Steve Staunton
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England v Republic of Ireland – The last six meetings
- International
- November 11, 2020, 17:08
1. June 11th, 1990 World Cup (Cagliari) Republic of Ireland 1 (Kevin Sheedy, 73) England 1 (Gary Lineker, 9). You might remember this one. Of all pe(...)

Brawls to handballs: The complete guide to Ireland’s playoff history
- International
- October 8, 2020, 06:00
1966 World Cup Irish goalkeeper Pat Dunne can only watch as Jose Antonio Ufarte scores the only goal of the playoff for the 1966 World Cup (...)

Worst Sporting Moment: Drowned and nearly out as Jack Charlton era peters out
- International
- August 21, 2020, 06:00
Standing there in the driving rain on November 15th, 1995, it was hard to comprehend just how much optimism there had initially been about the Irish t(...)

Worst sporting moment: White knuckle ride on a hate-filled night at Windsor
- International
- August 13, 2020, 07:00
Ask any reporter and they’ll tell you being inside a glassed-in press box is no way to watch a sporting event. Echoey, removed and unnatural. But on t(...)

Stephen Ireland hoping to rekindle Ireland career 13 years later
- International
- June 24, 2020, 12:25
More than two years after his last competitive game of professional football, former international Stephen Ireland says he is planning to return to th(...)

Roy Keane’s former adviser Michael Kennedy has died
- Soccer
- June 22, 2020, 13:40
Michael Kennedy, the London-born property solicitor who came to prominence in the run up to the 2002 World Cup when he was an adviser to Roy Keane, ha(...)

Christopher ‘Kicky’ McCormack obituary: Music lover and best friend to many
- People
- May 14, 2020, 16:50
This article is one of a series about people who have died with coronavirus in Ireland and among the diaspora. Read more at irishtimes.com/covid-19-li(...)

Sporting Controversies: The whole story of Saipan and how the saga unfolded
- International
- May 9, 2020, 07:35
It was three o’clock in the morning in a noodle bar by the train station in Daejeon when I ran into an English reporter I’d shared a hotel with at the(...)

FAI may have stumbled on right choice again in Stephen Kenny
- International
- April 11, 2020, 06:00
Say what you like about the FAI – and you will, you have – but no sports organisation can rip it up and start again with quite as boldly as Irish foot(...)

Understated Stephen Kenny offers Ireland a ray of light
- International
- April 4, 2020, 18:36
Whatever else you can say about the rise of Stephen Kenny to the role of full-time Republic of Ireland manager, none of it could ever have been descri(...)