Sean O Connor
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Clonmel Commercials ease into another Tipperary football final
- Gaelic Football
- September 5, 2020, 20:05
Clonmel Commercials 0-12 Kilsheelan/Kilcash 0-6 Tipperary senior football champions Clonmel Commercials are through to yet another county decider aft(...)

Tokyo ’64 Revisited: lifelong tales of Olympic experience
- Other Sports
- August 8, 2020, 06:00
Sayonara – only instead of the farewell blessing to what should have been the end of 2020 Tokyo Olympics this weekend, it is the wishful thinking that(...)

Coronavirus: Is insufficient testing a big weakness in our attack?
- Health
- April 10, 2020, 03:07
Each day more stories emerge of people concerned over delays in coronavirus testing. One man who spoke to The Irish Times this week had been trying t(...)

Refereeing not for the faint-hearted or sensitive
- Soccer
- November 9, 2019, 07:00
There are around 1,300 referees registered at various levels across the country according to the FAI. Some 250 to 275 come through the beginners’ cou(...)

Cocaine in Ireland: ‘The average consumer is a farmer or nurse... It’s universal’
- Crime & Law
- October 28, 2019, 01:21
According to the Health Research Board’s newsletter, cocaine use has now “returned to Celtic Tiger levels in Ireland”. It is an assertion that will c(...)

Munster have extended Tyler Bleyendaal’s contract
- Pro14
- February 20, 2019, 12:58
Munster have extended the contract of injury prone outhalf Tyler Bleyendaal, as well as four other players. Bleyendaal, Ciaran Parker and Alby Mathew(...)

Work to start on first cost-rental scheme near Sandyford
- Social Affairs
- January 31, 2019, 19:18
Construction of the State’s first cost-rental housing scheme, which will provide homes near Sandyford at below-market rents, is to get under way this (...)

Newry-based StatSports scores lucrative deal with Chinese Football Association
- Technology
- November 5, 2018, 05:15
Irish sports tech company StatSports has scored yet again with a multimillion euro deal with the Chinese Football Association for its performance moni(...)

Rental crisis, Digicel legal action, andStatSport strikes sporting gold
- Economy
- August 17, 2018, 06:30
A new report has highlighted the chronic shortage of student housing in Dublin and other cities, while accusing the Government of “negligent inaction”(...)

How two Newry boys scored with Liverpool, Dublin and Brazil
- Technology
- August 17, 2018, 06:00
Talk to any company bigwig and they’ll happily bang on about how the staff make their business. Some of them even believe it. Few speak about it with (...)