Jimmy Mcgee
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Keith Duggan: Through the glories and the disgraces, we were all Maradona addicts
- Soccer
- November 25, 2020
“Ah, different class.” “Difffff-rent Classssss!” Sometimes the gods are benevolent and the television commentators fuse with what is happening befor(...)

My favourite sporting moment: The day Pfaff’s long fingers denied Ireland
- International
- April 17, 2020, 06:00
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: ‘They probably saw me as . . . a showman.'
- Gaelic Games
- March 30, 2019, 07:30
“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 (...)

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(...)

Entrepreneurial spirit trumps talk of water charges
- Business
- May 25, 2016, 01:00
Last Saturday, some 100 Irish entrepreneurs travelled to Boston as part of the annual EY Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) chief executives retreat. The(...)