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The likes of Silver Birch and Amberleigh House had proved their worth with a Becher win before going on to plunder the world-famous race in recent years, and Black Apalachi was in the process of running well when unseating his...

As an exercise in readying themselves for the world champions in Croke Park on Saturday this was useful enough night out for Ireland, if you can say that anything fits that category on an evening like this. We had been...

Humberside last week that counselling might be required for a group of young men returning from foreign fields. The three Irishmen who play for Hull City had not lost comrades but merely a football match, witnessing nothing more horrific than...

To the great sorrow of Irish soccer fans, the fat lady of their sport sang on Friday, dashing what little hope Ireland had left of reviving its vanquished World Cup dreams. On Friday, soccer's international governing body, FIFA, rejected Ireland's...

In the first three instances you would have found detailed descriptions of the goals that sent the winners to South Africa. In the case of France v Ireland, there is the following summary: "After 180 hard-fought minutes, the fate of...

France qualified for its fourth consecutive World Cup when officials missed an obvious hand ball by Thierry Henry that led to William Gallas' overtime goal in a 1-1 tie against Ireland on Wednesday night. WATCH: "Le Hand Of God" Handball...