Irish soccer manager Giovanni Trapattoni will have no easy task next summer when his squad of players head to the Uefa European Championships in Poland and Ukraine. Having attended the draw on 6 December in Kiev, it became clear the enormous task that
Ireland’s national soccer team will contest their sixth major tournament play-off when they face Estonia in the first of two legs in Tallinn on Friday 11 November, with the return leg in Dublin four days later. The massive prize for the winner will
A childhood dream was accomplished at the 2011 Wimbledon Championship when Novak Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal over four sets in the grand final.
Rory McIlroy extinguished any doubts about his frame of mind following his disastrous final round at the Masters by smashing records on his way to victory at the US Open at Congressional in Maryland.
April sets the scene for the first of four majors on the golfing calendar, when the 75th US Masters gets underway at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia.
Francesc ‘Cesc’ Fabregas could finish as one of the top players at this summer’s World Cup in South Africa – provided he’s fit to play.
When North Korea – who play international soccer as Korea DPR – qualified for their first and only World Cup appearance in 1966, they made quite an impact in spite of being given very little hope of success. Forty-four years on, and public opinion
The Champions League and Heineken Cup finals may have had all the attention last weekend, but the annual sports festival for adults with intellectual disabilities took pride of place in the hearts of everyone at Ballybough Community Centre.
Only a few short weeks ago, Brazil regained the top spot in the Fifa World Rankings, ousting Spain from their five-month reign.
South Africa’s national football association did not become a member of Fifa until 1992 – when the last vestiges of the apartheid regime were finally being swept away. Consequently they haven’t had as much experience as others on the international