AN URGENT warning has been issued for thousands of Irish rail customers ahead of the busy weekend across the country. Passengers are being urged to check...
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I can’t remember a feeling like the one I had on Sunday night, watching Rory McIlroy lose the US Open. I’m a supporter of a few...
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We do a lot of giving out about football, in these pages and everywhere else. But there’s no denying that it was a cracking weekend. There...
MANY OF THE NEW RULES proposed by the Football Review Committee were trialled in a Gaelic football game in Mullingar on Saturday afternoon. The committee, led...
VERY little about Hyde Park on Sunday looked familiar. No diggers. No cordons. Not a fleck of grey concrete or railing visible on the terraces. No...
LEAGUE OF IRELAND fans’ ears pricked up last week when they were referenced by Labour MEP Aodhán Ó Ríordáin after he was elected for Dublin. Ó...
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Here’s the thing. There have never been more matches, and there has never been so much ho-humming. The football championship, one of the vital organs of...
A TRIAL RUN of the new rules imposed to improve Gaelic Football will take place around Ireland this weekend. A number of ‘sandbox’ (a term taken...
The head-to-head rule will be used to separate two teams who finish on the same number of points, while score difference will be used should three...
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You can say this much for the Football Review Committee – it is making sure the whole thing is being given proper attention. You put Jim...
LIMERICK’S hurlers are living out a dream à la The Cranberries song they’re by now so synonymous with. The good times continued on Sunday as they...
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The Football Review Committee (FRC) is about to embark on a series of “sand box” or trial matches to gather evidence on the feasibility of various...