Sport
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Why save Andy Merrigan?
Every year after the dust settles and the All-Ireland has been won, the attention quickly turns to the Club game. Local pride, playing with family and friends, the parish team are all at the core of club football, but unfortunately our game’s biggest…
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O’Neill and Keane appointed as Irish dynamic duo
FAI chief executive John Delaney has confirmed that Martin O’Neill will be the new Republic of Ireland manager, with Roy Keane as his number two in what the Irish support hope will signal “a new era for Irish football.” O’Neill is expected to…
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Stars of the Premier League
4-4-2 Edwin Van Der Sar The big Dutch man was brilliant for Fulham and was even better for United. Van Der Sar holds the record for clean sheets at United, a monumental achievement considering Peter Schmeichel was there for nine seasons. VDS won…
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5 who made it in the AFL…. and 5 who didn’t
With the news this week that Cork’s Ciaran Sheehan will join AFL side Carlton Blues in January, TheCity.ie looks at some of the top Gaelic footballers who made it down under, as well as some of those who didn’t adapt to the new game.…
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The Moyes Effect
Finished, end of their dominance, another Liverpool and an over achieving squad. These were some of the comments we were led to believe were the future for Manchester United. The Red Devils are into the last eight of the League Cup, three points…
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Katie’s Road to Rio
Her first Home Bout since Bringing Back Olympic Gold, Olympic gold medallist boxer Katie Taylor will not have too far to travel for her next fight. The 27-year-old amateur boxer will be on her home turf on November 30, where she will face…
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A portrait of our league
Last March I embarked on a photographic quest to depict the essence of our much-derided domestic football league. Historical, sometimes dilapidated but always characteristic, League of Ireland clubs’ stadia still retain a quintessential flavour of the game in its simplest form, something that…
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Dublin Marathon in Pictures
Almost 14500 people ran in the Dublin marathon on Monday. The men’s race was won by Irishman Sean Hehir with a time of two hours, 18 minutes and 19 seconds with Dublin’s Maria McCambridge winning the women’s race in two hours, 38 minutes and 51…
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“It’s not amateur anymore”: Colm Begley on Gaelic Football’s increasing professionalism
“An amateur game played at a professional level” was how Colm Begley described Gaelic football this week. “The gap has been closed” between GAA and AFL in recent seasons stated the former Brisbane Lions Rookie of the Year, speaking ahead of last weekends second International…
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International Rules at the crossroads
With the latest set of International Rules tests between Ireland and Australia now in full swing, many people are wondering whether or not the compromise rules concept has a viable future. Given its former reputation of being a hard-hitting and fiercely-contested battle between two proud sporting cultures, the…
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