Posts Tagged ‘identity’

Say goodbye to Kildare County, who just about succeeded in fulfilling their last fixture on Saturday. And say hello to more trouble in store down the line, as, insanely, Galway gets a third team in the league.

It’s heart-warming to read, courtesy of the Irish Independent, that LA Galaxy are recovering from their injection of celebrity culture. It vaguely calls to mind that great story of the  Skibbereen Eagle keeping its eye on the Russian Tzar.

As they say in all the best tabloids… it’s official. There is ‘no league in Ireland’.

Derry fans have shown sense and voted with their feet and their wallets not to bother with a sham friendly against Celtic FC, one of the most over-rated outfits in these islands. Fair dues to them.

How many pages did your Sunday splurge on the event in Croke Park today? And how much did it give to Irish football? The Sindo surely swooned as much as any about the GAA All-Ireland final, but, embedded in the sports sections, amidst all the padding, the professional fervour and the hype, is this pure [...]

What are we like? Out at Higher Options at the RDS and had to laugh at the University of Sunderland stand, replete with a signed Black Cats jersey. That’s right. One of those all the rage two years  back but now nigh impossible to offload in a car boot sale. Straight out of the Niall [...]

We’re used at this stage to fans of British clubs outnumbering Irish football supporters at summer friendlies, but having a similar scenario with a Romanian team playing in a proper game definitely is something new.