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- Ireland has big hopes for the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship
- James McClean speaks his mind on joining Irish squad
- Manchester City scoop Premiership title
- Ireland's Euro joy doesn’t mask real life worries
- New York Red Bulls goalkeeper Ryan Meara to play for Ireland - could this mean change in Irish team eligibility?
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Ireland has big hopes for the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship
James McClean speaks his mind on joining Irish squad
At 23 James McClean is definitely old enough to know better, so we have to assume he knew what he was doing when he sat down in front of a bank of microphones in Dublin last week.
In the course of a wide-ranging interview in the Clarion Hotel out by the airport McClean spoke on many topics, including his elevation to the Ireland squad for the forthcoming European Championships.
New York Red Bulls goalkeeper Ryan Meara to play for Ireland - could this mean change in Irish team eligibility?
Giovanni Trapattoni has long been of the opinion that there are decent soccer players in America who are eligible to play for Ireland.
Well, very soon we will find out with news that the New York Red Bulls goalkeeper Ryan Meara wants to play for us.
No such thing as a sure thing but Irish Olympic boxers Joe Ward and Katie Taylor are close
There are no certainties in life, never mind in sport. We all know that and there are times when we all have to accept as much.
This is such a time for the young Irish boxer Joe Ward. And for Katie Taylor. A time for reality as the London Olympic games approach.
Rory Staunton would have loved Tom Gibney’s underdog’s win at Fairyhouse race course
It rained for most of the day in County Meath on Monday, quite an appropriate scenario as a small parish church not far from Fairyhouse race course witnessed a tearful family’s farewell as Rory Staunton departed for brighter heavens.
You may or may not know about young Rory. You may or may not have heard of his untimely death at such a young age last week.
If you’re a regular on IrishCentral you will know of the pain and the torture his parents and his sister have shared with his uncles and aunts, cousins and friends these past few days since his tragic death in New York on April 1.
GAA stars leavin’ on a jet plane - striking images as Meath footballer Joe Sheridan boards a plane for the US
Timing can be everything in the world of marketing, even when it is unintentional as whoever chose Dublin All-Ireland winners Bernard Brogan and Eamonn Fennell to work for Aer Lingus now knows.
The Blues duo were photographed at Dublin Airport on Monday afternoon as they helped to launch the Aer Lingus summer schedule that will bring many people away for their annual holidays to the sun spots of Europe and America - and back again presumably.
The top sports news stories of 2011 - lots of thrills and a few chills
It’s the time of year when us sports journalists get lazy. We put the feet up, dust down the clichés and do what we always do for the final edition of each and every calendar year – we look back.
We reminisce. We remember the way we were.
All we want for Christmas are tickets - Irish fans allocated 6,000 tickets by UEFA
The first snows fell out our way on Tuesday, the same day the first begging text of many arrived in relation to a certain sporting event in Poland next summer.
Now, it has to be said, the few snowflakes that did land in this part of Meath as your favorite column was compiled were mere novices compared to the heavyweights that visited us this time last year.
We’re Back, So Thanks Trap - Republic of Ireland football team back on form
This sounds like the scene setter for a love story, but it’s not.
Don’t dump on Donegal's defense attack against Dublin in the All-Ireland
Much has been made of Donegal’s view that defense was the only form of attack in Sunday’s All-Ireland football semifinal against Dublin at Croke Park, an unsuccessful stance as it happened.
Shamrock Rovers qualify for the Europa League - bring our pride back
A musical opened in Dublin the other night commemorating the life of George Best, Northern Ireland’s greatest footballer, at a time when Irish football is celebrating the feats of a man who followed him in the other green jersey.
Michael O’Neill is now the manager of the Shamrock Rovers side that has just qualified for the group stages of the Europa League, the first Irish team to make it to this level of any European competition.
It’s a big deal by the way. Rovers, whose squad was put together for less than $1 million, could earn close to $3 million in prize money just for getting this far in the new version of the old UEFA Cup.
Keeping connected with iKeane
It’s the coolest thing in the world apparently, at least that’s what my kids told me when the subject came up quite recently and my humble cell phone headed for the bin.
Persuaded to do so by those hardly old enough to know any better, I did invest in the Apple revolution quite recently myself -- not due to the fact that I am only a little less than 30 months away from the half century, more due to necessity.
Robbie Keane says bye to the begrudgers in Ireland
It’s a popular past-time in Ireland, particularly among a particular section of the media who have an opinion on Robbie that’s more immovable than the Statue of Liberty.
In their eyes, Robbie Keane is what we Irish call a chancer. According to them, he is a player of limited talent and even more limited ambition who has made a fortune out of moving on from one club to another.
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