Keane's €90 million transfer outlay far from successfulROY KEANE'S RESIGNATION: WHILE several of the transfer fees for players brought to Sunderland by Roy Keane were undisclosed, …Fri Dec 05 2008 - 00:00
Ireland travel to Russia in June for challenge eventWOMEN'S HOCKEY WEEKEND PREVIEW: IRELAND'S SCHEDULE for 2009 will include a trip to Kazan, Russia in June for the inaugural Champions…Fri Dec 05 2008 - 00:00
Glenanne take their chanceMEN'S HOCKEY : JUST TWO matches in the second round of the Irish Hockey League (IHL) survived the weekend elements, with the…Mon Dec 01 2008 - 00:00
Railway Union claim bonus pointWOMEN'S HOCKEY: THE SCHEDULE of matches for the second round of the women's Irish Hockey League might have proved more weather…Mon Dec 01 2008 - 00:00
Dolan doesn't much like tone of SundIreland's shoddy rebellionTV VIEW: THAT WAS a wintry old weekend, enough to have you pining for a trip to somewhere sultry, like, say, West Cocoa Beach…Mon Dec 01 2008 - 00:00
Loreto set to test old rivalsWOMEN'S HOCKEY: ROUND TWO of the Irish Hockey League gets under way tomorrow with 10 teams in action, before Loreto and Pegasus…Fri Nov 28 2008 - 00:00
'Maradona of the Crumlins' to herald new era in Irish soccerTV VIEW: IT WOULDN'T be entirely accurate to say that last week marked the launch of the "Bring Back Steve Staunton and Eddie…Mon Nov 24 2008 - 00:00
Ireland go down to their third defeatWOMEN'S HOCKEY: IRELAND WENT down to their third defeat of the weekend by Scotland at Banbridge yesterday, the visitors adding…Mon Nov 24 2008 - 00:00
Muller has chance to survey optionsWOMEN'S HOCKEY: WITH SEVERAL of Gene Muller's more established players missing from his squad for the three games against Scotland…Fri Nov 21 2008 - 00:00
Sidwell's vows have lasting appealPLANET SOCCER: WHEN WE read last week about Jermaine Pennant proposing to his Page Three girlfriend in a graveyard we were going…Mon Nov 17 2008 - 00:00
Brent can't bare it as All Blacks haka all over our pipe dreamsTV VIEW : "NOTHING IS impossible, impossible is nothing" had been our mantra for the day that was in it, but by the time we …Mon Nov 17 2008 - 00:00
Irish start season against ScotlandHOCKEY: THE IRELAND women's team will get the international season under way in Banbridge next week with three matches against…Fri Nov 14 2008 - 00:00
Perry powers her way back to the topIRISH TIMES/IRISH SPORTS COUNCIL SPORTSWOMEN AWARD FOR OCTOBER: Madeline Perry (Squash) : SOME FAMILIAR names to our sportswomen…Wed Nov 12 2008 - 00:00
Fingal do it the hard way againHOCKEY : JUST LAST week Fingal co-coach John McInerney remarked on his side's "habit of coming from behind" after a string of…Mon Nov 10 2008 - 00:00
Table football may be the way to go with all this stormy aimsirTV VIEW: WE THOUGHT of Jim Stevens yesterday when we tuned in to TG4 for the club championships and saw a near horizontal Micheál…Mon Nov 10 2008 - 00:00
No change as top three drawHOCKEY : IT'S AS you were at the top of the Leinster First Division after the weekend's games, after Railway Union maintained…Mon Nov 10 2008 - 00:00
UCD's impressive run to continueHOCKEY: THEY MIGHT be a little weary from their exertions in Kilkenny earlier in the week but UCD's confidence should be up …Fri Oct 31 2008 - 00:00
Footsie rallies as 'Arry takes shares in North London ventureTV VIEW: SKY NEWS is to be avoided these nights, particularly around the time the stock exchange thingies are opening on the…Mon Oct 27 2008 - 00:00
Monkstown rely on 12th man, Three Rock go topHOCKEY: THERE WERE only two Leinster First Division fixtures at the weekend, but between them they produced 14 goals, eight …Mon Oct 27 2008 - 00:00
Prescriptions at the ready as we get ready to pummelTV VIEW: WE THOUGHT of Martin Keown on Saturday when we were flicking through our digital world of sport to see what was on …Mon Oct 20 2008 - 01:00
Loreto off to flying start as Delany grabs threeTHE INAUGURAL weekend of the Irish Hockey League produced five highly competitive matches, only Loreto posting a comprehensive…Mon Oct 20 2008 - 01:00
New format to boost game's profile and raise standardsWOMEN'S HOCKEY: IT WAS a long time in the planning and its format had to be fine-tuned before being accepted by all the branches…Fri Oct 17 2008 - 01:00
Railway keep up good startWOMEN'S HOCKEY : A WEEK ahead of their Irish Hockey League meeting with Pegasus in Belfast, Railway Union maintained their perfect…Mon Oct 13 2008 - 01:00
The King is wrong in the 'ead as Barney rules the ocheTV VIEW : THE CITYWEST Hotel was, Sky Sports presenter Dave Clark promised us, rocking when we tuned in for the semi-finals …Mon Oct 13 2008 - 01:00
