Sports
Spoils shared in entertaining, sporting contest
In the opening junior game of the knock-out competition, both teams finished all square after a very a sporting contest. John McArdle had the openi...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
TV channel should be high on GAA agenda
I have a dream. I want to wake up in the morning and turn on the television and kill half an hour watching a Gaelic football match from the 1980s, ...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Huet, Sheehan score track victories
Stony Brook's Laura Huet won the women's 3,000 meters at Saturday's Rutgers Invitational in Piscataway, N.J. The senior from Carrickmines, Co. Dubl...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Moving target Adamek proves too fast for McBride
Kevin McBride was left pondering retirement after a lop-sided loss to fleet-footed Polish heavyweight Tomasz Adamek at the Prudential Center in New...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Rocks Over-30s go into short break unbeaten
Shamrock's unbeaten Over-30s go into a three-week break atop the Div. II log after a hard fought 2-2 tie with Manhattan Celtic in last Sunday's lat...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Derby duo come up short in Santa Anita
The Kentucky Derby picture has been thrown wide open with Uncle Mo's defeat in Saturday's Wood Memorial at Aqueduct. On the West Coast, neither Sil...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
United get by with a little help from their 'friends'
On March 1 Chelsea beat Manchester United 2-1 then 5 days later Liverpool followed up with an emphatic 3-1 victory over the Red Devils. But it's Un...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Congress needs to be reduced, extended: Duffy
We don't know how many candidates there were when Maurice Davin was elected the first GAA president in 1884, but next weekend will be the first tim...
April 15, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Cork will defend title in decider vs. Dublin
By Kieran Rooney IF Rory McIlroy experienced the ups and, sadly, the downs of sport at Augusta, then the same applied to the various teams looking ...
April 13, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Dublin footballers through to final, hurlers in uphill fight
By Kieran Rooney DUBLIN, somewhat remarkably, are in with a chance of contesting both the National Football League and the National Hurling League ...
April 06, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Irish move level with Russia, Slovakia after lackluster win
By Kieran Rooney [caption id="attachment_63782" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Shane Long of Ireland holds off Macedonia's Vance Sikov. I...
March 30, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Irish end campaign with emphatic win
By Kieran Rooney [caption id="attachment_63742" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Ireland's David Wallace is tackled by Chris Ashton and Tob...
March 23, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff