Home thoughts from abroad on the All-Ireland championships‘A lone Donegal fan was in an empty carriage and had his head in his hands. He cut a forlorn figure. Who says nobody cares about the provincial championship?’Sat Jul 27 2013 - 01:00
If you haven’t hit Clones on Ulster final day, sure you haven’t livedMonaghan on home soil taking on All-Ireland champions Donegal is an occasion of unique pomp and grandeurSat Jul 20 2013 - 11:00
Zimmerman trial verdict sparks protestsAcquittal of George Zimmerman reverberates across the USMon Jul 15 2013 - 08:11
Without even drinking from a World Cup, Brazil have a hangoverThere are already rumblings of disconent from South AmericaSat Jul 13 2013 - 12:00
Play-acting a bloody battleThe Gettysburg experience seems to attract all kinds: Gone With the Wind fans, historians, the mildly curious, and re-enactors playing out every step of the battleSat Jul 13 2013 - 01:00
Rugby winds up the loser in Lions side bereft of Captain FantasticIf there isn’t room for Brian O’Driscoll this morning then the game has lost somethingSat Jul 06 2013 - 14:00
Shame of the fighting IrishThe New York riots against Lincoln’s draft in 1863 revealed a deep racism in Irish emigrantsSat Jul 06 2013 - 01:00
Gennady’s sickening hook to the liver takes the fight right out of Matthew MacklinKazakh looks like he could claim many more titlesMon Jul 01 2013 - 01:00
For Aaron Hernandez, America’s game may be all played outHow could a young man whose athletic gifts have made him extravagantly wealthy get caught up in something so bleak and pointless?Sat Jun 29 2013 - 12:30
A public goodbye to ‘incredibly private’ James GandolfiniCast of ‘Sopranos’, from lead roles to cameos, turn out for funeral in New YorkFri Jun 28 2013 - 01:00
Matthew Macklin hopes to make it third time lucky against Gennady GolovkinKazakh packs a punch as his 26 knockouts testifyThu Jun 27 2013 - 01:00
Opportunity knocks again for focused Matthew Macklin as he takes on unbeaten Gennady GolovkinIrishman hoping for success in Saturday night’s fight at the Foxwoods CasinoWed Jun 26 2013 - 01:00
Death, fear and misinformation on Aids cut to the core of 1980s Big AppleAn exhibitionabout the early years of the Aids crisis reflects a period of despairWed Jun 26 2013 - 01:00
As the Heat rises so the TV’s volume is pumped upSport is normally heard in silence in bars in the States, except when something truly big is happeningSat Jun 22 2013 - 11:00
Methodical scrutiny in US of Sean Dunne finances extends to wardrobeDunne finances stripped bare during long day of legal examinationThu Jun 20 2013 - 01:00
Flame transfer celebrates ‘transformational’ John F KennedyKennedy Torch will arrive in Dublin on Thursday on to Wexford by Naval ship for Saturday’s ceremony on the quay front in New RossWed Jun 19 2013 - 01:00
Conor Sammon is happy to learn from the master Robbie KeaneDerby County striker is looking forward to facing a world-class side like SpainTue Jun 11 2013 - 01:00
Trapattoni wants Irish players and team to grow againItalian hopes to right some of the humiliation suffered at the hands of Spain in that 4-0 defeat in PolandMon Jun 10 2013 - 01:00
King James and Miami don’t feel the heat of public affectionLeBron and his team are loathed as they face the ‘boring’ San Antonio SpursSat Jun 08 2013 - 14:00
Sixty years out of IrelandWe talk often of current and recent emigration. But 1950s Ireland also had a ‘lost generation’. What do some of those who left for New York in the mid 20th century think of Ireland today, and do they regret going?Sat Jun 08 2013 - 01:00
London forgotten in ‘Sunday Game’ falloutScale of their achievement in beating Sligo shouldn’t be obscuredSat Jun 01 2013 - 14:00
An Englishman in New YorkMartin Amis discusses living abroad, class, terrorism, Thatcher, family and the writing lifeSat Jun 01 2013 - 01:00
The abusers who taught the US eliteRupert Murdoch’s son went there. So did a former publisher of the New York Times. But behind the walls of Horace Mann School some of its teachers spent decades sexually abusing pupils. Now, inspired in part by the Murphy and Magdalene laundry reports, the victims are demanding justiceSat Jun 01 2013 - 01:00
Forever young: vigorous older generation lead by exampleA quick scan of Yuichiro Miura’s eight decades reveals him to be one of those soulsSat May 25 2013 - 01:00
Be Good Or Be Gone: the McSorley’s wayMcSorley’s on Seventh Street, recognised as New York’s oldest pub, has stubbornly resisted change – which is part of its enduring appealSat May 25 2013 - 01:00
Colum McCann’s latest high-wire act links home and AmericaColum McCann’s ‘Irish book’ is an emigrant’s take on Frederick Douglass and George Mitchell in IrelandMon May 20 2013 - 02:00
