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Last year
2025
edging apart
Rift opens as LOI clubs reject FAI’s ‘poorly conceived’ coaching plan
11 Mar 2025
6.1k
10
Alan Sheehan
The little-known Athlone man close to landing Swansea City job in England's Championship
8 Mar 2025
4.1k
2
Preview
Several in-form Irish athletes head to European indoors with realistic medal aspirations
6 Mar 2025
2.7k
2
column
Gaelic football’s age of ambiguity is ending - it’s now facing a harsh reality
6 Mar 2025
3.2k
6
talking point
Kelleher's post-game message to Alisson captures an all-time performance in a Champions League heist
Alisson turned in one of the great individual performances as Liverpool pulled off a stunningly underserved victory against PSG.
Gavin Cooney
5 Mar 2025
16.7k
6
parrott taken flight
Parrott: No regrets about Spurs exit ahead of Europa League reunion
5 Mar 2025
3.5k
7
cause for concern
Broken political promises, no funding and a lack of contact hours: Ireland's struggling academy system
2 Mar 2025
4.8k
2
Political Football
Government says promised funding for LOI academies is 'not imminent'
27 Feb 2025
3.4k
10
column
Irish football fans long to be called arrogant - rugby supporters should enjoy it
There are far worse traits than arrogance in elite sport.
Gavin Cooney
27 Feb 2025
1.8k
11
talking point
Arsenal have themselves to blame for flaming out of title race so early
Arsenal’s failure to sign attacking talent last summer look strange at the time, and now looks utterly bizarre.
27 Feb 2025
1.6k
6
euro wrap
Keane eases pressure at Ferencvaros with first league win, Madrid go second in La Liga
23 Feb 2025
3.9k
2
need for speed
Mawdsley retains national 400m indoor title, Sarah Healy breaks own 1500m record
23 Feb 2025
6.9k
3
talking point
Liverpool's easy win over City makes poor comparison with spectacle of Klopp/Pep classics
Liverpool were easy 2-0 winners at the home of the broken champions.
Gavin Cooney
23 Feb 2025
2.8k
4
the numbers game
'We need to find the next Will Jarvis' - How Shelbourne are embracing football's data revolution
Shels have signed an exclusive deal with the data company that fuelled Brighton’s success – Technical director Luke Byrne explains how it will work.
23 Feb 2025
3.0k
0
road to bilbao
Manchester United to meet Real Sociedad in Europa League, Parrott returns to Spurs
21 Feb 2025
3.9k
3
Ties
Liverpool to face PSG in Champions League last-16, Arsenal drawn against PSV
21 Feb 2025
5.3k
26
Reaction
'We have definitely helped grow the league outside Ireland' - Deflated Bradley's pride in Shamrock Rovers
The Rovers boss also expressed his disappointment that his side were forced to play a league fixture between the two legs of their knockout tie against Molde.
Gavin Cooney
Reports from Tallaght Stadium
21 Feb 2025
1.7k
7
a brutal end
Penalty shootout despair for Shamrock Rovers as European run brought to an end
A depleted Rovers were beaten 5-4 on penalties after a 1-0 second-leg loss to Molde.
Gavin Cooney
reports from Tallaght Stadium
20 Feb 2025
4.5k
29
RELATED
Shamrock Rovers boss blasts FAI - 'You don’t understand Irish football... That’s not how we treat each other'
19 Feb 2025
A relentless spirit: Sligo Rovers building towards a different kind of future
15 Feb 2025
No men's international in over 40 years: How Limerick became Irish football's great underperformer
13 Feb 2025
Reaction
Reynolds hopes Bohs return to the Aviva again following Rovers victory
16 Feb 2025
2.1k
1
RELATED
Bohemians' leadership on and off the pitch secure derby win and epochal occasion
16 Feb 2025
Bohemians show class and resolve to win historic derby against Shamrock Rovers
16 Feb 2025
Magic in Molde: 24 hours with Shamrock Rovers fans on historic European trip
14 Feb 2025
brave new world
Bohemians' leadership on and off the pitch secure derby win and epochal occasion
Gavin Cooney
reports from the Aviva Stadium
16 Feb 2025
2.6k
1
need to talk about kevin
'It was as if we had never played a game of football before, with some of the stuff I was listening to'
15 Feb 2025
4.5k
1
Stalemate
Mason Melia cameo not enough as Pat's frustrated at home by resilient Drogheda
It finished 0-0 at Richmond Park.
Gavin Cooney
reports from Richmond Park
14 Feb 2025
1.5k
1
column
Ireland's uncritical embrace of the NFL is bizarre and rooted in a more deferential time
The Pittsburgh Steelers game at Croke Park hasn’t been met with anything like the ambivalence reserved for other major events, like co-hosting Euro 2028.
Gavin Cooney
13 Feb 2025
3.8k
19
catalogue of problems
No men's international in over 40 years: How Limerick became Irish football's great underperformer
We look at the structural and historical reasons behind Limerick’s great failure to contribute to the Irish national team – and determine what should be done to fix things.
13 Feb 2025
4.2k
3
My Goodness
Bohemians' latest away kit is a 1980s throwback with Guinness
12 Feb 2025
4.6k
10
Interview
'It's always there' - Ruairí Keating opens up on grief, and why he needed to return to Cork
Ruairí Keating speaks exclusively to The 42 about coming to terms with the tragic loss of his father.
8 Feb 2025
7.4k
4
Potential Move
Leinster centre Ben Brownlee training with Munster
7 Feb 2025
11.9k
1
going mainstream
Major breakthrough for LIV Golf as they agree free-to-air broadcast deal with ITV
7 Feb 2025
3.1k
3
Staying Put
RTÉ agree deal to retain live rights to WNT matches
7 Feb 2025
1.8k
3
RIP
Former Dublin goalkeeper and manager Paddy Cullen dies aged 80
7 Feb 2025
3.8k
6
column
RTÉ guilty of a lack of vision by allowing League of Ireland TV rights pass to Virgin Media
RTÉ have fumbled the rights to the League of Ireland at just the moment it is bound for significant success.
Gavin Cooney
6 Feb 2025
1.9k
3
stock replenished
Hume, Stockdale and McCloskey to make Ulster returns against Queensland Reds
5 Feb 2025
3.7k
22
PGA Tour
Stunning finish sees Rory McIlroy win Pebble Beach Pro-Am ahead of Shane Lowry
It as an Irish one-two in the second signature event of the 2025 season.
Gavin Cooney
2 Feb 2025
7.0k
23
Flying High
Parrott scores again in AZ win, Inter snatch late derby draw
2 Feb 2025
6.3k
1
talking point
Humiliated Haaland becoming a problem for Manchester City
Haaland scored in City’s 5-1 loss at Arsenal – but he offered little else in general play.
Gavin Cooney
2 Feb 2025
18.8k
13
column
The Lewis-Skelly episode is the final proof - VAR must be binned
VAR does not work as it is a false prophet preaching certainty, a certainty that does not – and cannot – exist in football.
Gavin Cooney
30 Jan 2025
1.9k
7
lys on lease
Bohemians take €12 million former Premier League striker on trial
28 Jan 2025
14.3k
11
graduation night
Kelleher set to play against PSV with Irish U19 international also named in Liverpool squad
28 Jan 2025
5.5k
4
talking point
McKenna's flexibility gives Ipswich improbable shot at beating the drop
Gavin Cooney
25 Jan 2025
1.9k
2
LOI
No Rovers return for Darragh Burns as he agrees deal with Grimsby
24 Jan 2025
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