Jimmy Mcgee

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Diego Maradona dribbles past three English defenders during the World Cup quarter-final against England at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. Photograph: AFP via Getty Images
Keith Duggan: Through the glories and the disgraces, we were all Maradona addicts

“Ah, different class.” “Difffff-rent Classssss!” Sometimes the gods are benevolent and the television commentators fuse with what is happening befor(...)

Belgian goalkeeper Jean Marie Pfaff claims the ball ahead of Spanish forward Emilio Butragueno during the World Cup quarter-final in Puebla, Mexico in June 1986. Photograph: AFP via Getty Images
My favourite sporting moment: The day Pfaff’s long fingers denied Ireland

Easily the most thrilling 45 minutes I’ve ever known – up to April 1987 – is spent standing behind Jean-Marie Pfaff. Actually, I’m perched slightly ab(...)

Seán Bán Breathnach: “I was lucky,” he declares more than once
Seán Bán Breathnach: ‘They probably saw me as . . . a showman.'

“Oh, another thing I shouldn’t have done: I lay on a bed of nails,” Seán Bán Breathnach (SBB) confesses, alluding to the time when, for the gaiety of (...)

Muhammad Ali in his London hotel room, May 1963. Photograph: Hulton Archive
Muhammad Ali: the man who became king of the world

My 12-year-old son has a Muhammad Ali poster on his bedroom wall. It is the black-and-white image of Ali gloved up and in white shorts looming over th(...)

EY Entrepreneur of the Year: The six days in Boston have offered the Irish business men and women (from both sides of the Border) introductions to some of the US’s top entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurial spirit trumps talk of water charges

Last Saturday, some 100 Irish entrepreneurs travelled to Boston as part of the annual EY Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) chief executives retreat. The(...)