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1 week ago | 
irishnews.com | Kenny Archer
The British & Irish Lions has announced Patron Saint as its official whisky supplier, with the Scottish brand crafting a blend incorporating liquid from all four countries. Patron Saint’s 1888 whiskey, a groundbreaking, luxury blend named after the year the Lions were founded, has been meticulously crafted to unify distinct flavours from the four Unions the British & Irish Lions represent.
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1 week ago | 
irishnews.com | Kenny Archer
A COUNTY Antrim primary school rugby team will represent Ulster in a ‘once-in-a lifetime’ training session with the British and Irish Lions this week. The children of Moorfields PS, near Ballymena, will travel to Dublin to meet and train with the Lions on Friday before their friendly match against Argentina at The Aviva Stadium that evening. A few weeks ago, Moorfields PS rugby team played in a local schools tournament.
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1 week ago | 
irishnews.com | Kenny Archer
IF your glass wasn’t half-full, indeed running over, filled with whatever your poison is after this enthralling encounter then you may as well give up watching sport and take up crocheting. Armagh had nothing to play for – but played as if their lives depended on not losing. Galway didn’t need to win, as it turned out, but battled back from an eight-point half-time deficit – and scoring just one point from two penalties – to inflict a first loss in ’70 minutes’ on Armagh for more than two years.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishnews.com | Kenny Archer
HIS hero may have been Steven Gerrard, but Isaac Price is more of a Michael Owen for Northern Ireland – although David Healy may be a better comparison. The West Bromwich Albion player is already one-quarter of the way towards equalling Healy’s 36-goal tally on the senior international stage - at the tender age of 21. His superb winner against Iceland on Tuesday night brought his recent tally to seven goals in his last seven NI games, and nine in total from 22 appearances.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishnews.com | Kenny Archer
THE patience Ronan Hale needed while waiting to switch international allegiance, and then to make his Northern Ireland debut, will be required again, he realises. The game of inches continued for the 26-year-old Tuesday night against Iceland, but having finally made his long-awaited Northern Ireland debut he’s setting his sights on taking bigger steps now.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishnews.com | Kenny Archer
WHISKEY and fire may not be the most sensible combination but one major Irish whiskey brand is giving major backing to fire-fighters. Proper No. Twelve Irish Whiskey might best be considered a ‘re-brand’: the name remains the same, but the ownership has changed from its previous toxic association (Google it yourself). The whiskey itself is genuinely Irish ,a blend of triple-distilled malt and grain whiskey, made at ‘the world’s oldest licensed whiskey distillery’ – you know the one.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishnews.com | Kenny Archer
AS with comedy, the secret of a great sporting championship is timing. As with comedy, sometimes some don’t find matters funny, instead feeling that the joke is on them. The All-Ireland senior football championship is very good, very enjoyable again this year, thanks in no small part to the new rules brought in by the Football Review Committee. But – with me being the Sir Mix-a-Lot of columnists, you knew there was going to be a ‘but’, and a big one at that – it remains a flawed format. Why?
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2 weeks ago | 
irishnews.com | Kenny Archer
IT’S exactly two years since Isaac Price left Everton to sign for Belgian big guns Standard Liege – but he still has a desire to outdo a former Merseyside rival. One Liverpool player in particular, that is – his Northern Ireland international colleague Conor Bradley. The Tyrone lad became the first player from NI to win an English Premier League medal since Jonny Evans collected his third with Manchester United in 2013.
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2 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Kenny Archer
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2 weeks ago | 
irishnews.com | Kenny Archer
A FORMER GAA Ambassador has thanked an Irish government minister for expressing support for the Irish Muslim community after protests surrounding an Eid al-Adha event at Croke Park on Saturday. Abdullah Al Jumaili initially posted on social media about his upset at “Protests from individuals claiming that Muslims don’t belong there, that Croke Park is only for one faith, one background, one type of Irishness.“Let me say this clearly: That is not the Ireland we are building.
