No change as top three drawHOCKEY : IT'S AS you were at the top of the Leinster First Division after the weekend's games, after Railway Union maintained…Mon Nov 10 2008 - 00:00
Fingal do it the hard way againHOCKEY : JUST LAST week Fingal co-coach John McInerney remarked on his side's "habit of coming from behind" after a string of…Mon Nov 10 2008 - 00:00
Table football may be the way to go with all this stormy aimsirTV VIEW: WE THOUGHT of Jim Stevens yesterday when we tuned in to TG4 for the club championships and saw a near horizontal Micheál…Mon Nov 10 2008 - 00:00
UCD's impressive run to continueHOCKEY: THEY MIGHT be a little weary from their exertions in Kilkenny earlier in the week but UCD's confidence should be up …Fri Oct 31 2008 - 00:00
Monkstown rely on 12th man, Three Rock go topHOCKEY: THERE WERE only two Leinster First Division fixtures at the weekend, but between them they produced 14 goals, eight …Mon Oct 27 2008 - 00:00
Footsie rallies as 'Arry takes shares in North London ventureTV VIEW: SKY NEWS is to be avoided these nights, particularly around the time the stock exchange thingies are opening on the…Mon Oct 27 2008 - 00:00
Loreto off to flying start as Delany grabs threeTHE INAUGURAL weekend of the Irish Hockey League produced five highly competitive matches, only Loreto posting a comprehensive…Mon Oct 20 2008 - 01:00
Prescriptions at the ready as we get ready to pummelTV VIEW: WE THOUGHT of Martin Keown on Saturday when we were flicking through our digital world of sport to see what was on …Mon Oct 20 2008 - 01:00
New format to boost game's profile and raise standardsWOMEN'S HOCKEY: IT WAS a long time in the planning and its format had to be fine-tuned before being accepted by all the branches…Fri Oct 17 2008 - 01:00
The King is wrong in the 'ead as Barney rules the ocheTV VIEW : THE CITYWEST Hotel was, Sky Sports presenter Dave Clark promised us, rocking when we tuned in for the semi-finals …Mon Oct 13 2008 - 01:00
Convincing wins ahead of IHL matchesMEN'S HOCKEY : THREE ROCK Rovers and Pembroke Wanderers both warmed up for the inaugural matches in the Irish Hockey League …Mon Oct 13 2008 - 01:00
Railway keep up good startWOMEN'S HOCKEY : A WEEK ahead of their Irish Hockey League meeting with Pegasus in Belfast, Railway Union maintained their perfect…Mon Oct 13 2008 - 01:00
Muller calls up elite for 'Super Camp'WOMEN'S HOCKEY: THERE'S A full league programme this weekend but several clubs will be without key players after Ireland coach…Fri Oct 10 2008 - 01:00
Logue gets started with UCDWOMEN'S HOCKEY WEEKEND PREVIEW: THE STUDENTS of Trinity and UCD get their league seasons under way tomorrow against Hermes and…Fri Oct 03 2008 - 01:00
Hard to give a continental as Europe begins to fragmentTV VIEW : WHEN WE saw those disgruntled kilted chaps carrying a life-size cardboard cut-out of Monty Montgomerie around that…Mon Sept 22 2008 - 01:00
Yee haw, Ryder cowboys, here's Pawd-rayg Harrison . . .TV VIEW: "LAAAAAAYDEEES AND GENTLEMEN," said the announcer in one of those spine-tinglin', goosebump-inducin', fist-pump-inspirin…Sat Sept 20 2008 - 01:00
Ted puts wind up Hall but Curtin draws colour from Marty's cheeksTV VIEW : SKY SPORTS asked the man from Easy Cleaning Services how he'd feel if Manchester United equalled Liverpool's 18 league…Mon Sept 15 2008 - 01:00
Blue and white turned black and blue by awesome Big CatsTV VIEW: IT'S USUALLY only when the lion's about to pounce on the gazelle that we cover our screen with Aertel, Ceefax or whatever…Mon Sept 08 2008 - 01:00
Gooch Almighty stops Brolly making a holy show of himselfTV VIEW : IT WAS the Speed 3 episode of Fr Ted when Fr Dougal, doing a nixer as the Craggy Island milkman, discovered his milk…Mon Sept 01 2008 - 01:00
Georgia still hope to play in TbilisiINTERNATIONAL NEWS: AHEAD OF the deadline set for today by Fifa for an alternative venue to be named for Saturday week's World…Tue Aug 26 2008 - 01:00
Horseplay has us choking on our sugar cubesOLYMPIC TV VIEW: BEDECKED IN our jodhpurs and hard hat, whip in hand, with a bowl of sugar lumps all set to nibble on, we were…Fri Aug 22 2008 - 01:00
Channel swimming leaves us all at seaOLYMPIC TV: IT WAS only last week that a Dr Klaus Kallmayer from the City Hospital in Dubai warned that those intending watching…Mon Aug 11 2008 - 01:00