Becks takes a hint and follows Mugsy and O’Hara off centre stageThree extravagant talents will be missedSat May 18 2013 - 13:00
Code read: when Dan Brown met DanteDan Brown’s new novel sets his indestructible hero against the problem of overpopulation – which is funny, given that most of the world seems to have read his booksSat May 18 2013 - 01:00
Ferguson was the fire of England’s winters‘If you were United, you adored and trusted him. If not, you pretended to loathe him but were always fascinated and envious’Sat May 11 2013 - 15:00
Gatsby’s city still livesSince F Scott FitzGerald immortalised Roaring Twenties New York in ‘The Great Gatsby’, the city has changed many times without losing the atmosphere that captivates millionsSat May 11 2013 - 01:00
Mulligan’s three goals help Leitrim to victory over outclassed New YorkGulf between the sides obvious as Connacht side power to convincing victorySun May 05 2013 - 23:20
Collins launches a new era in traditional male world of the NBAJason Collins has gone from being an obscure journeyman NBA player to an historic role model who has drawn comparison with Jackie RobinsonSat May 04 2013 - 14:00
The All-Ireland Football Championship begins in the BronxNew York aiming to shock Leitrim into submission at Gaelic ParkSat May 04 2013 - 06:00
Boston Celtics being booed heralds a return to normalityThe pent-up emotion from the Boston bombings needed release and, as ever, sport acted as a pressure valveSat Apr 27 2013 - 15:00
Ben Marcus – a bright spark in the world of lettersThe path of the novelist can be a treacherous one, as novelist Ben Marcus has learned – and taughtWed Apr 24 2013 - 07:00
Fury gets off Madison Square Garden floor to gain a knockout victory over CunninghamMancunian boxer takes his record to 21-0 and is now nearing a shot at a world title fightMon Apr 22 2013 - 06:00
Race is still the most slippery and volatile subject in AmericaJackie Robinson’s arrival prompted floods of African-Americans to Ebbets Field while paving the way for players from other ethnic groups to sign major league contractsSat Apr 20 2013 - 12:00
The fight and the furyIf he wins at Madison Square Garden tonight the boxer Tyson Fury will be one step closer to a world heavyweight title, with his Irish Traveller culture at the heart of everything he doesSat Apr 20 2013 - 07:00
Tyson Fury’s verbal onslaught does not impress opponent Steve CunninghamPress conference in New York sets scene for a lively encounter at Madison Square GardenThu Apr 18 2013 - 07:00
Woods finds he’s still king of the hill, top of the heapThey may not be mad about golf in New York but they sure like TigerSat Apr 13 2013 - 15:00
Jean Butler: ‘When I look back at Riverdance, it is at a whole different person’Jean Butler is content that she can’t move the way she did when she became synonymous with Irish culture, but dance remains the bedrock of her lifeSat Apr 13 2013 - 06:00
The case of the confessional and the United IrishmanIn 1800s New York, Derry lawyer William Sampson defended the sacrament of confession. The case would change American law in unforeseen waysSat Apr 13 2013 - 06:00
Jay Z’s remarkable rise and inspirational story for native New YorkersIt is easy to see why any young sports superstar would want to include themselves in the Jay Z stableSat Apr 06 2013 - 14:01
March Madness shows college basketball’s intense grip on the American psycheDapper coaches and amateur players dominate US life for a monthThu Apr 04 2013 - 06:00
‘Crazy honey with a gun’ shows the extreme realms of fandomStory that inspired ‘The Natural’ foreshadowed today’s sports stalkersSat Mar 30 2013 - 14:00
Rough justice: New York’s teen ‘rapists’When a young white woman was raped and left for dead in the heart of Manhattan in 1989, five Harlem teenagers were sent to jail. But all were innocent – a fact not all New Yorkers are aware of a decade after their eventual acquittal, according to the makers of a harrowing new film about the Central Park jogger caseSat Mar 30 2013 - 06:00
GAA’s unequivocal response must stamp out racial abuse on the pitchOpportunity for Congress to send out a clear message on the issueSat Mar 23 2013 - 06:07
Between jigs and reels, the last great show of Irish influence in New YorkThe Fifth Avenue parade is a compelling and curiously elegiac phenomenon. No floats, no Mardi Gras playfulness: just a five-hour statement of identityTue Mar 19 2013 - 06:00
Feeding Fifth AvenueAs New York prepares for today’s St Patrick’s Day pageant, volunteers from the city’s Irish enclave of Woodlawn have been working tirelessly to help Manhattan’s hungry and homelessSat Mar 16 2013 - 06:00
