‘You can’t be friends and do the job at the same time’: Didi Hamann on the art of punditry
The Liverpool and Germany great talks about making RTÉ home, maintaining your distance from players, picking up tips from Dunphy and dealing with online abuse
Eamon Dunphy
World Cup podcast: Turkey crash out but other dark horses stay in the race
America 2026 with Kevin Kilbane and Paul Howard
Michael Jackson was breathtaking at Páirc Uí Chaoimh. But what was the 10-year-old doing at his hotel?
While the king of pop – the subject of a new biopic – was thrilling audiences in Cork in 1988, concerned reporters were offering to help James Safechuck escape
From football hero to grey-bearded influencer, how Roy Keane has shaped modern Ireland
No Irish athlete has endured so much public ownership or endeared themselves to our hearts as he has
Social Democrats TD misses out on €1m from Palantir share boom off the back of Ice contracts
Plus: Eamon Dunphy’s Michelin star mission; the Washington Post lays off a reporter in a war zone; and the pagans strike back
‘My mother probably has the rosary beads swallowed’: Top sports quotes of 2025
From Troy Parrott to Ellen Walshe, here are the year’s memorable sporting quotes of the year
Matt Cooper’s acerbic presidential election remark pays off
Radio: The Today FM host is dependably thorough when he interviews Catherine Connolly and, at last, Heather Humphreys
I’ve just seen Saipan, The Movie. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t end well
Roy Keane’s clash with Mick McCarthy before the 2002 World Cup is living history in Ireland. Audiences elsewhere might not know what to make of their square-off
Eamon Dunphy and Jane Gogan to put The Stand podcast on ‘a long pause’
Couple say they have no plans to retire but have ‘long standing commitments’ to other projects they must attend to
Pep Guardiola gets in a fresh scrape as Manchester City continue to flatline
Christmas miracle as Eamon Dunphy has League of Ireland epiphany; Pompey wipe the smile off Frank Lampard’s face
Will Simon Harris fare any better on housing than Leo Varadkar? Let’s just hope his views have evolved since 2013
An English case with Enoch Burke overtones; loud objections to Morning Ireland; Stuart Carolan goes cockney; and Daft brother buys big in D6
Eamon Dunphy’s classic ‘Only A Game?’ is still as fresh and real as ever, 50 years later
‘I did it to try and understand myself. And also to try and give young lads a sense of what this game was really like. Because everybody wanted to be a footballer. But this is pain’
A volcanic eruption in Saipan and Roy Keane is sent home
Part two of an In The News special on the farce and the tragedy of Saipan
Keith Duggan: Forget Euro 2028, Irish soccer’s awakening has begun
Domestic league is on the up and national team is selling out the Aviva for friendlies
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices