Start your engines
Amy Eustace examines the early performances and off the track storylines in the young Formula One season. We’re only two races into to the 2012 Formula 1 season and already tensions are riding high. While the opening day in Melbourne didn’t throw up too many surprises, heavy rain in Sepang on the second week made [...]
Young Marian side fail to build on last year’s Cinderella story
Conall Devlin reviews UCD Marian’s 2011/2012 Superleague and National Cup campaigns with Daniel James UCD Marian came into the 2011/2012 campaign on an unprecedented high after snatching a historic National Cup victory over Killester last year. Going into the season, and as is normal for Superleague Basketball teams with American recruits, changes to personnel [...]
The UCD ladies hockey team clinched the Leinster division one league title in dramatic fashion as they leapfrogged rivals Railway Union on the last day of matches. A tense 1-0 win for UCD against Old Alexandra combined with a 2-2 draw for Railway Union against Hermes left the two sides level on 46 points at [...]
Messi the modern great
Recently, Lionel Messi, while playing for Barcelona against Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League, scored five goals in a 7-1 victory. This was an unprecedented accomplishment in the world’s biggest club competition and one which drew the now-familiar wave of plaudits from football experts around the globe. Wayne Rooney tweeted that the little Argentinean was [...]
Keith Fahey: “I was just playing to play football.”
Keith Fahey is one of a generation of former League of Ireland players making a name for himself in the top levels of English football. He tells Amy Eustace about the journey he’s taken in football and also looks ahead to the race for promotion with Birmingham and Euro 2012. Keith Fahey is one [...]
Baseball’s Back
S pring Training, the curious little pilgrimage to Florida and Arizona that all major league teams make each year, kicked off at the beginning of the March and as usual it has offered the baseball world a chance to see all the changes and shakeups of the offseason out on the diamond for the first [...]
One night in Paris
What about the fans? Patrick Fleming muses on where our priorities should lie on the Stade de France fiasco Saturday evening at a packed Stade de France and there are only moments to go until kick off. The crowd waits in anticipation as the players begin lining up in the tunnel. Meanwhile, in a corner of the [...]
Zambia restore faith in the beautiful game
For all of football’s glaringly obvious faults, every now and then the moments of controversy are counterbalanced by moments of beauty; moments which remind us why we bother with the whole rigmarole at all, and moments that make us remember why we fell in love with it in the first place. Against the backdrop of [...]
“Linsanity” taking the NBA by storm
In this week’s Down the Line, Conall Devlin writes about one of the most miraculous sports stories in recent memory, the emergence of New York Knicks’ Jeremy Lin. The unheralded, undrafted underdog story is one that is regularly swept up by all sports fans, yet even in the year of NFL star Tim Tebow none can compare [...]
The Long Road to London
Ciarán Carey meets up with Irish Table Tennis Paralympian Eimear Breathnach as we begin looking ahead to the Olympic and Paralympic games in London this summer. Ten minutes until game time: “I’ll listen to a particular song a couple of times, on repeat, to try and get your adrenaline going and try and block out [...]