Sport

Football returns and the clubhouse is (nearly) ready

Kathrin Kobus It was a long interruption no one had truly anticipated back in March when suddenly the Covid 19 crisis grew much larger and stopped everything, not just on the sports level, in its tracks. The football leagues were […]

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Stephen Kenny takes over as Ireland manager

David Prendeville One very small piece of good news to come about over the last number of weeks is that Mick McCarthy’s reign of terror as Ireland manager has come to an end. I’ve documented in this paper the absurd […]

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Crossing the Sea

BY Gordon P Kelly III and editor The Poolbeg Yacht club sent us the following story, how a buoy which made a journey from North Carolina to the other side of the Atlantic is now a snug at their yacht […]

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JOHNNY GAVIN: THE GOAL MACHINE

By Gavan Bergin Johnny Gavin was born in 1928 in Limerick. By the time he left school he had become one of the top footballers in Limerick and at the age of 19 he was playing with the League of […]

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Euro 2020 postponed

By David Prendeville In this time of great uncertainty the precarious position this crisis has left soccer in is utterly trivial. However, while trying to pass the time in the depths of our solitude, we might as well, and consider […]

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Kingdom Kerry call LGFA

By Kathrin Kobus It is quite a mouthful title “Gourmet Food Parlour HEC Championships” which will come to a conclusion the weekend after next when the semis and finals will be played on the 13th and 14th of March in […]

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Game is on – #20×20

BY Kathrin Kobus There were smiles all around from the six female rugby players, three from Railway Union, and three from Suttonians who met earlier today at the Sandymount hotel instead of a rugby pitch. #Changethegame – is an initiative […]

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Charlie O’Hagan The Entertainer – part 2

By Gavan Bergin Charlie O’ Hagan played his second international game for Ireland against Wales in Belfast on April 4th 1905. In that match Ireland started poorly, with Wales dominating the early stages. Though Ireland won the ball back quickly […]

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Railway Union Ladies Hockey Team win Leinster Indoor League 2019-20

HookHockey.com Lily Lloyd’s perfectly placed double saw Railway Union retain the Leinster Women’s Indoor League as they withstood Muckross’s late rush in the final at St Columba’s. She opened the scoring when Orla Fox picked her out on the edge […]

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Lansdowne back to winning ways with new head coach

By Kathrin Kobus Things are picking up again for Lansdowne FC. After a string of losses last October and November in the AIL since the Clontarf away game on the 29th November, the trend is upwards again. For that game […]

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