Ireland Needs a New Rugby Anthem
If you're one of those people whose toes curl into knots at the very mention of the appalling Ireland's Call,...
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Ireland Wins 2015 RBS Six-Nations
You couldn't make it up. Three countries going for the Championship, and a fourth with an outside chance, all competing...
Pascal Papé Gets Five-Week Reprieve After Apologising on Twitter for Injuring Heaslip
French second-row, Pascal Papé, has received a fifteen-week ban after breaking three of Jamie Heaslip's vertebrae with a deliberate knee to...
Munster 65 – Sale Sharks 10. An Insult to Rugby.
Ah look. We went out to the match anyway, even though Munster won't feature in the final eight of the...
Munster 9 — Clermont Auvergne 16
It's hard to say where Munster might have been the equals of Clermont tonight. It wasn't in the scrum. It...
Joe Schmidt Defies Appendicitis to Watch Ireland vs Australia
After a magnificent, blood-and-guts autumn international battle between Ireland and Australia at Lansdowne Road, news began to emerge that Joe...
World Athletics Championships Awarded to Oppressive Qatar Theocracy
What is it about Middle-Eastern theocracies that makes them so attractive to world sporting bodies? First we had the announcement...
Golf Handicap Defamation Case to Cost €500k in Fees
We all know that golf is a ridiculous sport, filled with self-important, rule-obsessed gobshites, but still. Who could have imagined...
Germany 1 – Ireland 1
It has to be a night for the pundits. Lots of talk about de Jairminns, and to a man, Gilesy,...
Roy Keane Biography Leaked
I woke up the next morning. I kind of vaguely remembered the fight. My hand was really sore and one...
