IF TROY PARROTT thinks he is a million miles away from Tottenham Hotspur and the Premier League during his latest loan spell, that is because Excelsior Rotterdam probably feels like it is. A dramatic weekend in Dutch football also highlights the stark contrasts within the Eredivisie. On Saturday, the Republic […]
IRISH DEFENDER Liam Scales made his second start of the season, as Celtic beat Rangers 1-0 today at Ibrox. Kyogo Furuhashi scored the game’s only goal in first-half stoppage time, while the 25-year-old former Shamrock Rovers player made his second start of the season, also featuring in last week’s 0-0 […]
VERA PAUW’S REIGN as Republic of Ireland Women’s National Team manager has come to an end. The FAI decided against a new contract for the history-making Dutch coach after a marathon board meeting last night. FAI Head of Women’s Football Eileen Gleeson will oversee the historic Nations League opener against […]
SOUTHAMPTON SEEMED TO be the ideal kind of club for Gavin Bazunu when he joined permanently from Manchester City last summer. They had just completed their 10th season in the Premier League. Successive 15th-place finishes, on the back of 11th and 16th, hardly set the world alight yet you imagine […]
Shamrock Rovers 0 Europa Conference League second round qualifier MacDara Ferris reports from Budapest JUST THE SAME as last season, Shamrock Rovers suffered a heavy 4-0 defeat at the hands of Ferencvaros in the first leg of a European tie in Budapest. It was another chastening defeat for Rovers away […]
N.B. For the purposes of concision, we’ve restricted this list to players who have been in and around the Irish squad in recent times. Each player is also judged according to their level, so a League One player who scores higher than a Premier League star does not necessarily make […]
THE SCALE OF the task facing the Irish U17s tonight is huge, but it is dwarfed by the very achievement of facing it. Ireland face Spain tonight [KO: 7pm; Live on RTE News Channel and Player] in the quarter-finals of the U17 European Championships in Hungary with more than just […]
24 AUGUST 2021 was a momentous day in the footballing life of two Irish teenagers. In the 68th minute of an FA Cup match away to Cardiff, a 17-year-old Andrew Moran was introduced off the bench for his Brighton debut. Some 13 minutes later, Evan Ferguson — younger than Moran […]
SHAMROCK ROVERS MANAGER Stephen Bradley has called for lifetime bans for a number of Cork City fans who chanted about his sick son following the Leesiders’ 1-0 victory over eight-man Rovers at Turner’s Cross on Friday night, and says he intends to file a garda report on the incident. Cork […]
THE REPUBLIC OF Ireland’s preparations for their first-ever Women’s World Cup appearance could been thrown into disarray amidst a simmering club v country row. Some European clubs may not release their players until 10 days before the tournament — which begins on 20 July in Australia and New Zealand — […]
