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Kim Ng’s long wait for top MLB job shows what women are up against
- Other Sports
- November 19, 2020, 06:00
“This challenge is one I don’t take lightly,” said Kim Ng, following last Friday’s announcement of her hiring as general manager for the Miami Marlins(...)

America at Large: Golfers guilty of legitimising Trump’s toxic regime
- Golf
- October 29, 2020, 06:00
On Monday, October 12th, the number of American deaths from Coronavirus surpassed 212,000, unemployment closed in on eight per cent and food banks rep(...)

I guess the problem is that we’ve all become, in our heads, American. We’ve become so subsumed into the Sky Atlantic/Netflix/Amazon Prime culture that(...)

Dave Hannigan: 20 years of highs and lows in the US with sport at the centre
- Other Sports
- July 25, 2020, 08:00
Some months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks I was driving three Muslim lads through the outskirts of New York City when my battered Honda Accord shud(...)

Mary Hannigan’s (completely random) A to Z guide to the 2019 sporting year
- Sport
- December 28, 2019, 06:16
A – Asking for trouble Headline on the The42.ie ahead of Ireland’s Six Nations meeting with England back in February: “England adds experienced Josep(...)

Five sports documentaries to watch on Netflix
- Sport
- August 27, 2019, 01:00
Icarus Bryan Fogel’s 2018 Oscar-winning documentary about Russia’s Olympic doping program was originally supposed to expose the drug testing process (...)

Valiant Doddie Weir still fighting the good fight
- Rugby
- January 8, 2019, 06:00
Doddie Weir sits down and starts to bang out jokes. A lot are about drinking although now he struggles to hold a pint of Guinness. He knows he is dy(...)

Cork in the 80s: documenting a difficult decade in the city’s history
- Books
- December 20, 2018, 11:11
A line from Philip Larkin was on my mind while working on this project. Not the famous reference to his parents, but an aside about beginnin(...)

Why baseball is so alluring for this working class girl from Belfast
- Abroad
- October 26, 2018, 12:58
I don’t know how it will turn out, but for today at least, the Boston Red Sox are ahead in the 2018 World Series, two ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers(...)

Greed, ego and deception: Paul Manafort’s rise and fall
- US
- August 13, 2018, 11:59
A week before the Trump presidential campaign announced that it had hired Paul Manafort, a New York Yankees ticket specialist alerted him that his ann(...)