Sports
Hawkeye must tryout again
Good enough for FIFA, but not for the GAA. That’s the situation with the Hawk-Eye goal line technology. The GAA has been trialing Hawk-Eye this yea...
July 29, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Season is drawn out, with too few games
When they took on the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim up in the Bronx last Friday, the New York Yankees were playing their 86th Major League Baseball...
July 28, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Clarke reports for Open defense
Darren Clarke reported to Royal Lytham and St. Anne’s Golf Club in Lancashire, England on Monday morning to return the Claret Jug, emblematic of hi...
July 18, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Donaldson keeps it simple, wins 1st title at 36
The 255th time proved to be the charm for Jamie Donaldson, as the Welshman drew off to a 4-stroke victory in the Irish Open, which played to rave r...
July 05, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Meath stun Kildare, will face lucky Dublin in Leinster final
KILDARE, among others, have found that nothing can be taken for granted in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. The Lilywhites went down t...
July 05, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Sherlock recalls 'humiliating' racial abuse
Two members of Duffry Rovers club in Wexford were last week suspended for eight weeks after the referee reported alleged racist comments directed a...
July 05, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Clare’s Fitzgerald is boon to hurling
The rather excellent GAA website AnFearRua.com ran a poll the other day trying to gauge the popularity of the Clare hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald...
July 05, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Galway hurlers take control early on
In this senior hurling clash a powerful first half performance by Galway set them up for a well-deserved win over the perennial power house Offaly....
June 27, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Uruguayans are doing something right
It would be easy to write a column this week asking why the FAI’s head honcho is the only chief executive from the competing nations at the Europea...
June 27, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Cats demolish Dubs, while Tipp edge Cork in Munster
HURLING fans may well have another Kilkenny-Tipperary clash to look forward to in the All-Ireland final at Croke Park on September 9. The big quest...
June 27, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Harrington shares 11th in Connecticut
Sure, Padraig Harrington carded three bogeys en route to his 65 in Saturday’s third round of the Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands in C...
June 27, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Improved Ireland go down to 3rd defeat
Ireland wore white against Italy in Poznan on Monday night but they didn’t raise the white flag and put up a creditable performance before eventual...
June 21, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff