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Euro 2024 is a tournament that’s walking a tightrope between joy and disintegration, reflecting the...
Irish Independent· 5 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· 5 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· 5 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· 5 days agoA Cork win over Limerick today would turn a great hurling season into one of the greatest. It’d be...
Jamesie O’Connor: Cork need to give it everything, but Limerick will probably be too good
Irish Independent· 5 days agoIn 711AD, Muslim forces under Tariq bin Ziyad, set sail from North Africa to conquer the Iberian...
Tommy Conlon: Save football with forward thinking
Irish Independent· 5 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· 5 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 ...
‘I think I can really make a statement’ – Daina Moorhouse hopes Olympic performance can yield...
Irish Independent· 5 days agoPaul O’Toole remembers the first time he laid eyes on Daina Moorehouse. Her mother Malissa was...
Galway’s Ailish O’Reilly in winning frame of mind for do-or-die duel with Waterford
Irish Independent· 5 days agoGalway goal poacher Ailish O’Reilly is not one for dodging hard challenges. O’Reilly doesn’t attempt...
Today at the Euros: England’s individual moments make up for lacklustre team performance
Irish Independent· 5 days agoShane Brennan caught up with Daniel McDonnell in Germany after a Euros quarter-final stage that saw...