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‘Big Sam’ Ends Reign With 100% Record Intact

Sam Allardyce has recently parted ways with the English national side having never lost a match. It’s a record that makes him England’s most successful manager to date. In his statement Allardyce said, “It’s...

Olympics 2016 Reflections

Two weeks ago Fintan O’ Toole wrote an article detailing his memories of watching Irish marathon runner Jim Hogan race in the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. While Hogan eventually dropped to the ground a few miles sho...

O’Donovan Brothers Clinch Silver For Ireland

Team Ireland won their first medals of the 2016 Olympic games as brothers Gary and Paul O’Donovan picked up silver in the men’s lightweight double sculls (aka the rowing, for the uneducated amongst you) on 12th...

League of Ireland Funding: Is It Enough?

On 30th July, the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) announced a new ‘strategic’ funding plan whereby €100,000 would be distributed amongst the 20 clubs playing in the SSE Airtricity Leagues. This sum of €5,...

Juventus make a 94 million euro statement

The buying and selling of human beings was rightfully outlawed a long time ago. Except with footballers, these people are okay to buy. It is often, and I don't use the phrase lightly, silly money that a club pa...

5 things we learnt from the Euro 2016 Quarter-Finals

In anticipation of even more footballing, Oisin McQueirns gives his views on some of the best and worst kicking of balls in the Quarter-Finals of Euro 2016. When the going gets tough, the Belgian’s get elimi...

Beach corpse ‘part of the plan’ says Olympics head

There were further organisational headaches today for the 'Organising Committee for the Rio Olympics' today after yet more problems were found with one of their sports facilities. Those problems came in the sha...

McGregor makes U-turn on retirement plans

Conor McGregor has announced that he ISN’T retiring after all of the speculation over the last few days. In a statement on his official Facebook, McGregor outlined the reasons for his on-going dispute with t...

Conti could be Real Deal at Aintree

Photo credit: "Silviniaco Conti" (CC BY-SA 2.0) by  Carine06    Silviniaco Conti is among the eye-catching runners set to line up in the Grand National at Aintree early next month. After the f...