Confusion reigns over McKenna test result
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By Paddy Hunter and Niall McCoy CONFUSION reigns over Conor McKenna’s apparent ‘positive’ Covid-19 test that had seemed to put his Aussie Rules future in doubt. The Eglish man tested positive for the virus on Saturday, but on Tuesday he tested negative, raising the possibility that the weekend’s result was a false positive. Advertisement He […]


Joe Brolly: Ashley and Steven
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IT was 2004 when I stopped watching soccer and abandoned any pretence at fandom. What did it for me was the serialisation of Ashley Cole’s autobiography (how can they call them autobiographies when someone else writes them?) “In My Defence.” That was the year when Cole was in negotiations with Arsenal about a new contract […]


PGthePT: The roadmap for a return to action
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This is it, the roadmap is out and the return to play is so close we can almost touch it. What we need to make sure is that along the road you don’t trip, fall and hurt yourself – metaphorically of course – as the increased risk of injury for players right now is real. […]


Patrick Morrison: Critical non-essentials
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“The area of immense interest to me was the importance of detail, not just any kind of detail but the development of things that would and could set us apart from any other team in the world. We had to assume that our main competitors would also have the same quality of players, the same […]


Patton anticipates confusion and mistakes
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By Frank Craig SHAUN Patton admits there will be plenty of trepidation surrounding the GAA’s return to play – and it won’t all be Covid-19 based. The GAA has confirmed that the new playing rule changes, implemented at the start of the year, are to remain in place. Inter-county sides have some experience of the […]