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With Matchday 2 of the 2026 World Cup now underway, Mark Lynch runs us through four key questions that will be answered over the next 24 hours of Group D football. Group D probably brought us two surprise results on Matchday One. One for the size of victory and the...
With Matchday 2 of the 2026 World Cup now underway, Mark Lynch runs us through four key questions that will be answered over the next 24 hours of Group C football. Soak it in Scotland fans- the next week might not bring as much joy. Yes our neighbours to the North...
With Matchday 2 of the 2026 World Cup kicking off this afternoon, Mark Lynch runs us through four key questions that will be answered over the next 24 hours of Group B football. It's been so far so Group F Italia 90' for these four teams. Two one all draws keeps...
With Matchday 2 of the 2026 World Cup kicking off this afternoon, Mark Lynch runs us through four key questions that will be answered over the next 24 hours of Group A football. We are off and running. The 2026 Fifa World Cup is here and last week we saw an opening...
As we now sit less than 17 days from the biggest game in Irish football in a long, long time, I thought it was time to pick up my pen or more accurately, my keyboard and get some thoughts down ahead of it. The closer the game gets, the harder it is to get it off my...
Heimir Hallgrímsson is in desperate search of a defensive midfielder after Josh Cullen suffered an ACL tear in late December. Many names have been thrown into consideration, but who should be lining out for Ireland in March? Cullen started five of...
Two points dropped or one point gained. When the ref blew the final whistle on Saturday night, I wasn’t quite sure. Having had time to digest Ireland’s opener over the last 48 hours, I still can’t decide. Football evolves and changes all the time; however, certain...
Halloween is still over seven weeks away, but at half-time on Saturday evening RTÉ’s Ritchie Sadlier observed that “a horror show” had been unfolding on the pitch. The ghost of the 2002 World Cup Qualifying campaign had teased us all this week, and the slow...
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Credit: © BPI / Michael Zemanek 1. World Cup 1966 - Spain 1-0 Ireland, Paris Ireland’s first involvement in play offs was a one-off game in Paris in November 1965. Ireland and Spain were the only two teams in a qualifying group. After a 1-0 win at Dalymount Park,...
A wise person once told me that sport is a microcosm of society. This means that everything that makes up a society-history, values, culture, demographics of the people within that society, etc.- also make up the sporting fabric of that same society. To be...
Following a recruitment process that began over a month before Christmas 2023, the Republic of Ireland have announced former Höttur (women), IBV (both men and women), Iceland, Al-Arabi and Jamaica manager (as well as qualified dentist) Heimir Hallgrímsson as their new...
World Cup should be an extreme eye opener for Stephen Kenny who can learn a lot from two teams in particular The usual football withdrawals that occur after a World Cup have been quickly quashed with the swift return of the club game but the itch for Ireland lingered...