The sports pages of Tuesday 26 September 2000 had a quieter job than most Olympic mornings. They had to take a Monday the country had already lived through the television, and set it down in column width. At 10:55 a.m. Irish time on Monday 25 September, Stadium...
The sports pages of Monday 20 September 1982 had a job Irish newspapers are not often given. They had to take a Sunday the country had already, in its bones, awarded to Kerry, and set it in type the other way round. Sunday had been the All-Ireland football final at...
The history of rugby in Ireland begins in the schools and colleges of the mid-nineteenth century. A club at Dublin University was formed in 1854; within a generation the game had spread to clubs such as Wanderers (1869), Queen’s University (1869) and Lansdowne...
There are conflicting ideas of when and where in the world golf originated. The confusion tends to arise when examining what exactly constitutes golf. There are many examples of games involving getting a ball to a target by using a stick – going back so far in...
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