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…yeah, the name itself inspires some fear, irritation and many more feelings amongst us lot. It’s one of those countries up there with Israel, Liechtenstein and Macedonia, famed by the Irish for being the opposition on some of the darker recent nights in our qualifying history. Truth be told, our recent record against the Cypriots [...]

Hello again everyone, I’ve managed to get some time free from University over the next couple of weeks, and decided that this period was too important for Irish football to let slide by without at least a mention or two. So I’ll try and keep you informed about what’s going on over the next few [...]

Reports coming from everywhere online suggest that Ireland’s winger Aiden McGeady, who plays in Scotland with Celtic, is being tracked by Bayern Munich’s scouts. Ireland’s Italian manager Giovanni Trapattoni coached Bayern manager Jurgen Klinsmann at both Inter and Bayern in the past and has confirmed the rumours that the Bavarians are looking at the sprightly [...]

The term ‘by the skin of their teeth’ comes to mind before anything else.
Tonight’s match against Georgia was supposed to be a chance for the Irish national team to show that they’re real candidates for automatic qualification to South Africa 2010, as well as giving a wee pick me up to the people of our [...]

The Irish national team’s new stadium is well underway and nearing completion. Irish readers will know well about the new Lansdowne Road. Our old stadium, the original Lansdowne Road was home to some great moments in Irish sporting history from Shelbourne holding Deportivo La Coruna to a 0-0 draw in the Champions League 3rd Round [...]

I’ll keep this one short and sweet folks

One way of summing up the year ahead.

…not for me, all though in fairness, the infrequency with which I update this blog probably makes Daryl pull his hair out, apologies, one and all. I would promise to return to some type of regular posting, but I think we all know where those previous promises have gone…