Tim Rabbitt

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Armagh v Roscommon in the National League in October: Armagh had "home advantage", courtesy of self-portraits from over 3,000 primary school children across the county in the stands. Photograph: Inpho/Ryan Byrne
Funny old games: The sporting year in a year like no other

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(...)

Galway take on Cork at Croke Park in the moved All-Ireland semi-final. Photograph: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile
Joanne O’Riordan: Croke Park fiasco highlights grounds for concern

They say controversy is the best, and perhaps only, way to be sure of getting women’s sport into the papers. After a successful All-Ireland semi-final(...)

Galway’s Sinead Burke and Mairead Seoighe after Sunday’s All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Cork. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho
One step forward, two steps back for women’s sport

The conversation at our breakfast table livened up no end last Wednesday when the sports headlines announced that an All-Ireland senior semi-final bet(...)

Hannah O’Neill scores Dublin’s second goal during the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Football Senior Championship Final against Galway at Croke Park. Photograph: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile
Dublin secure the three-in-a-row in front of a record crowd

Dublin 2-3 Galway 0-4 The roar at the final hooter from the stands containing a record crowd of 56,114 was cacophonous, those bedecked in blue not gi(...)

Dublin’s Aoife Kane in action against Cork’s Eimear Kiely during the league semi-final at Nowlan Park. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho
Joanne O’Riordan: Stage set for intriguing semi-finals

And then there were four. It took eight games across two weekends to give us our history-making semi-finalists who, for the first time ever, will pl(...)