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  • DriveThru Sports Weekly – Ep. 11

    Athletics makes its first appearance on our menu in very sombre circumstances following the passing of Jerry Kiernan, while I also look at the constantly evolving race for the Premiership title and also give my two cents on the growing trend of sports stars retiring long before their time.

  • An uneven 50/50 split as noisy neighbours roar back

    When Cork eventually beat Kerry in the Munster Senior Football Championship of 1987, though it was undoubtedly the end of an era, the result scarcely represented a monumental shock given the mileage which those vanquished had clocked up on their legs. In contrast, when Clare conquered The Kingdom in 1992 and Leitrim broke out of…

  • Gary of all people should know the risks of getting carried away

    The love of my life was only days old when Meath won the Leinster Senior Football Championship in 1986. Their first time to reign in the province for 16 years at that stage. To a certain extent, darling’s arrival on the big ball was overshadowed somewhat! You could hardly blame The Royals for getting a…

  • Two CC’s of shocks as magic of the Cup lives on

    There’s shaky old footage on YouTube of Manchester United defeating Northampton Town 8-2 in the FA Cup of 1970. On a pitch that, while it may not have resembled a ploughed field, definitely had the top worked down on it. That, however, didn’t stop George Best from setting a record by netting six times over…

  • Champions title defence hopes rocked by Van Dijk blow

    Liverpool’s ambitions of retaining the league title they sauntered to for the first time in three decades just a few months ago have been dealt a hammer blow with the news that rearguard general Virgil Van Dijk is facing a lengthy layoff due to a knee injury sustained following a horror tackle by Everton and…

  • Strange moves made out of desperation?

    #Soccer For the vast majority of my lifetime, being a #ManchesterUnited supporter has been a success-laden journey of highly entertaining football. Sir Alex Ferguson’s departure was always likely to lead to big changes for the #OldTrafford outfit. Perhaps culturally as much as anything.