That didn’t take long

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“Up and down like a fiddler’s elbow”

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That is just showing off

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We’re spoiling you

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Tough couple of days for Shane Ross. The Minister for Transport, Tourism (and Sport) went all the Rio de Janeiro to have a showdown with Pat Hickey, only to suffer the same fate as many of his predecessors when the (currently suspended) president of the Irish Olympic Council “put him back in his box”. Then Ross […]

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Watching your brother run the race of his life in an Olympic final is special. Doing so with the insight that goes with being a top-class athlete yourself makes it even more special. And it was all this emotion coursing through her veins that Jessie Barr was asked to make sense of her younger sibling Thomas’s […]

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“Fourth place is the WORST place to finish!” That is what Thomas Barr learned from his phenomenal Olympic journey, which saw him finish five-hundredths of a second away from a bronze medal as he set his second Irish 400 metres record in three days with a time of 47.97 in the Olympic final on Thursday. Interviewed […]

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What an effort

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Compared to Ireland, Team GB are having a spectacular Rio Olympics. Compared to most countries, Team GB are having a spectacular Olympics as they are currently an historic second in the medal table. Compared to Ireland, this guy is having a tremendous Olympics. Hate it when this happens pic.twitter.com/YPn3WiROso — SportsJOE (@SportsJOEdotie) August 16, 2016 Silver […]

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Anyone think he might rather be playing computer games? Nick Kyrgios doesn’t always seem to enjoy his tennis. In fact he rarely seems to enjoy his tennis. He does seem to enjoy certain darker elements of the game – like messing with an opponent’s head by telling him about his girlfriend’s former lovers. Supremely talented […]

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The Fourth Estate strikes back

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This is what happens when you meddle with the natural order of things. Did no one explain the risk of deciding in advance an inferior fighter was to advance to the semi-final of an Olympic boxing tournament? What if he was not good enough to make the last four of his division? What if forcing him through […]

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Someone call Jonathan Woodgate

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Boy, were those hotel pillows comfortable last night. Five-star comfortable. Once you took the complimentary mint off them. Won’t make that mistake again, no sirree, no more chocolate hair for me. Who is fighting here? Other than the Russian, obviously. I know all about Vladimir Nikitin, reckon he could go all the way. Shit! I didn’t […]

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Pretty remarkable

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The company at the centre of the Irish Olympic ticketing scandal have hit out at the Brazilian police for dealing with “extremely serious allegations through the media”. Arrest warrants have been issued for three of the directors of PRO 10’s parent company Kmepro Limited on a day of drama in Rio de Janeiro. Michael Glynn, Ken Murray and […]

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The police in Brazil do not mess about, and neither do their media. At almost the same moment four detectives from their fraud squad were giving a press conference detailing the circumstances of Pat Hickey’s arrest, a video of his actual arrest was published by ESPN Brazil. The head of the Irish and European Olympic […]

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Rio police claim there have been email exchanges between Pat Hickey and Ipswich Town owner Marcus Evans during the Olympics. The English businessman is the owner of corporate hospitality company THG, who Hickey earlier this week claimed the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) had cut ties with after London 2012. THG had been the OCI’s authorised […]

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It’s Kilkenny v Tipperary for a fifth All-Ireland final in eight years, but that doesn’t tell half the story. The Cats are returning to Croker on the first Sunday in September in search of a three-in-a-row but only after a fascinating and nail-biting replay victory over Waterford in Thurles on Saturday. They will meet their […]

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“Nobody can tell me that this fight Katie lost. Then I have no experience and I don’t know boxing.” Ireland’s head boxing coach Zaur Antia knows boxing, but he has probably never known a boxing competition like this Olympic Games. Michael Conlan is the only Irish boxer still in contention for a medal following Monday’s shock defeat […]

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Great news for the next Leicester City-style English Cinderella story – not so good for the likes of Celtic and Dundalk. It appears Uefa are on the verge of guaranteeing the powerful Big Four leagues 16 spots in the group stages of the Champions League. That means that HALF of the 32 spots will be […]

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The Thurles man was exceptional again against Galway

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It wasn’t just the prize,it wasn’t just the opponent – the manner of it mattered as much to Michael Ryan as anything. Tipperary will face old foes Kilkenny in the All-Ireland final on September 4th after beating Galway in a nervy semi-final – coming out on the right side of a one-point margin against the […]

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Hurling is going through a bit of a goal drought, so credit where it is due – this brilliant Tipperary minor team are providing some relief. Their 7-12 to 2-12 dismantling on Galway in the Electric Ireland All-Ireland minor semi-final was no freak occurrence, however, as Tipperary as a county seem to be bucking the […]

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Baller

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There was a point at which British Sevens fans should have got worried. They were impressive in their semi-final win over South Africa and had every right to come into the gold medal match against Fiji with a degree of confidence. Okay, Fiji are the off-loading, hard-running, side-stepping kings of broken field rugby and, therefore, built […]

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Dan Shanahan reveals the awkward conversation he had to have with his brother Maurice last week

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This is just taking the piss. Kenyan athletics coach John Anzrah has been sent home from the Olympics in disgrace after it was discovered he masqueraded as one of his athletes for a drug test. Ferguson Rotich, who beat world record holder David Rudisha at the Kenyan trials this year, was selected for a random drug […]

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Fastest field sport in the world, don’t you know? They’re all amateurs, sure they are. Would you believe they only started wearing helmets recently, health and safety gone mad. If there is one thing Irish people love more than hurling, it is explaining hurling to foreigners. If you haven’t dragged a foreign exchange student to a […]

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Let’s not forget England! Yep, since taking his finger off the giant iPad Gary Neville has had a tough time of it – losing his job (and 11 of 28 games) at Valencia before going down with the good ship Hodgson after the unfortunate tragic cataclysmic biblically bad England showing at Euro 2016. However, show us a manager […]

