Mark Keane
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Funny old games: The sporting year in a year like no other
- Sport
- December 30, 2020, 05:26
Crowds There weren’t any. And it took our pundits some time to adjust to the new normal. Eg Before Armagh played Roscommon at the Athletic Grounds: C(...)

Weekend GAA previews: TV details, throw-in times and verdicts
- Gaelic Games
- November 21, 2020, 06:00
Saturday ALL-IRELAND SHC QUARTER-FINALS Galway v Tipperary, LIT Gaelic Grounds, 1.15pm – Live on RTÉ 2. Referee: Johnny Murphy (Limerick) What’s the(...)

Malachy Clerkin: Being up close to the live sporting action is more of a privilege than ever
- Gaelic Games
- November 16, 2020, 01:00
And just like that, the championship is half over. We’ve hardly had time to get a bit of wear out of the good winter coat and already the season is l(...)

Joanne O’Riordan: Cork women created county’s template for success
- Gaelic Games
- November 12, 2020, 05:00
Living in Millstreet, about five miles from the Kerry border, it’s not easy to accept that losing in men’s football, especially in Munster championshi(...)

Kevin McStay: Dublin the biggest beneficiaries of Kingdom’s shock exit
- Gaelic Football
- November 10, 2020, 06:00
Sometimes in sport, time slows down. It certainly felt like that to the few of us gathered spellbound and frozen in Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday evening(...)

Cork relish breakthrough after dramatic win over Kerry
- Gaelic Football
- November 9, 2020, 06:04
An hour after it was over, a line of cars had gathered out on the Monahan Road, just by the entrance to Páirc Uí Chaoimh. You wouldn’t say there was m(...)

Six Irish AFL players face 14-day quarantine on return to Australia
- Sport
- May 20, 2020, 16:00
Six former intercounty footballers have been cleared to return to Australia this weekend to resume their AFL careers after winning visa approval to re(...)

New seagoing tax credit will not stop retention crisis, say Naval Service bodies
- Irish News
- November 18, 2019, 22:21
Naval Service representatives have welcomed a Government announcement of a special tax credit of almost €1,300 a year for those on sea patrol duty but(...)

Defence Forces members are living on boats ‘deemed unsuitable for accommodation’
- Irish News
- October 2, 2019, 21:50
The president of the Defence Forces representative body Pdforra has said conditions for members are so bad that 80 naval personnel are living on boats(...)

Naval Service and sailors lament ending of Operation Sophia
- Irish News
- April 2, 2019, 01:00
As word spread through the Naval Service last week that Operation Sophia, the European Union’s military mission to rescue migrants in the southern Med(...)