Davis delivers on promise ahead of scheduleALREADY THIS year on our list of monthly award winners we had two young sportswomen, Chloe Magee (badminton) and Siobhán Byrne…Wed Jul 09 2008 - 01:00
Water water everywhere and nowhere for Brolly to hideTV VIEW: THE DELUGE began at Silverstone, veered west to Páirc Uí Chaoimh and back again towards southwest London, although …Mon Jul 07 2008 - 01:00
Ted loses his trolley as Gilesie gives Dustin run for his moneyTV VIEW : THE BOOKIES were beaming as they queued up to have a chat with RTÉ's Brian Gleeson at the Curragh, a bit of a hint…Mon Jun 30 2008 - 01:00
Hair-raising odysseys in the land of What Might Have BeenTV VIEW: AS WE MADE our way from Auckland to Melbourne to Nowlan Park to Innsbruck to Salzburg to Donnybrook and on to Torrey…Mon Jun 16 2008 - 01:00
Maguire twins up there with the bestIRISH TIMES/IRISH SPORTS COUNCIL SPORTSWOMAN OF THE MONTH WHEN SCOTLAND'S Carly Booth became the youngest ever player to represent…Wed Jun 11 2008 - 01:00
Clare end drought in the heat as TV3 enter Championship frayTV VIEW: 'TWENTY-THREE degrees in the shade - it must be the Munster hurling championship," as Mike Finnerty put it in his …Mon Jun 02 2008 - 01:00
Pinching themselves to see if it's realSEÁN SCANNELL, the 17-year-old Crystal Palace winger, admitted to having spent much of the past week pinching himself, struggling…Sat May 24 2008 - 01:00
Keane set for pivotal roleHAVING MISSED out on the training week in the Algarve Robbie Keane, the Republic of Ireland captain, and Richard Dunne joined…Fri May 23 2008 - 01:00
Cashley denies Ronaldo a clean sweepIT WAS John O'Shea who ruefully conceded two years ago that Manchester United had been usurped, no longer the holders of a much…Sat May 17 2008 - 01:00
Green light for Beijing proves fitting reward for ByrneIRISH TIMES SPORTSWOMAN OF THE YEAR: THE LINK between Ardcalf, Eislingen, Ohio and Beijing might not, perhaps, be immediately…Wed May 14 2008 - 01:00
For some, with victory there is still no survival on massive dayTV VIEW: ALEX McLEISH, Steve Coppell and Roy Hodgson were probably delivering the same words to their players at that precise…Mon May 12 2008 - 01:00
Norn Irons glamourous lifestyle never gets goingTV VIEW: IT WAS, perhaps, the moment Leeanne Druse swallowed a fly while watching her boyfriend, Armagh Gaelic footballer Ronan…Mon May 05 2008 - 01:00
Moscow police stuck between Red Devils and Deep Blue CThe TV pundits' views on Chelsea v LiverpoolThu May 01 2008 - 01:00
Give Munster’s O’Connell a bell if there is a Martian invasionTV VIEW: AS WE MOVED in to added time in Coventry yesterday we switched over to RTÉ2 to watch a bit of Mars Attacks!, a film…Mon Apr 28 2008 - 01:00
Ireland face daunting taskWOMEN'S HOCKEY: FEW, IF any, Irish squads have gone in to a major tournament better prepared, Gene Muller's players having had…Fri Apr 25 2008 - 01:00
Returning from the grave an onrunning themeThe TV pundits' views on Liverpool v Chelsea THEY'D MET so many times before last night's Champions League knockabout that we…Wed Apr 23 2008 - 01:00
People of Wexford take Hunty's low blow on the Vera LynnTV VIEW: WE'VE LEARNT the last while that Stephen Hunt has much the same approach to chatting with the media as he does to his…Mon Apr 21 2008 - 01:00
Carty hails his miracle as he makes his markSO THEN, the 2008 Golf Masters is up and runningThu Apr 17 2008 - 01:00
Taniguchi, Kresge and Lynn have to go it aloneFOR EVERY Shiv in Golf Masters' land there's a Toru, one player fighting off the affections of our managers, the other standing…Thu Apr 17 2008 - 01:00
Carberry jumps ahead of gifted packTHE IRISH TIMES SPORTSWOMAN OF THE YEAR: OCCASIONALLY, SINCE these awards were born back in 2004, the judges have had a tricky…Wed Apr 09 2008 - 01:00
Hermes are set to regain Leinster titleWOMEN'S HOCKEY : SHORT OF THEM suffering the mother of all calamities against Pembroke Wanderers this evening - namely a defeat…Mon Apr 07 2008 - 01:00
BBC, half-a-brain Donald and duck sends us all quackersTV VIEW: The weekend, to be honest, didn't start too wellMon Apr 07 2008 - 01:00
Hermes nearly home and dryWOMEN'S HOCKEY PREVIEWS: HAVING DONE their work on Wednesday night, when they beat Trinity 5-0 to go three points clear at the…Fri Apr 04 2008 - 01:00
Ballymoney face difficult assignmentWOMEN'S HOCKEY : THEY'VE ALREADY finished runners-up to Pegasus twice this season, in the Ulster Shield and League, so Ballymoney…Fri Mar 28 2008 - 00:00
