Hoping to avoid the bogeymenAll-Ireland qualifier draw comment: It was like Sunday night at the movies in Carrick-on-Shannon for the live qualifying draw…Mon Jun 25 2007 - 01:00
Thurles Three saga should end nowSideline Cut: You cannot beat the hurling world when it comes to civil unrestSat Jun 23 2007 - 01:00
Connacht previewNothing has changed in this time-honoured meeting of Connacht's most gloried football county and the province's hardiest.Sat Jun 23 2007 - 01:00
Harte's quiet sideline manner a joy to watchIt is always worth watching Mickey Harte on the sidelineMon Jun 18 2007 - 01:00
Blithe Royals always worry uptight DubsSideline Cut: A tremor of fear must be rippling through many of the vast fraternity of Dublin summer football fansSat Jun 02 2007 - 01:00
O'Sullivan gets the heart poundingSideline Cut: Obscure sports coaches all over the country will be gratified by several scenes in RTÉ's high-octane and sophisticated…Sat May 26 2007 - 01:00
Pocketing one's pride an All-Ireland perkSideline Cut: If we are to believe what we hear, then most GAA All-Ireland winners like to carry their medals about their persons…Sat May 19 2007 - 01:00
Carr rues letting chances slipDown's Ross Carr was renowned for coolness under pressure back when he played on one of the most sumptuous forward units of the…Mon May 14 2007 - 01:00
Longford v Westmeath previewWith his now trademark powers of recovery, Dessie Dolan has been passed fit to start for Westmeath, despite spending the last…Sat May 12 2007 - 01:00
All-Ireland glory grand delusion for mostSideline Cut: As the drum rolls in honour of the beginning of another football championship, so all managers must clear their…Sat May 12 2007 - 01:00
Oscar's night the only show in townSideline Cut: Las Vegas and boxing make up the most lurid and intoxicating of all the concoctions in sport, and late tonight…Sat May 05 2007 - 01:00
Oscar's night the only show in townSideline Cut: Las Vegas and boxing make up the most lurid and intoxicating of all the concoctions in sport, and late tonight…Sat May 05 2007 - 01:00
League is no joke when you're winningSideline Cut: The general attitude to the league says a lot about the contrary nature of the IrishSat Apr 21 2007 - 01:00
Boy Ronaldo overstepping his positionSideline Cut : An awful lot of people seem to have a fierce set against the lad Cristiano Ronaldo, who plays for Manchester …Sat Apr 14 2007 - 01:00
Walrus swimming against the new tideSideline Cut: Watching Craig Stadler rumbling around the fairways during the first round at Augusta brought to mind the old …Sat Apr 07 2007 - 01:00
Maradona's story might still inspireSideline Cut: One of the more troubling sporting headlines of the week reported that Diego Maradona had been rushed to hospital…Sat Mar 31 2007 - 01:00
Tired old team in need of a shake-upGroup D/TV View: Great teams get old in a jiffy. It is the same in any sportThu Mar 29 2007 - 01:00
Howzat for a relic from the distant pastSideline Cut : Ireland has to conquer twice this afternoon. Beating Wales is an absolute necessitySat Mar 24 2007 - 00:00
Cheltenham pilots our mortal superiorsSideline Cut : Cheltenham must be as good as they say because regular jockeys are tougher than the restSat Mar 17 2007 - 00:00
Coach with no pedigree breeding successSideline Cut: No matter how passionately the air of Flower of Scotland is delivered around Edinburgh this weekend, it will hardly…Sat Mar 10 2007 - 00:00
Keane aptitude should not surprise usSideline Cut: There may well be a little bunker in Roy Keane's garage reserved as a burial ground for the various trophies and…Sat Mar 03 2007 - 00:00
Queen's song still strikes a delicate chordSideline Cut : The Artane Boy's Band may be busy practising the subtle brass notes of God Save the Queen this weekend but when…Sat Feb 17 2007 - 00:00
All the lonely people of John Lennon's childhoodMemoir: The Fab Four are a dwindling band of brothers nowadays but their music still effortlessly transcends wave after wave…Sat Feb 17 2007 - 00:00
Maybe San Marino showed our true levelSideline Cut: Immediately after watching Ireland commit floodlit robbery against poor San Marino on Wednesday night, I turned…Sat Feb 10 2007 - 00:00
