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Euro 2024: Spain, France, England and Netherlands prepare for semi-finals – as it happened
The Guardian· 4 days agoSpain’s Marc Cucurella has had an excellent tournament, and he’s been speaking before his side’s...
Gary Neville claims England’s nearly men got it wrong with ‘unlucky’ penalty claims
Irish Independent· 4 days agoEngland’s footballers spent a couple of decades fearing the prospect of a penalty shoot-out in a...
Kevin Palmer: How England’s new generation shed the fears of their penalty-taking predecessors
Irish Independent· 4 days agoThe mere mention of a penalty shoot-out used to send shivers of fear down the spine of England...
Euro 2024 is a tournament that’s walking a tightrope between joy and disintegration, reflecting the...
Irish Independent· 4 days agoFor much of Germany’s Euro 2024 quarter-final against Spain, it had seemed like a modern rewrite of their 2006 World Cup quarter-final against Argentina. In both games, the technically more ...
Joe Brolly: Devil is in the detail for meticulous McGuinness
Irish Independent· 4 days agoAfter Galway had beaten Sligo in this year’s Connacht semi-final with a last-minute goal, Pádraic...
Dermot Crowe: Sideline can take credit as Clare’s resilience ends their final wait
Irish Independent· 4 days agoAt the end the Clare players leaped off the ground in delight, a jubilation that, for a long time,...
Eamonn Sweeney: Rebels ride to the rescue to breathe new life into lost summer
Irish Independent· 4 days agoA Cork win over Limerick today would turn a great hurling season into one of the greatest. It’d be...
Cork battle to escape uncharted territory
Irish Independent· 4 days agoBen O’Connor came on to the Cork senior hurling team in 1999, sprung by Jimmy Barry-Murphy in a pivotal Munster Championship match with Waterford in...
Tommy Conlon: Save football with forward thinking
Irish Independent· 4 days agoWhen a stadium containing almost 50,000 fans is as quiet as a funeral parlour, the temptation is even greater than usual to toll the bell for the death...
Paul Kimmage: Cycling’s washing machine is still cleaning their dope-stained laundry
Irish Independent· 4 days agoCycling hero Mark Cavendish fears no one will believe pro cycling is clean again — after Lance Armstrong’s doping confession on US TV. The sprint ace says the shamed star was so convincing in ...