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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Movers and Shakers
Seán Grennan takes a look at the story lines which accompanied the close of the January transfer window. Each year January transfer windows spring up some big-money moves, with the likes of Fernando Torres, Andy Carroll and Dimitar Berbatov making winter moves in the last few years. This year’s winter window did not, however, wield [...]
Freshers’ Soccer Take Colours Glory
Wednesday, 18th January College Park Trinity College – 0 UCD – 1 Patrick Fleming When it comes to Colours matches, determination often wins the day and this was on full show in College Park on Wednesday afternoon as UCD AFC took the Fresher’s Colours Trophy back to Belfield. In a tight game with neither side [...]
Ugly Ducklings No More
In the wake of their 3-2 win against Arsenal, Amy Eustace examines the philosophy that has helped Swansea become this year’s Premiership darlings. Each year, without fail, the Premier League finds its new favourite son. The underdog quality has the league hooked; a quaint, lovable bravery – or is it naivety? – that seems to [...]
Depression and Sport: A Chance for Change
Last Sunday afternoon will be remembered by football fans as one of those very seldom days where the sport we watch is properly put into perspective. The news of the death of Gary Speed at the age of 42 was shocking; the news that it was suicide made it utterly incomprehensible. A lot of fans [...]
From Tallinn to Dublin: The Baltic Adventure
Before I begin telling you these tales from a distant land, I have a confession to make. Before last Friday, I was an away match virgin. I wasn’t under the Eiffel Tower sitting down and standing up for the boys in green, I didn’t get free cans of Carlsberg from John Delaney on a train [...]
Clubhouse
Lacrosse The UCD Men’s lacrosse team travelled to Hamburg, Germany over the bank holiday weekend to play in the European Lacrosse Club Championship. College had the privilege of representing the Irish Lacrosse League at the tournament where the greater experience of their opposition from Germany, England and Sweden proved too much as they ended with [...]
The Demise of Scottish Football
Leo Nally asks where it all went wrong for Scottish football. There was a time, not too long ago, when talented footballers plyed their trade in the Scottish Premier League. Names like Sutton, Larsson, Arteta and Gattusso graced football fields all over Scotland. Today names like Samaras, Whittaker, Lafferty and Healy darken them. The fall [...]