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By Kieran Rooney IRISH rugby coach Declan Kidney should be feeling pretty satisfied about how the season has started. Three of the four Irish provi...

By Kieran Rooney HALF an hour into last Sunday's All-Ireland Football Championship decider at Croke Park, and you had to be seriously concerned for...

By Kieran Rooney YET again the lack of creativity in the Republic of Ireland's soccer team's midfield has become an issue. It followed the 3-1 Euro...

By Kieran Rooney ALL week, the talk was that Lar Corbett was potentially Tipperary's equivalent of Henry Shefflin. But it's one thing getting such ...

By Kieran Rooney JUST as the Dublin supporters left Croke Park devastated the week previously, Kildare fans must still be pondering about how event...

By Kieran Rooney AT last, the pundits got it right in the knock-out stages of the All-Ireland Football Championship. But only just. Dublin had a pl...

By Kieran Rooney SUDDENLY we have a real final on our hands. Tipperary's 3-19 to 1-18 All-Ireland semi-final victory over Waterford at Croke Park l...

By Kieran Rooney PROBABLY the best team ever. That appears to be the generally accepted opinion following Kilkenny's 3-22 to 0-19 demolition of Cor...

By Kieran Rooney NOT everyone is going to agree but last weekend's All-Ireland Senior Football Championship quarter-finals had everything. Perhaps ...

By Kieran Rooney DEVASTATION. You could see it in Galway manager John McIntyre's face, you could feel the emotion in his voice as he tried to expla...

By Kieran Rooney letters@irishecho.com IT'S around this time that teams really begin to find out about themselves. Sligo and Monaghan have more, qu...

By Kieran Rooney IF you thought that the World Cup final was controversial, it had nothing on what happened at last Sunday's Leinster Football Cham...