Results Croke Cup Semi-final St Joseph’s Tulla 1-11 St Kieran’s 3-16 Allianz Football League Division 3 Longford 0-14 Westmeath 0-10 Advertisement Fermanagh 3-15 Laois 3-9 *********************** IN TODAY’S REFIXED Allianz Football League games, there were wins in Division 3 for Longford and Fermanagh. Billy O’Loughlin’s Longford eased their relegation fears with a 0-15 to 0-10 win […]
Wexford 1-22 Offaly 2-12 Ronan Fagan reports from Chadwicks Wexford Park WEXFORD PRODUCED A late flourish to add to Offaly’s relegation worries after Saturday’s Allianz National Hurling League Division 1 duel at blustery Chadwicks Wexford Park. A 48th minute penalty goal from Luke O’Connor gave Offaly a fighting chance of a first victory in Group […]
THE PHONE CALL came out of the blue. A few days beforehand, Monica McGuirk had made the decision to take a break from one sport. This was at the start of 2018. An accomplished goalkeeper in the Women’s National League [WNL] at the time, she was stepping away from the top-flight of women’s soccer on […]
THE ALL-IRELAND CLUB camogie final is coming at a good time for Eoghan Rua forward, and Irish hockey international, Katie Mullan. Eoghan Rua’s Katie Mullan. If the season had been any longer, she might not have been able to keep committing to both teams. On the day she speaks to the media — one week […]
President Donald Trump seemed to have very different things to say about Covid-19 when he spoke in public — at press conferences and TV appearances — than when he spoke to journalist Bob Woodward one-on-one. In public comments, Trump took a tone that downplayed the coronavirus — making it seem like the virus would go […]
President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested that if you excluded blue states, America’s high number of Covid-19 deaths wouldn’t look bad compared to other countries. “If you take the blue states out, we’re at a level that I don’t think anybody in the world would be at,” he said at a White House press conference. […]
Pauline Binam, a 30-year-old former detainee at Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, had been in custody for about two years when she started having irregular menstrual bleeding. She feared that confinement was taking its toll on her body. Binam, who came to the US from Cameroon when she was 2 years old, was […]
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Several books on the Green New Deal have been released in the past year or two, but none boasts a more illustrious set of authors than Climate Crisis and the Green New Deal, out Tuesday from Robert […]
As America, and even his own administration, woke up to the threat of Covid-19, President Donald Trump still didn’t seem to get it. Within weeks of suggesting that people social distance in mid-March, the president went on national TV to argue that the US could reopen by Easter Sunday in April. “You’ll have packed churches […]
Imagine a dog. She spends her entire life in an iron crate so small that she cannot turn around. Her tail has been cut off so that other dogs in cages jammed up against hers won’t chew it off in distress. When she has puppies, the males are castrated without painkillers. They are left close […]