Colm O Rourke
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Mary Hannigan: If the hope doesn’t kill us, it’ll get us through to 2021
- Sport
- December 21, 2020, 07:00
Máire O’Shaughnessy’s thank-you list was so lengthy during her victory speech after Meath beat Westmeath in Sunday’s All-Ireland Intermediate final, h(...)

TV View: Dublin look towards seventh heaven as Mayo’s hell lingers on
- Gaelic Football
- December 19, 2020, 21:31
Ah God Mayo, how much more can ye take? Hearts smithereened all over again, still searching for a vaccine for, well, the Dubdemic. RTÉ had started th(...)

The revisionists might say otherwise, but the GAA? A class apart
- Gaelic Games
- November 22, 2020, 19:49
Ah here, as Joanne Cantwell put it, “what a weekend”, among the highlights Tipperary winning the Munster football title for the first time in 85 years(...)

Miriam Lord: Nphet’s efforts to flatten the leaky curve fall flat
- Politics
- October 17, 2020, 00:07
Spare a thought for the poor members of Nphet, many plucked from the groves of Academe or harvested from the higher echelons of the HSE and Civil Serv(...)

Working-class neighbourhoods menaced by fireworks
- Social Affairs
- September 2, 2020
Fireworks, being let off on a nightly basis and fired at people and homes, have become a “massive problem” across Dublin, residents and elected repres(...)

Worst sporting moment: Decline of the International Rules series
- Gaelic Games
- August 17, 2020, 06:00
In the RTÉ studio during half-time Colm O’Rourke, who had managed Ireland to back-to-back series wins in 1998-99 said in aghast tones that he had just(...)

Seán Moran: Boylan documentary offers a compelling insight into former Meath boss
- Gaelic Games
- August 5, 2020, 06:30
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. ‘Seán’ Alan Bradley’s compelling documentary on the life and times of Seán Boylan is an elegy for an er(...)

Seán Boylan documentary goes well beyond the football to explore the man
- Gaelic Games
- August 5, 2020, 06:00
“A Cavan man with no success whatsoever in Gaelic football,” Alan Bradley tells me, as if perfectly on cue. Because there is no scarcity of contradic(...)

Teachers voice concerns about health implications if Leaving Cert goes ahead
- Education
- May 7, 2020, 05:30
Teachers’ unions have voiced concerns with Department of Education officials about the health implications for members if the Leaving Cert goes ahead (...)

TV View: Filthy football makes thrilling return for us Normal People
- Sport
- May 4, 2020, 06:00
What exercised most of the callers to Liveline last Thursday was, of course, the filthy fornication that has featured so prominently in Normal People,(...)