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# tribe-tale - Monday 19 August, 2019
'I wasn't myself... I look back and say, 'God, what would have happened if I didn't go back?''
Football has given Sinead Burke so much. Ahead of her first outing as a player in Croke Park, the Galway stalwart looks back to when she nearly threw it all away.
# tribe-tale - Sunday 16 June, 2019
'When you smell it and live it and see kids dying, it's very hard not to do something about it'
Former Galway dual star Alan Kerins shares the brilliant story of his remarkable work in Africa.
# tribe-tale - Tuesday 7 August, 2018
'If you saw him going to the pitch, straight away you were going practicing the same things he was'
Galway U21 hurling captain Fintan Burke is following in his cousin David’s footsteps.
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Poll: Should Ireland only fund Olympic sports where we have the best chance of winning?
IRISH ATHLETES WINNING medals at the Olympic Games is as wonderful as it is rare.
On the all-time list of medal-winning countries we come in about 60th place, depending on what exactly you’re counting.
As a small country it’s clearly very hard for Ireland to compete with the big nations but one of the suggestions that’s been put forward is only funding the sports where we have the best chance of winning.
It’s a model adopted by the similarly-sized New Zealand that has proved very successful in recent years.
In the latest episode of our Ireland 2029 podcast series, we take a look at whether Ireland could go down that route and what advantages and disadvantages there are to it.
But are the Olympics all about winning, or is taking part important too?
Poll: Should Ireland only fund Olympic sports where we have the best chance of winning?
Poll Results:
No (1038)
Yes (426)
Don't know (50)
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Simon Coveney: The backstop is overwhelmingly supported. This gets little recognition in the UK Brexit debate
By Simon Coveney - @simoncoveney
A hard Brexit, if the UK chooses one, will be ugly and difficult, says the Tánaiste.
'Collecting the school voluntary contribution is an unwanted and stressful obligation on principals'
By Joseph A Moynihan
As things stand, the contribution is needed to keep school doors open, writes Joseph A Moynihan.
Katy Hayward: Why we should take note of the unexpected in Boris Johnson's letter to Donald Tusk
By Katy Hayward - @hayward_katy
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