Mick Galwey
26 results

Gordon D’Arcy: Irish players know it only takes one idiotic moment to bring rugby down
- Pro14
- August 26, 2020, 06:00
Got the email last Wednesday. Filled in the form. Next came my time to arrive on Saturday for a temperature check. All the precautions you would expec(...)

Sporting Cathedrals: Fortress Thomond, where the 16th man always gets his game
- Rugby
- July 22, 2020, 06:00
Picture the scene. Around tea-time on a Saturday, it’s approaching kick-off. Munster have their backs to the wall yet again, some Fancy Dans from Engl(...)

Ian McKinley's refusal to accept defeat inspires
- Rugby
- May 15, 2020, 06:00
Few Irish rugby players have a documentary made about them, but then again few have a story quite like Ian McKinley’s. Of course he’s an Italian now, (...)

It’s been 20 years since the Red Army was born in Bordeaux
- Rugby
- May 7, 2020, 14:00
On a glorious sunny day in Bordeaux on May 6th 2000, it was 20 years ago this week, the Red Army was born. It was also the day that Munster truly anno(...)

Opportunity knocks for JJ Hanrahan as cards fall his way
- European Cup
- December 14, 2019, 06:00
JJ Hanrahan has had one of the more curious career stories in modern Irish rugby. Opportunity has finally started to knock for a truly rare talent, w(...)

Irish rugby must look to GAA’s top talent for a brighter future
- International
- October 20, 2019, 15:45
The Barrett clan spent 15 months living in Meath. They played Gaelic football for St Brigid’s while the father, who promised he would “breed All Black(...)

Fine Gael senator says article turned his name into ‘garbage’
- High Court
- November 22, 2018, 19:03
A Fine Gael senator has told the High Court that “for the rest of my life my name is garbage” as a result of a local newspaper article which compared (...)

Miriam Lord: Senator says ‘highwayman’ slur helped rob him of his seat
- Politics
- November 21, 2018, 22:24
When Crotty the Robber stood on the gallows in Waterford city in 1742, he probably assumed his courtroom days were behind him. He was wrong. And whe(...)

Fine Gael senator claims article made him subject of ‘ridicule’
- High Court
- November 21, 2018, 18:07
A Fine Gael senator suing over a newspaper story which he says described him as a robber has told the High Court he was shocked and upset when he saw (...)

Twickenham. The worst place to lose, but the best place to win. Come the full-time whistle this afternoon the ground will either be reverberating to S(...)