Sports
RACING: Expats are golden on Calif. grass
Irish expats of the four-legged variety continue to thrive in southern California stakes races. Gold Phoenix took Saturday’s Grade 1 Kilroe Mile at...
March 08, 2023
by John Manley
Sports
COLLEGE: 2 Irish winners at Big East meet
Villanova’s Charlie O’Donovan and Butler’s Barry Keane won individual events at the Big East Conference’s Indoor Track & Field Championships in Chi...
March 08, 2023
by John Manley
McIlroy is 'rounding into form'
Bay Hill, site of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, is widely considered the toughest non-major course on the PGA Tour schedule. Thus, it should come...
March 07, 2023
by John Manley
Derry defeat ailing Dublin with comeback 2nd-half performance
Derry 1-11; Dublin 0-13 They say you find out things about your team in the league and if that is the case Dublin manager Dessie Farrell must be we...
March 06, 2023
by P.J. Cunningham
Top-weight makes 3rd-time lucky tough ask for Any Second Now
Kildare-based racehorse trainer Ted Walsh says he was “absolutely shocked” after learning that his horse Any Second Now has been given joint top-we...
March 02, 2023
by Sean Creedon
Sports
COLLEGE: Rafferty leads DeSales to crown
Abigail Rafferty earned Most Valuable Player honors for leading DeSales to the championship of the Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom division in w...
March 01, 2023
by John Manley
Dublin's Graham rides longshot Confidence Game to victory
James Graham helped scramble the Triple Crown picture by riding longshot Confidence Game to victory in the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park in ...
February 28, 2023
by John Manley
Illness puts Dubliner O'Rourke out of 'Jersey City Fight Night'
The bug last week accomplished something no prizefighter has managed to do against Ryan O’Rourke – knock him out. The wiry Dubliner is off Saturday...
February 28, 2023
by Jay Mwamba
Limerick hurlers win in Galway; Mayo hammer Tyrone
Limerick's Kyle Hayes tackles Cianan Fahy of Galway in the game at Pearse Stadium. Inpho/Tom Maher
February 27, 2023
by P.J. Cunningham
Ireland overcome inventive, athletic Italy to go top
Italy 20; Ireland 34 If you play enough with fire, you will surely end up getting burnt. Ireland Head Coach Andy Farrell should remember that old d...
February 27, 2023
by P.J. Cunningham
Sports
RACING: Mischief afoot as Walsh nabs 2
Brendan Walsh sent out the winners of two stakes races on the Saturday card at Fair Grounds in New Orleans. First into the charmed circle after the...
February 22, 2023
by John Manley
Sports
Burns gets big Congress mandate
Last time around when he was expected to romp home as the 40th president of the GAA, Jarlath Burns was shocked when New York-based Larry McCarthy c...
February 22, 2023
by P.J. Cunningham