Convincing wins ahead of IHL matchesMEN'S HOCKEY : THREE ROCK Rovers and Pembroke Wanderers both warmed up for the inaugural matches in the Irish Hockey League …Mon Oct 13 2008 - 01:00
Muller calls up elite for 'Super Camp'WOMEN'S HOCKEY: THERE'S A full league programme this weekend but several clubs will be without key players after Ireland coach…Fri Oct 10 2008 - 01:00
Logue gets started with UCDWOMEN'S HOCKEY WEEKEND PREVIEW: THE STUDENTS of Trinity and UCD get their league seasons under way tomorrow against Hermes and…Fri Oct 03 2008 - 01:00
Hard to give a continental as Europe begins to fragmentTV VIEW : WHEN WE saw those disgruntled kilted chaps carrying a life-size cardboard cut-out of Monty Montgomerie around that…Mon Sept 22 2008 - 01:00
Yee haw, Ryder cowboys, here's Pawd-rayg Harrison . . .TV VIEW: "LAAAAAAYDEEES AND GENTLEMEN," said the announcer in one of those spine-tinglin', goosebump-inducin', fist-pump-inspirin…Sat Sept 20 2008 - 01:00
Ted puts wind up Hall but Curtin draws colour from Marty's cheeksTV VIEW : SKY SPORTS asked the man from Easy Cleaning Services how he'd feel if Manchester United equalled Liverpool's 18 league…Mon Sept 15 2008 - 01:00
Blue and white turned black and blue by awesome Big CatsTV VIEW: IT'S USUALLY only when the lion's about to pounce on the gazelle that we cover our screen with Aertel, Ceefax or whatever…Mon Sept 08 2008 - 01:00
Gooch Almighty stops Brolly making a holy show of himselfTV VIEW : IT WAS the Speed 3 episode of Fr Ted when Fr Dougal, doing a nixer as the Craggy Island milkman, discovered his milk…Mon Sept 01 2008 - 01:00
Georgia still hope to play in TbilisiINTERNATIONAL NEWS: AHEAD OF the deadline set for today by Fifa for an alternative venue to be named for Saturday week's World…Tue Aug 26 2008 - 01:00
Horseplay has us choking on our sugar cubesOLYMPIC TV VIEW: BEDECKED IN our jodhpurs and hard hat, whip in hand, with a bowl of sugar lumps all set to nibble on, we were…Fri Aug 22 2008 - 01:00
Channel swimming leaves us all at seaOLYMPIC TV: IT WAS only last week that a Dr Klaus Kallmayer from the City Hospital in Dubai warned that those intending watching…Mon Aug 11 2008 - 01:00
Davis delivers on promise ahead of scheduleALREADY THIS year on our list of monthly award winners we had two young sportswomen, Chloe Magee (badminton) and Siobhán Byrne…Wed Jul 09 2008 - 01:00
Water water everywhere and nowhere for Brolly to hideTV VIEW: THE DELUGE began at Silverstone, veered west to Páirc Uí Chaoimh and back again towards southwest London, although …Mon Jul 07 2008 - 01:00
Ted loses his trolley as Gilesie gives Dustin run for his moneyTV VIEW : THE BOOKIES were beaming as they queued up to have a chat with RTÉ's Brian Gleeson at the Curragh, a bit of a hint…Mon Jun 30 2008 - 01:00
Hair-raising odysseys in the land of What Might Have BeenTV VIEW: AS WE MADE our way from Auckland to Melbourne to Nowlan Park to Innsbruck to Salzburg to Donnybrook and on to Torrey…Mon Jun 16 2008 - 01:00
Maguire twins up there with the bestIRISH TIMES/IRISH SPORTS COUNCIL SPORTSWOMAN OF THE MONTH WHEN SCOTLAND'S Carly Booth became the youngest ever player to represent…Wed Jun 11 2008 - 01:00
Clare end drought in the heat as TV3 enter Championship frayTV VIEW: 'TWENTY-THREE degrees in the shade - it must be the Munster hurling championship," as Mike Finnerty put it in his …Mon Jun 02 2008 - 01:00
Pinching themselves to see if it's realSEÁN SCANNELL, the 17-year-old Crystal Palace winger, admitted to having spent much of the past week pinching himself, struggling…Sat May 24 2008 - 01:00
Keane set for pivotal roleHAVING MISSED out on the training week in the Algarve Robbie Keane, the Republic of Ireland captain, and Richard Dunne joined…Fri May 23 2008 - 01:00
Cashley denies Ronaldo a clean sweepIT WAS John O'Shea who ruefully conceded two years ago that Manchester United had been usurped, no longer the holders of a much…Sat May 17 2008 - 01:00
Green light for Beijing proves fitting reward for ByrneIRISH TIMES SPORTSWOMAN OF THE YEAR: THE LINK between Ardcalf, Eislingen, Ohio and Beijing might not, perhaps, be immediately…Wed May 14 2008 - 01:00
For some, with victory there is still no survival on massive dayTV VIEW: ALEX McLEISH, Steve Coppell and Roy Hodgson were probably delivering the same words to their players at that precise…Mon May 12 2008 - 01:00
Norn Irons glamourous lifestyle never gets goingTV VIEW: IT WAS, perhaps, the moment Leeanne Druse swallowed a fly while watching her boyfriend, Armagh Gaelic footballer Ronan…Mon May 05 2008 - 01:00
