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5 best players never to play at a world cup
5. Liam Brady The Irish hero never got to reach the promised land after a falling out with, then manager, Jack Charlton led to the winger being dropped. The Dubliner missed World Cups in Italy and America. 4. George Weah The 1995 world…
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Grappling with the Irish Muay Thai scene
In a country gripped by medals success in Olympic boxing and the UFC’s pay-per-view extravaganza, it is perhaps difficult to uncover the strong Muay Thai presence in Ireland. Muay Thai, occasionally known as Thaiboxing, is a combat sport that utilises all parts of…
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Roy Keane: Saint or Sinner
Roy Keane is a man that has polarised opinion both on and off the field through-out his career. We asked the public what their best ‘Keano’ memories were. What are your best Roy Keane stories/memories? Let us know in the comments.
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Strong not Skinny
From Irish dancer, to aspiring femaile bodybuilder, 21-year-old Dervla Kilmartin from Sligo has always been a fitness fanatic. She spent her youth juggling every sport under the sun and took a keen interest in dancing and track and field. She was so dedicated…
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Fairytale in New York
With the recent trend of emigration and the resulting need for young people to feel connected to home, GAA can provide a vital and much needed foothold in a new country. Last month, Damien O’Connor was part of the Kerry team that won…
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Lead us not into Temptation…
It was Ronald Reagan, of all people, who pointed out that if prostitution was the world’s oldest profession, and politics it’s second oldest, there was often not a lot of difference between the two. Political corruption is as old as the hills, but…
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An artist’s conception: Francis Bacon’s studio
Last week, Francis Bacon’s triptych of painter and peer Lucian Freud sold at Christie’s auction house in New York for an astounding $142.4m dollars (€105.8m), breaking the previously held record for most paid for a painting at an auction, Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,”…
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Western black rhino is no more
Last week, the western black rhinoceros was officially declared extinct by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. The organisation, which is the world’s largest conservation network, maintains a “red list” of animals which are in danger of becoming extinct. The western…
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Five animals our kids may never see
I’ll never meet a mammoth, and I don’t know any dinosaurs. Extinct animals are mysterious creatures which we must accept we can only ever know so much about. But species are still going extinct today. Between poaching, competition and habitat loss, new species…
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4 Reasons For Irish Rugby Fans To Feel Positive
Irish rugby took a significant step toward forgetting last year’s horrific campaign with a 40-9 victory over a disappointing Samoa on Saturday. Joe Schmidt’s first game in charge could not have gone better, though the New Zealander was eager to dampen enthusiasm and…
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