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Football in Ireland

September 2021

  • The amazing world of sport
    'It's in!': Bohemians' Liam Burt scores from near halfway line 12 seconds into the half – video

    With Bohemians 3-0 down at half-time at Drogheda United, visiting midfielder Liam Burt, just inside the opposing half, looped an effort in spectacularly 12 seconds after the break to reduce the deficit

July 2021

  • The amazing world of sport
    'Absolutely unbelievable': goal from own half scored in 124th minute – video

    Former Liverpool player Glen McAuley completed his hat-trick with a stunning equaliser from inside his own half, bringing the game level at 4-4 at the end of extra time

February 2014

  • penalty foul

    Sportblog
    Ten of the worst penalty decisions ever

    Hannah Jane Parkinson: After Howard Webb denied Liverpool at Arsenal in the FA Cup, we look at 10 far more dubious penalty decisions

March 2013

  • Riots at Belfast soccer match

    Supporters of Dublin team Shamrock Rovers break into stand occupied by fans of Northern Irish team Linfield

May 2011

  • croke park in 1921

    Can the Queen win over Croke Park?

    There are few more hallowed corners of Ireland than Croke Park, home of Gaelic sport and the ground where British forces slaughtered 14 people in 1920. Yet next week the Queen will visit the stadium. Leading Irish writer Fintan O’Toole charts this remarkable turnaround

July 2010

  • Oscar Sibanda, a Zimbabwean asylum seeker and Shelbourne FC footballer

    Ireland footballer faces deportation after asylum seeker bid fails

    Oscar Sibanda, a Zimbabwean player for Shelbourne FC, fears persecution if he is forced to return to homeland

November 2009

  • John Delaney

    FAI chief executive John Delaney tells 'sad' Roy Keane to 'move on'

    John Delaney has responded to Roy Keane's vitriolic outburst by saying he found it 'very sad to see a great former player reflected in the manner as he did'

March 2009

  • Northern Ireland v Poland at Windsor Park

    Police study CCTV to identify football hooligans in Belfast clash

    More arrests are expected following the violent clashes between fans and riot police after Northern Ireland's qualifier with Poland

December 2008

  • Tony Cascarino

    Keane is finished as a manager, says critical Cascarino

    Former team-mate says Irishman will never be trusted with another job

August 2008

  • Sportblog
    United they stand

    Robin Lynch

    Irish champions Drogheda United's trip to Kyiv is the most remarkable chapter yet in a rags-to-riches tale

June 2008

  • All-star wedding for captain Keane

    International team captain Robbie Keane ties the knot with his long-term girlfriend, model Claudine Palmer

February 2008

  • Giovanni Trapattoni for readers' gallery

    The gallery
    Giovanni Trapattoni

    Guinness? Check. Leprechauns? Check. Papa Smurf? But, of course! Your Giovanni Trapattoni efforts ticked all our boxes.

October 2003

  • Coup puts Cliftonville in a new league

    Fans take over to save Ireland's oldest soccer club from financial ruin and become the youngest board in the UK.

August 2003

  • Fans insist on right to boo Rangers' foreign stars

    Celtic football club are coming under increasing pressure to act against supporters behind a website defending the 'right' of Irish fans to boo Rangers players at international matches in Dublin.

February 2003

  • Heroes and villains

    Henry McDonald

    Henry McDonald: McCarthy, not Keane, deserves our gratitude.

December 2002

  • Sporting life in Bertie's Ireland

  • Up close and personal

    Ian Whittell

November 2002

  • Keane 0, McCarthy 1

    Henry McDonald

    Henry McDonald: We are too eager to condemn our heroes and elevate our villains.

October 2002

  • Irish soccer's offside

    Henry McDonald
  • Amy Lawrence

    'Poisoned' Irish

    Amy Lawrence
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