The Ireland Coaching Team have named a 35-player squad to complete the final two rounds of the 2020 Guinness Six Nations Championships. The squad which will be captained by Johnny Sexton (on right) contains six uncapped players – Ryan Baird, […]
Read more →David Prendeville Ireland’s dream of playing in next year’s rescheduled European Championships is no more, after they were beaten on penalties by Slovakia in the play off semi-final. The boys in green had played out a 0-0 in Slovakia before […]
Read more →Gavan Bergin Joe Bambrick was born on November 3rd 1905 in the Grosvenor Road area of Belfast. As a boy Joe was exceptionally good at football, and he grew up into one of the best players in Belfast youth football.At […]
Read more →Felix O”Regan As in many other organisations and locations, the Covid-19 pandemic brought a strong sense of community to the fore at Clanna Gael Fontenoy (Clanns). This was particularly evident in a number of initiatives that saw support and assistance […]
Read more →BY editor Clubs within the administrative area of Dublin City Council, and are affiliated with a national governing body recognised by Sport Ireland are invited to apply for the COVID 19 Club Small Grant Scheme. The COVID-19 club small grant […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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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