Conor Neville

2 days ago | rte.ie | Conor Neville

A glorious new dawn for Rory McIlroy this week, who, for the first time in over a decade, enters a major championship not weighed down by the baggage of agonising near misses. Safe to say, McIlroy will never again play under the extreme stress which he had to withstand on that Sunday in Augusta. It showed on that notorious miscue on the 13th, when he skewed his doddle of a chip into Rae's Creek while the commentators were wittering on about how much of a cinch it was.

2 days ago | rte.ie | Conor Neville

Offaly's Mairead Teehan picked up her Player of the Month award for April after their victory in the Division 2A final but there was no getting away from the issue that has generated a blitz of headlines beyond the sports pages. The skorts v shorts saga has been picked up by news outlets all over the English-speaking world and has led to female parliamentarians donning shorts in Leinster House, ever since the Dublin-Kilkenny joint-protest in their Leinster championship clash 10 days ago.

5 days ago | rte.ie | Conor Neville

Before they were rudely interrupted. Meath and Louth meet again in the slightly delayed sequel of the 2010 Leinster final. It's more Godfather 3 than Godfather 2, this particular sequel. The protagonists from the last installment are greyer on top, several having embarked on political careers of varying degrees of success or else gone on to long careers in finance. The intervening years have been a long and bitter trial, a biblical style penance.

1 week ago | rte.ie | Conor Neville

28 August 2021. We're into late-stage Covid, a time of modest crowd restrictions at matches and gradually loosening pandemic protocols. Peter Keane trudges into the Croke Park media room to face the press after what would be his final game as Kerry manager. Kerry have just blown a glorious chance of reaching an All-Ireland final after conceding three goals against a Tyrone side who were supposed to be ravaged by the after-effects of a Covid outbreak.

1 week ago | rte.ie | Conor Neville

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