Bernard Brogan
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David Clarke’s retirement leaves Mayo with a hole to fill
- Gaelic Football
- January 4, 2021, 19:04
For almost half a decade the slow trickle of Mayo’s golden generation into retirement has emitted a collective sigh from the football-mad county that (...)

Summer 2012 – when Mayo ended Old Dublin’s reign
- Gaelic Football
- December 19, 2020, 06:00
In a fast crowded decade, it is the game that has somehow fallen through time. Nobody talks about Mayo-Dublin 2012, which is a shame. It was signific(...)

Fundraiser to bring father of two home after cycling brain injury
- Fine Art & Antiques
- December 19, 2020, 06:00
It has been a tough year, and many want to see an end to what has certainly earned the moniker annus horribilis. For the family of Des Vallely, who e(...)

Bernard Brogan: ‘Finances didn’t win five All-Irelands in a row’
- Gaelic Games
- December 19, 2020, 06:00
Oh no. Not another article about money and the Dubs. Turn the page, Mammy. Make the bad man stop. It’s All-Ireland final day. It’s nearly Christmas we(...)

Malachy Clerkin’s sports books of the year for 2020
- Sport
- December 5, 2020, 06:00
The Best Champagne Football by Mark Tighe and Paul Rowan (Penguin, €12.99) We’re a mad little country at the back of it all. Where else (...)

Dublin’s James McCarthy relishes challenge of revamped championship
- Gaelic Football
- October 16, 2020, 06:00
James McCarthy mentions the symmetry of it. On Saturday he and Dublin will face Meath in the resumed football league at Parnell Park. It takes him bac(...)

Dublin’s James McCarthy relishes challenge of revamped championship
- Gaelic Football
- October 16, 2020, 06:00
James McCarthy mentions the symmetry of it. On Saturday he and Dublin will face Meath in the resumed football league at Parnell Park. It takes him bac(...)

Jason Sherlock: ‘Every year Dublin are vulnerable’
- Gaelic Football
- October 15, 2020, 06:00
Vulnerable. Weakened. Satiated. Untested. Uncharted. Jason Sherlock has heard all the whispers around the Dublin football team going into the pandemi(...)

Jason Sherlock believes Mayo may benefit from not being crowded out
- Gaelic Games
- October 14, 2020, 14:31
With further restrictions around Covid-19 being implemented in the North and seemingly South of the border too it’s virtually certain the entire 2020 (...)

Tipping point: GAA facing a second earthquake, the cost of a split season
- Gaelic Games
- September 21, 2020, 05:00
The weekend almost felt normal. You could sit down at lunchtime on Saturday and wrap a sports bubble around you for the rest of it. There was 10 hour(...)