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Sean Cavanagh called it the most disappointing moment of his career, Aidan O’Shea smiles through it and Diarmuid Connolly seems to struggle with it. Sledging, goading, instigation, incitement – call it what you will – but after last weekend’s quarter-final weekend, it has become a major talking point in Gaelic football. SportsJOE GAA editor Colm Parkinson […]

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In the last All-Ireland semi-final before the arrival of Brian Cody, known in the hurling bible as 1BC, Kilkenny scraped past Waterford by a point back in 1998. A wonderful Waterford team featuring the likes of Peter Queally, Paul Flynn, Dan Shanahan and Tony Browne were eventually undone by the freak occurrence of a mishit DJ Carey […]

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That warm fuzzy feeling did not last very long. Barely a week has passed since Tipperary made history with their dismantling of Galway in an All-Ireland football quarter-final but already the true worth of that achievement to the powers-that-be in Tipperary GAA is becoming clear. That value? Not a lot. Not enough to postpone the quarter-final stages […]

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First the Manchester United laundry ladies and now the Uefa website – it seems nobody wants to let clubs have their bells and whistles transfer announcements anymore. Entering the final weeks of the transfer window fans of all clubs (particularly Arsenal) are desperate for news of players joining – players that can make a difference, […]

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We have some top-class hurling analysis for you, if you’re ready. Some of you may still be curled up in a foetal position after that humdinger of a hurling semi-final on Sunday, but if you are ready to relive it in the company of 10 Hurling All-Star awards, plus Colm Parkinson and Mikey Stafford. Kilkenny’s […]

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Just another average weekend in what is turning out to be a superb Gaelic football season. Mayo sticking it to the begrudgers, Dublin making light of finishing with 13 men, Donegal scoring a goal for the ages and referees struggling to deal with a few flare ups as a packed Croke Park rocked on Saturday […]

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One of Ireland’s greatest medal hopes has been defeated. Ireland boxing captain and flag-bearer was defeated in the last-16 of the 49kg boxing tournament at the Rio 2016 by Spain’s Samuel Carmona Heredia. The great and good of the fight game were proud of the Belfast boxer’s brave performance in a stand-up war. Robot Wars […]

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At this rate Michael Phelps is going to have to move into Fort Knox. The American swimming phenomenon last night won his 19th (NINETEENTH) gold medal as the United States fought back to claim the 4×100 metres freestyle relay. Swimming the second leg, the 31-year-old performed a magnificent turn to take the lead from France. […]

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You don’t easily rattle Brian Cody. In 82 Championship matches he has seen it all, including 11 All-Ireland titles, 15 Leinsters and a hell of a lot of come-from-behind victories. Paul Murphy’s last gasp wide saw him fall just short of the win in Croke Park on Sunday, as Kilkenny drew 1-21 to 0-24 with Waterford to set […]

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You’ll kill off Bobby Ewing before you get rid of this Kilkenny team. Stephen O’Keeffe had spent the afternoon adding to the meagre number of spectators at Croke Park when Waterford led by three points in the final minute of normal time. The Waterford keeper had enjoyed a fairly quiet existence until the Cats realised they were on […]

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Who saw this coming? After a chastening Munster final defeat to Tipperary few expected Limerick to put in a performance like this against the Leinster champions. Their comfortable win over Wexford in the All-Ireland quarter-final did little to convince that they could put in a performance like this but Limerick blew Dublin away in the […]

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The National Hunt community in Ireland is a tight knit one. So when news broke this morning of the death of JT McNamara it was clear some tribute would be paid to the former jockey, who was paralysed in a fall at Cheltenham in 2013. The 41-year-old Limerick native was a very popular man and his family […]

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With 16 minutes to go in the Allianz League final Kerry were trailing Dublin by a point. Aidan O’Mahony had been sent off nine minutes earlier but the Kingdom were managing to stay with their four-in-a-row chasing opponents. Less than 20 minutes later Éamonn Fitzmaurice’s side were absorbing an 11-point defeat, late goals from Paul Flynn […]

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First off, ouch! Secondly, fair play. When Austin Gleeson returned to the field of play in Thurles on Sunday wearing number 32 we assumed he had spilled some blood on his usual number six jersey. Having returned to the field after only five minutes we also assumed it was nothing serious. How wrong we were! A […]

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Joe Canning has no interest in extending Galway hurling’s feud with Ger Loughnane, nor is he willing to simply forget what the Sunday Game pundit said. Speaking exclusively to The GAA Hour Hurling Show, the Galway talisman admits that the former Clare and Galway manager’s criticism was hurtful and he did use it as motivation heading into Sunday’s […]

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And then there were four. The GAA Hour Hurling Show returns to reflect on the All-Ireland quarter-finals, which saw Waterford swat Wexford aside and Galway overpower Clare. Wooly is joined by JJ Delaney and Mikey Stafford in the studio, with Damien Hayes on the line, as they assess Waterford’s chances of getting one over on Kilkenny, Galway’s […]

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Licking his lips

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Sticking it to them

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On Wednesday Liam Dunne told SportsJOE it “wasn’t looking good” for James Breen. The corner-back had played a stormer against Cork as Wexford ended their 60-year wait for a win over the Rebels, doing an excellent job of marshalling Cork dangerman Alan Cadogan. The Adamstown clubman’s performance was all the more remarkable for the fact […]

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“John was always a phenomenal athlete, so he was. He had legs like tree trunks, so he had.” Nobody is in any doubt about the rugby talents of Connacht’s PRO12 winning captain John Muldoon. Brave as a lion, strong as an ox and as proud as, as… an animal that’s proud – the Galway native […]

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