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Oct 8, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Sean Meehan |W. Richard Staines |Michelle V. Faerman
1 INTRODUCTION At a given moment, the central nervous system (CNS) processes an abundance of incoming (afferent) sensory information from the environment. To prevent higher cortical areas of the brain from information overload, a sensory gating mechanism regulates the access of task-relevant and irrelevant information to higher levels of the CNS to optimize goal-based action performance (Cromwell et al., 2008).
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
mdpi.com | Sean Meehan |Emily Gonzalez |Kevin Park |Isabella Moceri
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May 22, 2024 | 
balls.ie | Gary Connaughton |Eoin Harrington |Rob O'Halloran |Sean Meehan
Bayer Leverkusen will face Atalanta in the Europa League final at the Aviva Stadium this evening, with Dublin set to host a first major European final since 2011. The two sides will face off at the Lansdowne Road venue (officially known as the 'Dublin Arena' in this competition for sponsorship reasons), with the German club hoping to continue what has been a remarkable campaign.
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May 22, 2024 | 
balls.ie | Gary Connaughton |Eoin Harrington |Finn Duffy |Sean Meehan
Gary Connaughton reporting from the Aviva StadiumOn a night where two of Europe's rising clubs attempted to make history, Dublin would play a starring role as Atalanta defeated Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 in the 2023/24 Europa League final. It was a game that the German club were expected to win, coming into the fixture on a 51-game unbeaten run and seeking to go the entire season undefeated in all competitions. However, Atalanta would flip that script.
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May 22, 2024 | 
balls.ie | Finn Duffy |Eoin Harrington |Gary Connaughton |Sean Meehan
With the European Championships set to get underway this summer in Germany, BBC and ITV have announced their punditry and commentary line-up for the tournament. BBC and ITV will be showing all 51 matches from the tournament between them, with both free-to-air channels due to broadcast the final simultaneously. For BBC, regular presenters and pundits Gary Lineker, Alex Scott, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards will be joined with a few new faces.
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May 22, 2024 | 
balls.ie | Eoin Harrington |Gary Connaughton |Sean Meehan |Finn Duffy
It's no secret that Roy Keane and Alex Ferguson's relationship is frosty at best. Keane was at Manchester United for seven of Ferguson's 13 Premier League-winning seasons and was captain for four of those campaigns, during a period of unprecedented success for the team. Their relationship soured, however, around the time of Keane's acrimonious departure. The pair have continued to trade thinly-veiled jabs at each other in the years since Keane left Old Trafford.
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Jan 6, 2024 | 
balls.ie | Colmán Stanley |Eoin Harrington |Sean Meehan
Ireland striker Sinclair Armstrong scored one of the goals of the day, as he opened the scoring for QPR in their FA Cup clash with Bournemouth. The 20-year-old Dubliner already has a cap for the senior Ireland team, and has been a star for a strong U21s side in recent months. Unfortunately QPR would lose out 2-3, after going 2-0 ahead in the first-half, but the nature of the goal showed some of the skills that have been missing for Ireland over the past few years.
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Jan 6, 2024 | 
balls.ie | Eoin Harrington |Colmán Stanley |Sean Meehan |PJ browne
Roy Keane described Sunderland's play in the second half of Saturday's Tyne-Wear derby as "madness," as the club he formerly managed fell to a 3-0 home defeat to Newcastle. 2015-16 was the last time both Sunderland and Newcastle played in the same division of English football so when the FA Cup draw pitted the two bitter rivals against each other, both fanbases were buzzing for their reunion.
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Jan 6, 2024 | 
balls.ie | Eoin Harrington |Colmán Stanley |Sean Meehan |PJ browne
England have established themselves as one of the best teams in Europe in recent years, but the long wait for a trophy since 1966 continues. There have been near misses down through the years but, after successive quarter-final defeats to Portugal in EURO 2004 and the 2006 World Cup, a particularly wretched barren period was ahead of England.
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Jan 6, 2024 | 
balls.ie | Eoin Harrington |Ian Fortune |Colmán Stanley |Sean Meehan
The curious case of Timo Werner's spell at Chelsea ultimately saw the German join the string of strikers who have failed at Stamford Bridge in recent years. Werner signed for the Blues from RB Leipzig in the summer of 2020 but could only manage ten Premier League goals in two seasons, as he struggled to make his mark under first Frank Lampard and then Thomas Tuchel.
