game that needed some bite . . . and Suarez obligedOnly one topic up for discussion as Teethgate dominates the airwavesWed Jun 25 2014 - 07:00
Click, Click . . . five goals missed as real challenge beginsMary Hannigan rises to challenge of trying to watch two matches at the same timeTue Jun 24 2014 - 02:00
Copacabana: music and passion and Cavan signs fashionedYou can’t keep a Cavan man down, not even on Rio’s famous beachMon Jun 23 2014 - 12:59
England kiss Brazil goodbye but no smacker for BalotelliMario’s blank saves Queen’s blushes as Costa Rica send Roy’s boys homeSat Jun 21 2014 - 01:00
Italy have Ballytelly but Uruguay have Luis’s cannonBullets over Glenn Hoddle and rockets over Joe Hart as Suarez outguns RooneyThu Jun 19 2014 - 23:07
N’do does not drop any F bombs on panel debutCameroon’s finest pleases the puntersThu Jun 19 2014 - 08:00
Samba Soccer: Mexican newspaper Razon the barGrandpa van Persie gets in on the act, Dunphy outdone by MowbrayWed Jun 18 2014 - 17:50
Pale faces in RTÉ as Eamon Dunphy makes it a bleepy dayImmortal words of ‘We’re not on air are we?’ with poor Didi stuck in the middleWed Jun 18 2014 - 15:19
World Cup TV View: Shearer, Shearer should have kept it shutAndrea Pirlo’s beard alone was enough to strike terror into English heartsMon Jun 16 2014 - 06:00
Ronnie sighs as he wonders where former champions Spain have goneMary Hannigan’s TV View from Day Two of Brazil 2014Sat Jun 14 2014 - 00:21
We’ve only just begun and Dunphy might be in this dress“David Luiz is silly, he’s a nuisance. He would be a liability even if he played in the League of Ireland”Thu Jun 12 2014 - 23:38
Puspure sportswoman of the monthRower ended Ireland’s long wait for major rowing championship medalWed Jun 11 2014 - 01:00
Sky the limit for sizzling sliotars but how about some info for GAA newcomers?Rachel and Brian need to raise the bar for tweeters such as Mike from ManchesterMon Jun 09 2014 - 06:00
It’s a lub-in for RTÉ’s World Cup panelSome new signings for the tournament but Billo is there for his last standFri Jun 06 2014 - 01:00
Argentina - Team ProfileTwice champions, twice runners-up, and only Brazil, Italy and Germany have appeared in more finalsThu Jun 05 2014 - 18:11
Nigeria - Team ProfileThey first qualified for the World Cup finals in 1994, and made a heckuva an impactThu Jun 05 2014 - 18:06
Iran - Team ProfileIran reached their first World Cup in 1978 but that was it for 20 yearsThu Jun 05 2014 - 17:55
Switzerland - Team ProfileHaving been regular qualifiers in the early years, Switzerland endured a drought in the 1970s and 1980sThu Jun 05 2014 - 17:26
Ecuador - Team ProfileEcuador made their World Cup finals debut in 2002, drawn with Italy, Mexico and CroatiaThu Jun 05 2014 - 16:56
Honduras - Team ProfileQuite a debut in ‘82, when they drew 1-1 with hosts Spain, before picking up another point against Northern IrelandThu Jun 05 2014 - 16:56
France - Team ProfileFrance have qualified for 13 World Cups through the ages, although, as we know, it would have been 12 if . . .Thu Jun 05 2014 - 16:56
South Korea - Team ProfileSouth Korea first qualified for the World Cup finals in 1954, one of eight times they’ve made itThu Jun 05 2014 - 16:46
Russia - Team ProfileTheir World Cup story hasn’t been a happy one since the break-up of the Soviet UnionThu Jun 05 2014 - 16:33
Algeria - Team ProfileThis will be their fourth finals, their finest hour came in 1982 when they beat West GermanyThu Jun 05 2014 - 16:25
Belgium - Team ProfileThis will be Belgium’s 12th appearance in the finals, their only success of note coming in 1986Thu Jun 05 2014 - 16:06
