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An Irish Star in an American Galaxy: Robbie Keane and the MLS
IRISH EYES ARE SMILING! ROBBIE KEANE, WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD! screams the stereotypically American commentator as Robbie Keane runs onto a looping ball over the top from David...
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A Rainbow Nation for The Green Army: Success at Underage Level
Young, gifted and Green, Ireland U-15s beat Juvenetus 3-0. A double from Malahide United’s Zachary Elbouzedi and a first-half goal from Jean Yves Poame gave the Irish youngsters a memorable victory....
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One Tribe, United
Like most League of Ireland fans, these bleak winter months are made all the bleaker for me by the lack of our very own Friday night lights to keep me entertained, to give me distraction, and to drive...
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Gearing Up: League of Ireland First Division Fixtures
The First Division of the League of Ireland operates at a much slower pace than the more significant Premier Division. But now that the fixture list has been released, and with only weeks to go until...
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The Night The Poles Came To Town: Footballing Culture on Europe’s Periphery
At the moment, because of my teaching duties, I am reading a lot about perceptions of the Irish as barbarians on the periphery of Europe from the Ancient Greeks, the Romans through Gerald of Wales and...
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Leagues Apart: Ardal O’Hanlon and Football Rivalries
Football is not an art, but there is an art to good football. - RuudKroll This is the statement put by Ardal O’Hanlon to an English journalist. There is a pause and then...
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Football and Rugby: Which is the Gentleman’s Game?
Ireland lost to England in the rugby today. The reaction to this on Twitter might just disprove the old notion that football is a game for gentleman played by thugs and rugby is a...
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Dispatch from the Setanta Sports Cup: Cork City v Cliftonville
“And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he...
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Sound and Vision: Limerick FC v Cork City FC
I will sit right down/waiting for the gift of sound and vision - David Bowie, “Sound and Vision”, Low (1977) We’re moving into spring in Ireland, not that you’d know it if you were outside, bar the...
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A European Love Letter: Ireland v Austria, World Cup Qualifier
It’ll probably shock most of you who know me to learn that the first time I ever went to see an Irish senior representative side play a match was not in a game of football, but in rugby. Back in 2010,...
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League of Ireland First Division: Waterford United v Cobh Ramblers
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun. Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; For nothing now can ever come to any good. - WH Auden, Funeral Blues...
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Manuela, Thanks for the Memories
Time to say goodbye – Manuela, you’ve been a class act. Smart Manuela Woman of the People Manuela Apres Match Manuela
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The Miscellaneous File of Trap
A cracker of a goal when he played for AC Milan He used to be good The Old Dog […]
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Mark Rutherford: Sparky
Mark Rutherford was a promising young footballer from Birmingham who after a brief spell with Birmingham City FC has spent over twenty years plying his trade in Irish football. In this new short,...
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It’s a game of two halves and other bollocks
‘It will be XI vs XI’ ‘It’s 90 minutes’ ‘We will have to be at our best to beat them’ ‘It’s the result that counts’ ‘Ireland are a physical team…’ The German coach said the following about Irish...
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Stephanie Roche’s wonder goal gets predictable idiotic reactions on YouTube
I’ve posted here in the past about women’s football in Ireland and specifically about the Bus Eireann Women’s National League. Over the weekend, the League, which receives too little attention (holding...
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