Tag: RTE Sport
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Sport poignantly does its thing yet again
A guess would be hazarded with a fair degree of confidence that this corner is not alone in admitting that, aside from Al Paccino’s Inches speech, not a thing is recalled of the American Football based movie, Any Given Sunday. That’s all a soul would need though. Not only to get a proper grasp on…
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Selections for Leopardstown – July 16th 2026
4.20: STAR OF STATE (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 4.50: SEA OF RAIN (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JIM BOLGER) 5.24: ARDADSLOSTDPLOT – EW – (REBECCA PARSONS (7)/DAVID MARNANE) 6.00: BELLESQUE (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 6.35: HOWSTHEBAI (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 7.10: SNELLEN – EW – (GARY CARROLL/GAVIN CROMWELL) 7.45: NEO SMART – EW – (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JIM BOLGER) 8.20: OB LA…
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Selections for Cork – July 10th 2026
5.10: HYGGE (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.45: EASTER BONNET (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 6.15: GINO BELLA (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (5)/PAT FOLEY) 6.50: GLITZ AND GLAMOUR – EW –(PETER SMITHERS (7)/ERIC MCNAMARA) 7.25: WITHABITOFLUCK (DYLAN WHELAN (7)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 8.00: DE CAPO GLORY – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (5)/PADRAIG BUTLER) 8.30: HONEY BUCK’S – EW – (ADAM RYAN (5)/HENRY…
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Another task ticked off the list but nothing on the shelf yet
MEATH…1-21 KILDARE…0-10 Balancing gut feeling with reality can be a very tricky task indeed. Six days ago, from a certain angle, Meath were somewhat unlucky to come away from Pairc Ui Rinn empty handed, yet an objective analysis would also conclude that they left enough waste behind them to have had the game won. Tonight…
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Same clubs, same methods, no solutions
Nobody must have informed Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis about Einstein’s proclamation that the definition of stupidity was repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting a different result. Except, for the time being, that would be tantamount to closing the stable door when the horse has already bolted. Because, you see, the grumpy Greek has…
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A Lifetime in The Pairc – Part 2
In the opening instalment of this sojourn down memory lane, no secret was made of the fact that my ‘relationship’ with Pairc Tailteann got off to the most disastrous start possible. Between ‘Gate gate’ in 1991, my own personal flag disaster of county final day of 1990 and my initial viewing of a Meath match…
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Byrne keeps it in the genes as old menu tastes best for Leinster
LEINSTER… 25 LA ROCHELLE… 24 For the Byrne brothers, it must have felt two vessels passing in the night. Ross, who departed the home paddock looking for greener pastures but found himself outside the grazing platform on the day in question. Meanwhile, brother Harry was summoned from the bench after both Ciaran Frawley and his…
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Treat people like fools and you’ll look like one yourself
Exhibit A: Clones, July 1993, what was to become known as the mudbath Ulster (SFC) Final. How St Tiarnach’s Park was ever passed as playable I’ll never know. It can only be assumed whoever arrived at the decision came from a land of draught. Exhibit B: Dunboyne, May, 2002. A hotly anticipated local derby between…
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If you thought Septic football disappeared with Blatter… Think again.
Do you ever cast your mind back to the world before Netflix? Before specialised channels on the Sky platform. Like the individual discipline channels. History, Arts, Golf, Movies, Racing, Cricket, Documentaries, True Crime. You name it. Now, I’m sure the non sporting genres listed previous always got their run out, it was just that they…
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Camogie Association – or GAA – can no longer Skort around issues as Girl Power talks
In the end, as with many societal issues, you were left wondering what all the fuss was about. That is not meant by way of demeaning the issues which had caused the contention. Quite the contrary in fact. That the ballot called as a means of concluding the contentious kerfuffie ends up being very lopsided…