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It’s been a depressing couple of weeks for football. During the most recent international break, in March, a number of English players were subjected to racist abuse during the nation’s 5-1 Euro 2020 qualification win over Montenegro in Podgorica. Raheem …
FIFA have this month confirmed the introduction of a new format for the Club World Cup (CWC). From 2021, 24 teams will contest a tournament featuring a group stage, followed by a knockout stage. This figure is up from the …
On Friday, March 15, at the Liacouras Centre in Philadelphia, Katie Taylor secured her third professional boxing title. The Bray native stopped Rose Volante in the ninth round to add the latter’s WBO title to her WBA and IBF straps. …
There is a strange cognitive dissonance at work among Irish soccer fans who recently decried Declan Rice’s decision to declare for the country of his birth. Rice, capped three times for the Republic of Ireland, this month announced after an …
Coming off the back of arguably the greatest year any Irish sporting team has ever had, Ireland’s rugby team were on the crest of a wave entering 2019. A chance to defend their Six Nations crown before carrying that momentum …
Brexit is coming, like the formless, vague monster in a nightmare. Though its exact character remains mysterious, the time of its arrival is certain. On March 29th, the UK may exit the European Union, and the island of Ireland may …
Zion Williamson is not your average collegiate athlete. Duke’s standout power forward, the consensus number one overall pick in the next NBA draft, is a 6-foot-seven, 285 pound colossus, for whom every square inch of our doomed earth is a …
The EU Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, delivered a speech in Trinity yesterday on the current state of the Union, as well as the challenges facing the EU 27, sans Britain, in the years to come. Praising the “no-nonsense, ‘we’ll …