In a World Cup year, conversation will often turn to the question of who were the greatest footballers ever to have played for Ireland. Debate can be fierce, and everyone will have their own choice of those who should or […]
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As the end of the rowing season is fast approaching, we are getting ever nearer to the annual Hope Cup/Row event. The Hope Cup/Run competition is a new event that was kickstarted last year by The Stella Maris Rowing Club […]
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You might assume without reading Dominic Branigan’s historical account of the sporting club, Clonliffe Harriers (Original Writing €20), that it’s another bland historical book. Instead, what you get is a well-written and researched account of a club that began way […]
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In the 1950s, my mother often spoke of Mrs Streake and her long-lost son Sean. In the late 1930s, Sean left for Spain to fight Franco’s fascists in that ugly civil war. Mrs Streake had shops in Richmond Street, Kelly’s […]
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Following the success of the Irish Senior Cricket team at the 2007 Cricket World Cup, the sport has enjoyed a renaissance of sorts in the nation’s capital, and nowhere is that revival more evident than in the Dublin 4 area. […]
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Our U-14 players have given the club plenty to cheer about in recent weeks. They captured the Division 4 Féile title in football, and the club came close to making it a double, just losing out in extra time in […]
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Well that was close, panic over – for now at least, CY live to fight another day. Actually, in the end, survival in the top flight of the Leinster Senior League was secured with three league games to spare. On […]
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Dooley inspires Railway Union to big win over Atasport in Holland at Easter. Railway Union produced Ireland’s first win in the top tier of European women’s club hockey as they saw off Azerbaijan side Atasport 5-2 in their seventh place […]
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There were big celebrations at Railway Union’s Annual Ball on May 10th when 170 people gathered in the Davenport Hotel to cap a fantastic season. Railway have won an amazing 14 trophies in two seasons, 10 of them Leinster Pennants. […]
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The Clanna Gael Fontenoy Club prides itself on being more than just a sporting club, it’s an integral part of its surrounding community. None more so evident than in Alice Larkin’s recent receipt of a Sean Moore Community Award for […]
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