Philly Mcmahon
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Summer 2012 – when Mayo ended Old Dublin’s reign
- Gaelic Football
- December 19, 2020, 06:00
In a fast crowded decade, it is the game that has somehow fallen through time. Nobody talks about Mayo-Dublin 2012, which is a shame. It was signific(...)

Darragh Ó Sé’s player-by-player guide to the Dublin team
- Gaelic Football
- December 18, 2020, 18:00
1. Stephen Cluxton Club: Parnells Age: 39 Height: 6’1” Weight: 12st 8lbs Occupation: Teacher One of the greatest players of all time. His appetite s(...)

Robbie McDaid announces himself as the next Dublin man to come around
- Gaelic Football
- December 5, 2020, 21:16
The man comes around. Or perhaps in this pandemic winter, it’s the men coming around that continue to put the Dublin footballers in a height and weigh(...)

Malachy Clerkin’s sports books of the year for 2020
- Sport
- December 5, 2020, 06:00
The Best Champagne Football by Mark Tighe and Paul Rowan (Penguin, €12.99) We’re a mad little country at the back of it all. Where else (...)

Dublin beat Laois in the usual Leinster semi-final cakewalk
- Gaelic Football
- November 15, 2020, 19:05
Dublin 2-23 Laois 0-7 In the 68th minute of the usual Leinster semi-final cakewalk for Dublin, Paul Mannion cut in off the right and fed Ciarán Kilke(...)

Sporting upsets: When Donegal sent Jim Gavin and Dublin back to the drawing board
- Gaelic Football
- September 1, 2020, 06:00
Irish people are a reliably sanctimonious lot when it comes to the GAA. Rarely more so, in fact. We go on as if no other sport is community-based, as (...)

GAA in Ballymun: The whole team were called ‘scumbags’ by grown adults
- TV, Radio, Web
- August 13, 2020, 23:15
As you may have guessed from previous pieces I have written, I’m not particularly knowledgeable about sportsball. I know some of “the sports”, of cour(...)

Coronavirus: ‘The people involved in this business are so vulnerable’
- Culture
- March 17, 2020, 06:00
As precautionary measures against Covid-19 virus intensify, one of the most vulnerable sectors is the arts, where the majority of workers are self-emp(...)

Back in the days when English tennis player Tim Henman was the sport’s perpetual runner-up, British satirical magazine Private Eye ran a series of spo(...)

Singer-songwriter Lesley Roy has been chosen to represent Ireland in the 2020 Eurovision in the Netherlands. The 33-year-old Balbriggan, Co Dublin, na(...)