The annual colours match between Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin was due to take place yesterday. The match was postponed, not because of Covid-19 restrictions but because of supermarket panic buying. As a result there simply wasn t enough flour, eggs and cabbages to be had so that they could be thrown liberally about the terraces.
Larry Ryan s biggest winners and losers of 2020
Including save of the year, film of the year, worst special effects, and greatest national shame
SLIDING DOORS: Ireland’s Conor Hourihane reacts after his costly miss against Slovakia in the Euro 2020 qualifying play-off semi-final. Picture: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile
Sat, 02 Jan, 2021 - 07:00 GOAL OF THE YEAR
Richie Hogan: Traditionally, the garrison game and its exponents get short shrift during the big championship clashes, but Richie’s magic moment revealed nearly every Hurling Man’s latent appreciation of Dennis Bergkamp. SAVE OF THE YEAR
Connell Waldron had his shot saved
Presumably, Paul Mescal will get some class of All-Star for services to selling togs. But it shouldn’t be forgotten that Lenny Abrahamson eventually had to persuade unheralded keeper Adam O’Connor to let in Mescal’s winner in the Sligo schools final after a couple of worldie saves in the Normal People rough cuts.
The year in review: Has the Leinster Senior Cup lost its way? It’s the sporting tournament of choice for Ireland’s ruling class. Yet the Leinster Senior Cup has also been blighted by a spate of unsavoury incidents, prompting many to wonder whether its culture needs a sea-change 15th March, 2020
Purple reign: Clongowes Wood players celebrate with fans after defeating Castleknock in the Senior Cup semi-final. Picture: Laszlo Geczo/INPHO
It’s early March and I’m sitting in the grandstand of Donnybrook Stadium, waiting for the first of the two Leinster Senior Cup semi-finals to begin.
On that first day – where Clongowes Wood are playing Castleknock, to be followed the next day by Newbridge against St Michael’s – I’m flanked on my left by a phalanx of students from Clongowes who are chanting and singing, led by a handful of their.