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The Sports Interview: Diamond in the rough

Last update: Thursday, October 4, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Robert Carry meets Ramon ‘The Diamond’ Dekkers, the Dutch fighting sensation who helped bring Muay Thai to the world’s attention – and shook Thailand’s fighting hierarchy to its core 

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FAI targets soccer-loving Travellers

Last update: Thursday, October 4, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has announced details of a soccer blitz aimed at getting youngsters from Dublin’s Travelling community more involved in the sport. 

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MARTIAL ARTS… for the uninitiated

Last update: Thursday, September 27, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Each week sports reporter ROBERT CARRY tries out martial arts from around the world. This week it’s the Malay fighting style, Silat 

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Around the Ring

Last update: Thursday, September 27, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 THE DOOR is still open for Cuba to compete in the World Senior Boxing Championships in Chicago next month, according to world amateur boxing chiefs at the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA). 

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Minority players could prove pivotal

Last update: Thursday, September 27, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Robert Carry takes a look at some of the players who look likely to make a lasting impression on the closing stages of this year’s Eircom League season 

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AGBONLAHOR READY FOR ENGLAND CALL-UP?

Last update: Thursday, September 27, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 ASTON VILLA star Gabriel Agbonlahor is hoping his recent performances have been good enough to earn him his first senior England call-up.

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MARTIAL ARTS… for the uninitiated

Last update: Thursday, September 20, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Each week sports reporter ROBERT CARRY tries out martial arts from around the world. This week it’s the French fighting art of Savate 

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Around the Ring

Last update: Thursday, September 20, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 A 13-man Irish senior boxing squad will jet out to France on Monday for their second last training camp before October’s World Championships in Chicago. 

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The Sports Interview: 'We really bring something special’

Last update: Thursday, September 20, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Robert Carry speaks with Richard Oyewole, head of the African Supporters Club, a group dedicated to encouraging Africans to take sports in Ireland – especially soccer – to their hearts 

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Hundreds take to the Liffey

Last update: Thursday, September 20, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

THE ANNUAL Liffey Swim last weekend attracted over 330 competitors, and non-Irish nationals were among them for the first time in the history of the race. 

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Ireland hosts Euro wheelchair basketball finals

Last update: Thursday, September 20, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Ireland is to play host to Division C of the European Wheelchair Basketball Champ-ionships this week, it has been announced.  

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Irish-Nigerian girl shines in cup defeat

Last update: Thursday, September 13, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 AN under-15 girls’ soccer cup final played out at Dublin’s AUL grounds last Sunday between St Francis and Stella Maris finished 3-1 to Stella Maris, and one of the many girls to shine was Irish-Nigerian Chinwendu Vine of St Francis. 

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Ski Club of Ireland calls immigrants to the slopes

Last update: Thursday, September 6, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 THE SKI Club of Ireland is to host an event aimed at getting immigrants to come along to the Republic’s only dry ski slope, in particular those who have skiing experience from their home countries. 

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Around the Ring

Last update: Thursday, September 6, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 THE IRISH A team are using one of Ireland’s most famous boxing clubs to prepare for a tournament against New York later this month. The Irish squad are being put through their paces at the Drimnagh BC in Dublin- home club of 1992 Olympic gold medallist Michael Carruth-ahead of their meeting with a New York Golden Glove selection in the Big Apple on 22 September.

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MARTIAL ARTS… for the uninitiated

Last update: Thursday, August 30, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Each week sports reporter ROBERT CARRY tries out martial arts from around the world. This week it’s amateur wrestling 

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The Sports Interview: Hoops and dreams

Last update: Thursday, August 30, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Professional basketballer Jolie McKeirnan talks to ROBERT CARRY about how the sport has driven her life and her struggle with red tape over her status as an Irish player 

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Gibson and the two Irelands

Last update: Thursday, August 30, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 STEPHEN FINN asks what does playing for the national squad mean in the context of a divided Ireland? DARRON Gibson may be simply a footballer but he has inadvertently become embroiled in a saga that has tested the wording of the Good Friday Agreement.  

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