Anthony Foley
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David Wallace: Munster have the firepower to scale Europe again
- European Cup
- January 11, 2019, 06:00
David Wallace was an ever-present in Munster’s 2005-06 and 2007-08 Heineken Cup-winning campaigns, since when they have failed to lift the trophy desp(...)

Billy Holland set to make it 200 not out for Munster
- Pro14
- January 2, 2019, 06:00
Billy Holland will chalk up his 200th appearance for Munster this weekend in Galway but it took the toss of a coin – or several tosses as it turned ou(...)

Miriam Lord: Senator says ‘highwayman’ slur helped rob him of his seat
- Politics
- November 21, 2018, 22:24
When Crotty the Robber stood on the gallows in Waterford city in 1742, he probably assumed his courtroom days were behind him. He was wrong. And whe(...)

O’Mahony’s finest hour as he attends to unfinished business
- International
- November 19, 2018, 06:30
Peter O’Mahony smiling on national television. What’s rare is wonderful. We can’t hear him because the Fields of Athenry reverberates around the sta(...)

Matt Williams: New Zealand are in Dublin to crush a Celtic uprising
- International
- November 17, 2018, 07:58
When Ireland played New Zealand at Lansdowne Road in 2001, I took my then seven-year-old son, Teddy, hoping his first international rugby experience w(...)

Odds stacked against bookmakers as policy makers target gambling
- Retail & Services
- November 6, 2018, 02:15
These are difficult times for bookmakers on both sides of the Irish Sea. In October, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe doubled the betting duty to (...)

Ronan O’Gara: Munster defeating Exeter would be ‘absolutely huge’
- European Cup
- October 13, 2018, 08:10
Heineken are back as title sponsors and arguably no team is more synonymous with the competition, nor provided more of its greatest memories, than Mun(...)

Gordon D’Arcy: Beirne’s arrival can help take Munster to another level
- Rugby
- October 3, 2018, 06:00
Paddy Johns has no knee cartilage but the 50-year-old remains an iron man. Literally. The former Ireland captain does triathlons in his spare time awa(...)

Gin craze takes off as sales of Irish whiskey also soar
- Agribusiness & Food
- September 6, 2018, 05:00
It’s official. Gin is in. Sales of the spirit once informally known as mother’s ruin jumped last year with volumes rising 47.2 per cent. With locally(...)

Anthony Foley’s widow talks of support from ‘family of sport’ in darkest hours
- Religion & Beliefs
- August 23, 2018, 18:35
Olive Foley, widow of Munster rugby coach Anthony Foley, delivered an emotional tribute to the “family of sport” that supported her and her family aft(...)