by Brian Gaskin
IT HAS been a crazy year in Irish sport.
In 2008 we have had the introduction of two international managers. We won two bronze and one silver medal at the Beijing Olympics. Padraig Harrington won two golfing majors. Kilkenny won the All-Ireland hurling final (well some things never change), and Tyrone [...]

The road to South Africa in 2010 may be a long and uncertain one for Trappatoni and his troops, but Irish people need to realise that we do in fact have a senior football team competing this week in a major tournament.
The annual Homeless World Cup (HWC) kicked off in Melbourne on December 1 and [...]

ST. PATRICK’S Athletic have had an eventful season, runners-up in the league, Semi-finalists in the FAI Cup where they lost to Bohemians, then crashing out in the first stage of the UEFA Cup. The Ballyfermot Press caught up with Pat’s Manager Johnny McDonnell to get his view on an incident packed season.
“I think it’s [...]

LEWIS HAMILTON recently became the youngest world champion in Formula One history after he won a thrilling Brazilian Grand Prix by the skin of his teeth.
His title rival, Ferrari’s Felipe Massa did what he had to do and won the race but Hamilton grabbed the fifth place finish he needed at the last [...]

IT HAS not been the best of seasons for the much maligned League of Ireland (LOI). Playing second fiddle to the commercial monster that is the Premier League across the Irish Sea will always ensure the domestic game struggles.
Unfortunately it almost seems that the Sky Sports packages offered to football fans nationwide would [...]

Bohemians added the FAI Ford Cup to their Premier Division title after defeating Derry City on penalties in a windswept RDS.
In the first ever shootout in an FAI Cup final Lithuanian international Mindaugas Kolonas and goalkeeper Brian Murphy were the penalty heroes with the Lithuanian scoring the winner. Murphy saved brilliantly from [...]

ON JUNE 7, 1978 Munster stunned the rugby world by defeating the most powerful team playing the game, the All Blacks. Thirty years later history almost repeated itself as Munster threw everything at the All Blacks only to fall short thanks to a last gasp Jon Rocofoku try.
On a night dedicated to the heroes [...]

The on-going dispute between the Cork senior hurlers and manager Gerald McCarthy seems to have come to a temporary solution, with McCarthy naming a squad of 31 players to represent Cork in a challenge game.
On October 21 the Cork County Board reappointed Gerald McCarthy as Cork hurling boss, extending his tenure until October 2010. Within [...]

FOR SOME reason the producers at RTÉ and Setanta Sports seem to think the only clubs Irish people support are Manchester United and Liverpool FC.
What these television stations fail to realise is more people do not support Manchester United and Liverpool, than do.
While Manchester United and Liverpool have strong support, there are a much [...]

Neilstown boxer, Kenneth Egan, is among five Irish fighters who have qualified for the Olympics this summer.
Joining Egan on the flight to China is middleweight, Darren Sutherland,
and light welterweight, John Joe Joyce. While, light-flyweight, Paddy
Barnes, and bantamweight, John Joe Nevin booked their place at the
Games back in March.
Egan, Sutherland and Joyce also won gold at [...]