Standing in Croke Park last July for the 25th anniversary of Cork’s 1999 All-Ireland hurling win, Ben O’Connor remembers looking around and finding it hard to absorb that it had actually been that ...
There’s something almost Sisyphean about the lot of an All-Ireland championship runner up. You’re close, so close, to getting that boulder over the crest of the hill and then, just like that, you're ...
With stories set in Ancient Rome, Gilded Age New York, and more, these are the most anticipated historical fiction books of ...
His wife’s great-grandfather, Hugh Larkin, a peasant and cottier from Galway, transported in 1833 to Van Diemen ... Page after page about diseases of the famine, technical details of journeys and ...
Ex-NRL player Abraham Papali'i is now well-settled in the Top 14 following a brutal introduction to European rugby union.
By Cian O'Connell The 23rd series of TG4's Laochra Gael continues on Thursday evening when Kerry's Marc Ó Sé reflects on his ...
You only have to clock the massive spend on county teams to realise any drop in gate receipts will hit the balance sheet hard. No manager will want to be responsible for it.
Maybe they’ll manage both in 1995. They’ll surely manage one. Limerick, the superior team four months ago for all but the ...
They ended an 11 year famine. Our, by then 46 year ... The worst is losing a final, the second worst was Galway winning a pair of finals with Mayo man John O’Mahony in charge. Those were hard winters ...
Monaghan fan Tony Keenan pays tribute following the news that Conor McManus has hung up the boots MY wife tells me I’m not ...