Maybe San Marino showed our true levelSideline Cut: Immediately after watching Ireland commit floodlit robbery against poor San Marino on Wednesday night, I turned…Sat Feb 10 2007 - 00:00
How many hits can rugby boys safely take?Sideline Cut: Only when you stand next to Ireland's elite rugby players do you get a true inkling of the sort of brain-shaking…Sat Feb 03 2007 - 00:00
Fan: a flailing device that blows hot and coldSideline Cut: Anyone who feared a gulf had developed between big-time sports stars and their fans probably thought differently…Sat Jan 27 2007 - 00:00
Glory days make Ali decline more movingSideline Cut: As Muhammad Ali celebrates 65 years of a life that has become one of the most glorified of the 20th century, …Sat Jan 20 2007 - 00:00
Beckham hasn't lost his sense of timingSideline Cut: You cannot teach street smarts, and news of David Beckham's flabbergasting transfer to LaLa Land is the final…Sat Jan 13 2007 - 00:00
O'Dwyer and Knight peerlessly plough onSideline Cut : It would be too much to hope that Mick O'Dwyer, the tireless survivor of Irish sport, will ever meet with Bob…Sat Jan 06 2007 - 00:00
Tenacious O'Gara reaps a fitting rewardSideline Cut: It seems longer than just last May since I sat down with Ronan O'Gara in a well-tended country house overlooking…Sat Dec 30 2006 - 00:00
All sporting life is going down youtubeSideline Cut : Despite being overwhelmed by the menu of live televised sport, we still find it in our souls to spare an hour…Sat Dec 16 2006 - 00:00
GAA must make room for Men in WhiteSideline Cut : It is high time the GAA began to "big up" the role of the umpireSat Dec 09 2006 - 00:00
Cross marks place we once loved wellSideline Cut: On Sunday, Crossmaglen Rangers will go for their fifth Ulster title, having ruled the roost in Armagh for the…Sat Dec 02 2006 - 00:00
Modern Clare great looks to parishesOpening of Michael Cusack visitor centre: With the rain whipping across the Burren and one voice addressing the sheltering crowd…Wed Nov 29 2006 - 00:00
Thorpe's exit as stylish as his entrySideline Cut: It is tough for the sport of swimming to breach the global headlines in the years between Olympiads, but the …Sat Nov 25 2006 - 00:00
Sports fans can be an unforgiving lotSideline Cut: Professional sport glides along so smoothly and looks so glossy you can often forget the performers are actually…Sat Nov 18 2006 - 00:00
Perilous times of the Black PearlBiography Many compelling voices and stories presenting the austere and often brutally numbing existence of children bound to…Sat Nov 18 2006 - 00:00
Australia 'fair' has whole other meaningSideline Cut: As the dust settles on the latest International Rules disaster, the no-bluster words of Kevin Sheedy, legendary…Sat Nov 11 2006 - 00:00
Series a catalyst for strange phenomenaSideline Cut: Wish we knew why Martin Sheen was in the crowd for the International Rules in Galway last Saturday nightSat Nov 04 2006 - 00:00
Fond memories of the Fighting IrishSideline Cut : In Manhattan on Thursday night, something of the spirit of the fighting Irish was raisedSat Oct 21 2006 - 01:00
Stan shows what sort of The Man he isSideline Cut: Imagine being Steve Staunton for the past weekSat Oct 14 2006 - 01:00
Glimpse of good old days at LansdowneTV View: After the longest week, the game seemed to pass by in secondsThu Oct 12 2006 - 01:00
Weep not for Mayo; look to yourselvesSideline Cut: On Sunday last, 82,000 people witnessed Kerry reconfirm their status as the insatiable, deathless winners of the…Sat Sept 23 2006 - 01:00
All-Ireland odyssey still the rail thingSideline Cut: There is a time-honoured tradition of travelling to All-Ireland finals by railSat Sept 16 2006 - 01:00
Loughnane tailor-made for Galway jobSideline Cut: Loughnane for Galway: it has the ring of the dream ticket about itSat Sept 09 2006 - 01:00
Mighty gesture by the mighty QuinnSideline Cut : English football would make for duller theatre without its pair of Irish mavericks, Roy Keane and Niall Quinn…Sat Aug 26 2006 - 01:00
O'Dwyer alchemy may not be enoughPreview/Laois v Mayo: This All-Ireland football quarterfinal has its attractions but it also illuminates the unsatisfactory …Sat Aug 12 2006 - 01:00
