Written by: Damien Richardson

( Sport )

... Cork City's exit from The FAI Ford Cup in Derry last Tuesday was heartbreaking. The long journey North and the dedicated hard work during the game, and extra time, meant that losing out to Derry on ...

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Written by: Donagh O'Herlihy

( Sport )

... On Saturday evening at 7pm, Thomond Park will reopen its doors to the Munster faithful. After an eighteen month facelift operation, the famous old ground will once again play host to some of rugby...

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Written by: Donagh O'Herlihy

( Sport )

... On Sunday evening, inter-provincial rivalries will be revived once again as the biggest domestic game of the season takes place in the RDS. Munster and Leinster will go head-to-head in the capital, ...

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Written by: Bob Honohan

( Sport )

... The Nemo Rangers club is rightly, if sometimes grudgingly, acknowledged as the foremost football force in Cork and, indeed, it can justifiably lay claim to being the most successful in the country. ...

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Written by: Damien Richardson

( Sport )

... It is important in every athlete's career that development never ceases. Whether one pays for fun, glory or money, the consistent impetus of improvement is without doubt the most influential aspect ...

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Written by: Donagh O'Herlihy

( Sport )

... With two wins from their opening two games, Munster's quest for Magners League glory has started off on the right track. The hard-fought opening-day victory away to Edinburgh was quickly followed up...

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Written by: Damien Richardson

( Sport )

...A win is a win Well prepared FAI Cup ...

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Written by: Donagh O'Herlihy

( Sport )

... This weekend Munster will play their first competitive home game since winning the Heineken Cup last May. Newport/Gwent Dragons will provide the opposition on Sunday evening as the Welsh side make t...

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Written by: Damien Richardson

( Sport )

... Following two impressive displays in their pre-season friendlies last month, Munster begin their Magners League campaign with an away trip to Edinburgh on Friday night. ...

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Written by: Donagh O'Herlihy

( Sport )

... Following two impressive displays in their pre-season friendlies last month, Munster begin their Magners League campaign with an away trip to Edinburgh on Friday night. ...

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Written by: Damien Richardson

( Sport )

...I have been very busy lately answering questions on the tradition of full-time professional football. Very few Irish people possess any real understanding of the demands necessary to create and mainta...

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Written by: Damien Richardson

( Sport )

... These are worrying days for Cork City Football club. While I am in not alone in my concern for the increasing debts and grave uncertainties that have attached themselves to Ireland's premier profess...

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Written by: Bob Honohan

( Sport )

... In last weekend's action at Croke Park football and hurling enthusiasts were treated to two of the greatest games of the championships so far. The Kerry/ Galway game on Saturday helped to demonstrat...

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Written by: Bob Honohan

( Sport )

... The recent death of Con McGrath removes yet another link with the group of footballers who really established Cork football amongst the elite following three decades in the wilderness. Con was a Gal...

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Written by: Damien Richardson

( Sport )

... Sport is part of life. Therefore sport is connected to politics, which is also part of life. And politicians have the further ability to ensure sport is a significant part of politics whenever it su...

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Written by: Finbarr McCarthy

( Sport )

... Ever since Cork fashioned a win of epic proportions over Clare, hurling fans everywhere have been eagerly awaiting this clash of the two teams that have dominated the championship in recent times, b...

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Written by: Graham Lynch

( Sport )

... Some of the biggest prizes in sport, including the Sam Maguire, Liam McCarthy, Heineken Cup and Magners League Trophy, were on display at UCC this week as the University welcomed back some of its pa...

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Written by: Graham Lynch

( Sport )

... The Sports Capitol Programme has announced funding totalling €4.485 million for 84 organisations in Cork, including soccer clubs, rugby clubs, athletics clubs, boxing clubs, rowing clubs, saili...

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Written by: Damien Richardson

( Sport )

... It has been an interesting week. Padraig Harrington's win at Royal Birkdale grabbed as much media coverage as French President Nicolas Sarkozy's important crisis summit in Dublin did, and the furthe...

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Written by: Eddie Goggin

( Sport )

... Hello punters:- The 1991 season began rather slowly for Frankie, with the withdrawal of the Aga Khan's patronage continuing to have a detrimental effect on racing in general, but on the Cumani yard...

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Written by: Damien Richardson

( Sport )

... The current financial predicament pertinent to some eircom League clubs can appear worrying on the surface. In fact it is nothing of the sort. The march into full-time professional football was neve...

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Written by: Eddie Goggin

( Sport )

... Hello punters! In doing this little cameo on the Italian Wizard of the saddle, Frankie Dettori, I was literally spoilt for choice, for the man's life, sporting and otherwise, was and is absolutely ...

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Written by: Damien Richardson

( Sport )

... Television is the travelling companion of all top class sport. However, the nature of television is not to provide sustanence and companionship for its fellow traveller, it is rather to utilise the ...

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Written by: Eddie Goggin

( Sport )

... Hello punters:- I do remember reading in an old book a time ago the saying that, "new things succeed as former things grow old", and, over the years, have found it to be a very apt description for ...

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Written by: Staff Reporter

( Sport )

... The Gala Senior and Intermediate championship continue this weekend and with three good victories over Dublin Wexford and Tipperary the Cork senior teams will be looking to build on these successes ...

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