‘It’s an amazing story’ – A first senior championship start for Clare hurlers at the age of 30
IN THE 50th minute of Sunday afternoon’s game, Páidí Fitzpatrick was summoned to the sideline at Semple Stadium. The Clare defender gestured with his fist as he ran off, saluting David McInerney who was coming on as a replacement. The message was clear. He had put in a huge shift to help establish a winning…
Mayo duo and Cavan star the latest of Irish contingent to have new AFLW deals confirmed
MORE IRISH PLAYERS have earned new Australian Football League Women’s [AFLW] contracts as the focus switches to next season. Mayo and Cavan stars Sarah Rowe and Aishling Sheridan have committed their immediate future to Collingwood, putting pen to paper in recent days. Yesterday, Rowe was one of six players to have a new deal announced,…
Here are the 2021 Cork senior club football and hurling championship draws
REIGNING CORK SENIOR hurling kingpins Blackrock will take on last year’s semi-finalists Erins Own after this evening’s draw for the 2021 club championships in the county. On the day that adult club players received the green light to resume training in pods of 15 from Monday 10 May and can play games from Monday 7…
Zola is a slick, seedy Florida odyssey
Early on in Zola, the stylish and glitzy new movie adapted from a viral 2015 tweetstorm by A’Ziah “Zola” King, our heroine falls in love. Zola (Taylour Paige) is a waitress at the kind of chain restaurant that makes all its waitresses wear miniskirts; she also moonlights as a stripper. She marches through the world…
In Kazuo Ishiguro’s sweet new novel Klara and the Sun, a robot befriends a teenage girl
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro’s new book and his first novel since he won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2017, is a spare and tender exploration of what it means to be made redundant, to exist in a world that believes itself to have moved past a need for you. Which is perhaps…
How 70 years of cop shows taught us to valorize the police
In 2019, polls found that the police were one of the most trusted public institutions in America, more trustworthy than Congress or journalists or religious leaders. But in 2020, after George Floyd died at the hands of police and wave of protests against police brutality spread across the US, police drove their vans into crowds…
The Last Duel is a medieval epic about believing women, and it’s a mess
Unlike with other misfires of its magnitude, I can at least see what The Last Duel was aiming for. The historical epic, based on a true 14th-century event and directed by Ridley Scott, is a competently made, action-packed film full of lush feasts and bloody sword fights. What’s more, it taps into the zeitgeist —…
Erling Haaland’s release clause expiry date revealed as Man City rush to land Dortmund superstar in bargain transfer
ERLING HAALAND’S future is set to be finalised by the end of next month – with Manchester City currently leading the race to sign him. Reports in Germany say the Borussia Dortmund striker’s £64million release clause must be activated by April 30. That means all clubs bidding to sign him must register their intention by…
Robert Lewandowski ‘wants to leave Bayern Munich with Erling Haaland lined up as superstar’s replacement’
ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI is keen to leave Bayern Munich in the summer, according to reports. Lewandowski, 33, became a fan favourite when he arrived at the club in 2014. He has scored an impressive 337 goals in 365 games for the Reds, and many have labelled him as the best striker in the world. Click Here:…
Man Utd should sign ‘no-nonsense’ Chelsea defender Antonio Rudiger to challenge Harry Maguire, says Gary Pallister
MANCHESTER UNITED have been urged to ditch Harry Maguire from their starting XI and replace him with ‘no-nonsense’ Antonio Rudiger. That’s according to former Red Devils defender Gary Pallister, who reckons the Chelsea star would be an upgrade on Maguire. However, he adds that the United skipper should NOT be sold, with the hope that…