In advance of Wednesday’s massive game against England at Wembley, which is being shown live on Setanta Ireland, we are starting the build up, bringing you back to that infamous night and plotting the key storylines that makes May 29th, one of the biggest nights of the sporting calendar. These are the ones that slipped way, a team of the best players who traded the chance to become national heroes... »
Tonight’s match between Spartak Moscow and Krylia Sovetov will be the last football match to be played at Moscow’s Luzhniki stadium. The Rugby World Cup Sevens and The World Athletics Championships will be held there later this summer before the stadium is closed to be reconstructed for the 2018 World Cup. Seating more than 80,000 people it is one of Europe’s biggest sports venue... »
Confusion reigns within the island of Ireland about Trap’s decision making when it came to picking Derby County’s Conor Sammon ahead of Kevin Doyle in the starting XI for tonight’s must win game against the Austrians. The Austrian media are also quite confused having got it all completely arseways thanks to some Wolves loving sub editor. h/t Gavin O’Connor via OE24 apologie... »
Derval O’Rourke is one of Irish athletics greatest ever championship runners. As well as being 2006 World Indoor Championship she’s also won medals at European level both indoors and outdoors. Tonight she was 0.01 seconds away from earning another medal in the European Athletics Indoors Championship in Gothenburg, Sweden. It took personal bests from all 3 ahead of her to deny her a ... »
German sportswear giant adidas have been providing quality sportswear for over 60 years and through the amazing adidas archive, they’ve decided to show off some of their vast, vast collection of runners, jerseys, adverts and most importantly for this article, catalogues. Among the scanned catalogues is this gem from adidas Ireland from 1972 The catalogue has the usual mix of football boots ... »
So first Martyn Irvine wins a brilliant silver medal in the Individual pursuit. Less than two hours later he was world champion thanks to this performance (all 25 minutes of it). And here he is receiving his gold medal You can view his first interview as World Champion here (with bonus tweets from the cream of the Irish cycling community). It’s been some day for Irish cycling. The Giro DR... »
It has been some day for Ireland’s Martyn Irvine. First he wins silver in the Individual Pursuit. And then… His first interview as World Champion Ireland’s cycling community were rightly overjoyed Whoever told me the nice guys never win was full of #%*} @martyn_irvine you bloody hero #nicestguyinthepeleton — Matt Brammeier (@Mattbrammeier85) February 21, 2013 Well done to... »
When Ronan O’Gara took to the field in the wet and soggy conditions for his 127th cap last Sunday, there was a mixed feeling around the Aviva Stadium. I was with the majority who felt that it was a game made for the cool head of O’Gara but there were plenty around me who disagreed and made their feelings known. Sitting in the press box, one particular individual nearby felt the need to... »
Looking at this report in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph that Irish midfielder Stephen Ireland had been frozen out of the Aston Villa first team set-up and forced to train with the club’s under 21 squad made us think; “isn’t it time we looked back at the curious world of Stephen Ireland?” Let’s look at some of the more interesting parts of his career so far 2003 – Has a bust up with Irish underage ma... »
The Ireland team to play Poland in an international friendly at the Aviva tomorrow night has been announced. Millwall’s David Forde starts in goal while Bristol City’s Greg Cunningham starts at left back. Derby’s Conor Sammon makes his Ireland debut by starting up front in tandem with Shane Long. Sammon has scored 7 goals in all competitions for Derby who are placed 9th in the Ch... »
Carl McHugh was called up to the Republic of Ireland under 21 squad for the first time by manager Noel King. International team mate Derrick Williams uploaded the video via his twitter account (click on the yfrog link in the tweet to reveal all its glory). Here’s Bradford superstar singing Galway girl for the boiz @carlmacaoidh6yfrog.us/nas1veukhavbql… — Derrick Williams (@DerickWilli... »
Donegal man Carl McHugh showed no sympathy for fellow Donegal man Shay Given with this bullet header in the Capital One Cup semi-final last night. Bradford won the game 3-1. McHugh is only 19 years old and hails from Lettermacaward. »
Robbie Brady is currently out on loan to Hull from Man Utd, both him and David Meyler (on loan from Sunderland) scored in Hull’s 2-1 win over Watford at the weekend. OK, so it was straight down the middle and the keeper should probably have saved it. But as an Irish footballer supporter I’m going to grasp at every straw. »
It appears that the Italian diet did wonders for Liam Brady’s appearance. He looks much younger in 1982 while at Juventus than he did in 1979 while with Arsenal. via Old School Pannini H/T Joe Lynch »
