John O Keeffe
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Sporting upsets: When Clare delivered a Kingdom comeuppance
- Gaelic Football
- September 4, 2020, 06:00
Sunday, July 19th 1992, Gaelic Grounds, Limerick Munster SFC final: Clare 2-10, Kerry 0-12 Time mightn’t be integral to sporting shocks but it’s oft(...)

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(...)

Evidence of Iron Age temples uncovered at Navan Fort
- Irish News
- July 16, 2020, 14:05
Archaeologists believe they have uncovered “significant” evidence of Iron Age temples and residences of early kings of Ulster at Navan Fort, close to (...)

Favourite sporting moment? It’s a bit like choosing your favourite child . . .
- Sport
- March 30, 2020, 01:00
When required to reduce his 2014 concerts at Croke Park from five to three, Garth Brooks declined saying – somewhat controversially, you’d imagine, ba(...)

Can five-in-a-row be done? John O’Keeffe recalls Kerry’s bid
- Gaelic Football
- September 10, 2019, 06:00
With his precise demeanour and dislike of overstatement, John O’Keeffe steps gingerly around the idea that this is the 50th anniversary of his first s(...)

Big cuts in Garda overtime ordered by Drew Harris to reduce costs
- Crime & Law
- September 20, 2018, 20:33
Spending in An Garda Síochána is too high and overtime and other forms of discretionary spending have been cut for the remainder of the year, Garda Co(...)

Garda staff move to defend overtime spending
- Crime & Law
- September 10, 2018, 01:00
The biggest staff associations in An Garda Síochána have moved to stress the importance of overtime in providing a comprehensive policing service. Th(...)

Just one in 240 gardaí from a minority background
- Crime & Law
- May 30, 2018, 01:00
Ethnic minorities form just 0.4 per cent of An Gardaí Síochána, compared to 6 per cent of UK police forces. The lack of racial diversity in the force(...)

More than 12 gardaí sustain injuries on the job each week
- Irish News
- May 25, 2018, 19:54
The Garda Representative Association has called for Tasers to be given to all frontline gardaí after new figures showed that a dozen officers were in(...)

True-blue Jim Gavin never likely to take success for granted
- Gaelic Football
- April 23, 2018, 06:00
There was much in retrospect that looks obvious about Jim Gavin’s playing days when tracing his development into the most successful Dublin football m(...)