Robert Carry catches up with Luke O’Callaghan, Irish rugby player and super-fan, whose love of the sport has taken him to some incredible places
Brendan Treanor, senior team manager at the Monaghan-based club Truagh Gaels, is part of a club with a real sense of community, despite the pressures of competition.
Each week sports reporter ROBERT CARRY tries out martial arts from around the world. This week it’s the Filipino art of Eskrima
World and back-to-back European lightweight champion Katie Taylor believes that the three -day international training camp, which concluded at Dublin’s National Stadium last Saturday, was ideal preparation for this month’s Witch Cup and the European Championships.
One of the famed McDonald boys who lined out for Virginia’s Ramor United in the 1970s and also found success at county level, Kevin McDonald is now manager at another Cavan institution, Denn GFC.
Each week sports reporter ROBERT CARRY tries out martial arts from around the world. This week it’s the Japanese art of Kendo
The second annual Beach Volleyball Festival competition – held recently in Bray, Co Wicklow – was dominated by visitors, with non-Irish players appearing in all the major tournament finals.
JIM WALSH is hoping that the Irish Amateur Boxing Asso-ciation (IABA) can beat Sunderland boss Roy Keane to the punch for the Philips Manager of the Year Award for 2007. The Irish team manager for last month’s European Union Boxing Championships at Dublin’s National Stadium became the second Munster man on the trot – after the Black Cats boss, a former amateur boxer himself at Brian Dillon’s club in Cork (and who retired undefeated after three fights) – to be named Philips Manager of the Month for June, when he was presented with the award at the Hilton Hotel in Limerick.
It has been rumoured that Basketball Ireland’s intercultural Summer Jam event is to have some high-profile visitors along to watch the action – and a number of NBA stars’ names are in the hat.
PATRICIA CLANCY is secretary of Leitrim club Glen-car Manorhamilton – a burgeoning set-up that is quickly running out of space.
Each week sports reporter ROBERT CARRY tries out martial arts from around the world. This week it’s the Japanese code of Ninjutsu
Better late than never, they say – unbeaten Irish middleweight John Duddy racked up the 21st victory of his career versus Italian journeyman Alessio Furlan at a packed National Stadium in Dublin last Saturday night.
Wesley Charles has certainly come a long way in his soccer career. He speaks to Robert Carry about his rise from a poor upbringing in the Caribbean to his current role as captain of Galway United
John Keegan, PRO with Clontarf GAA Club in north Dublin, has been involved with Gaelic Games almost all his life – even as far afield as sunny California. Robert Carry reports
Each week sports reporter ROBERT CARRY tries out martial arts from around the world. This week it’s the Japanese art of Aikido
Peter O’Reilly, captain of the senior hurling team at Patrickswell GAA, is part of a club that has made an impressive name for itself in the annals of national competition.
Top American coach Don Turner believes that unbeaten Irish middleweight John Duddy has the guts to go all the way to the top. However, Turner admits that the Derryman’s defence is an area he must work on ahead of his 21st professional fight in Dublin this weekend.
Basketball players are wanted for a new mixed tournament kicking off this summer, which will see heats played all over the country in aid of helping integration.