WITH 12 minutes to go in the 1972 hurling final, the Cats were in dire straits, trailing by eight points [...]
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Kieran McGeeney said before last Sunday’s Division Two final that Tyrone were the Barcelona of Gaelic football. Long before the [...]
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CAVAN’S senior squad are in disarray after Dubliner Val Andrews was forced out last week in the mouth of the [...]
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THE OBSERVER’S renowned golf writer Peter Dobereiner, who died in 1997, once wrote, “Ever since the beheading of the first [...]
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“BOYS!” roared the middle aged man, slapping the changing room table. “The referee’s a South Derry b*****d, the lines men [...]
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“I’M NOT prejudiced but if a coon moved in next door, I’d move, like most white people would. If my [...]
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ENDA Muldoon announced his retirement from county football last week. It was fitting that the occasion was a match at [...]
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Fifteen minutes into the Derry last home game against Monaghan at Celtic Park, as Derry soloed along their half back [...]
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IN March last year, Oey Mantsho, a 27 year old referee with the South African rugby federation, was walking to [...]
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WHEN Páraic Duffy’s discussion document on Manager Payments was released a few months ago, county officials were asked by Croke [...]
Read More...IN A column on the back of the Irish Times on monday, Brian O’Connor, a horse racing journalist, wrote a [...]
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IN one of Billy Connolly’s most memorable sketches, he suggested a new British national anthem. His theory was that the [...]
Read More...WHEN Down’s legendary forward and current manager Wee James McCartan applied for a transfer from his club Tullylish to Burren [...]
Read More...JOE Duffy had the outraged southern masses queuing up last week to vent their spleen about those dirty Tyrone men [...]
Read More...BBC Northern Ireland aired a fascinating documentary recently. It began with footage of the 12th July parade on Belfast’s Shankill [...]
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“Every hour God sends” was the response I received to a text I sent to one of the Derry lads [...]
Read More...THE holiday kicked off in Dungiven with the annual Kevin Lynch’s Fight Night. Eoghan Quigg, the X-Factor starlet from the [...]
Read More...FOR a man who missed the penalty that lost Derry the 1970 All-Ireland minor semi-final, Martin O'Neill has come a [...]
Read More...THE Donegal county board secretary Aodh Mairtín Ó Fearaigh has used his report to the weekend's county convention to attack [...]
Read More...On Miriam O'Callaghan's radio program on Monday, Mick O'Dwyer said he couldn't rule out a return to inter-county management in [...]
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