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This month
April 2024
long read
Massacre at the Marshes to the steps of the Hogan Stand: Down's All-Ireland glory, 30 years on
Ross Carr and DJ Kane take us from the triumphant years of the 1990s through the years of purgatory that have followed.
13 Apr
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This year
2024
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Crash of the ash: How dieback could break the hurley-making industry
An airborne disease has ravaged the species, leaving growers decimated and hurley-makers scrambling for a long-term supply of ash.
Arthur James O'Dea
1 Feb
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Last year
2023
best of 2023
The 42's Best of 2023: (Irish) Footballers' Lives - a weekend in north-west England
David Sneyd travels to England to spend a weekend with an array of Irish football people, including Stephen Kenny, John O’Shea and Nathan Collins.
26 Dec 2023
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What the jury didn't hear in 'cold case' trial that found Noel Long guilty of Nora Sheehan's murder
6 Aug 2023
32.7k
Voices
Irish history: 'For the first time since the Civil War, soldiers found themselves in combat'
Dr Eoin Kinsella
Updated
10 Jul 2023
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Inside the CCJ
'The Monk' acquitted: The full story of the Regency Hotel murder trial
18 Apr 2023
24.7k
Feature
Footballers’ lives: A glimpse into the struggle, fortune and enduring beauty of the game
24 Jan 2023
16.9k
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All time
ciphers of the past
The strange history of Ireland's British Empire-era postboxes
31 Dec 2022
29.5k
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Foundation
'We have a perfect storm... The game is changing and we need to change with it'
9 Oct 2021
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'He read it and said: 'Tony you cannot publish this. If you do people will think you're weak''
9 May 2021
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2000: Revisited
'The collarbone, winning the All-Ireland and then breaking my jaw, it was probably a rough enough time'
2 May 2020
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'I was sort of obsessed. Demented. Angry maybe with life as well' - Val Andrews on a lifetime in coaching
26 Apr 2020
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on the frontline
'Everyone is very much involved in this' - The Dublin All-Star doctor on duty in Temple Street Hospital
25 Apr 2020
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opening up
'You aren't thinking about anybody. You just want the pain to stop, and you'll go to any extreme to do it'
19 Apr 2020
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long read
'Mick McCarthy drove me to the ground to sign the contract. It was surreal sitting in his Mercedes'
11 Apr 2020
56.1k
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A mountain to climb
In Nepal, Sherpas are losing vital tourism income, but 'stopping the virus is more important than our jobs'
21 Mar 2020
19.1k
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long read
Concussion deep dive: 'I'd be sitting in my room and I'd just start crying. I'd be like, 'What is wrong with me?'
29 Dec 2019
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long read
'The first day I met him was in the LIT canteen 15 years ago and I was going, 'Jesus, I'm here with Davy Fitz''
17 Nov 2019
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long read
Meath coach talks Ronaldo, Guardiola, New York Knicks, Legacy, Eddie Jones and Jim Gavin
10 Nov 2019
21.0k
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At home with the Byrnes
'When he was dying he said to me: ‘Jack is going to play for Ireland, he’s special’'
2 Nov 2019
71.8k
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down-ey but not out
Kilkenny to the bone: Reeling in the years, the good and the bad, with Cats legend Ann Downey
24 Oct 2019
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in depth
Analysis: Ringrose shines as Ireland's strong defence shuts Scotland down
24 Sep 2019
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everyday hero
'I said, 'Look, I'm not going to let my mother go through that pain again of losing another child''
Updated
31 May 2019
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mentor
‘I would have come from the flats… Brian Kerr gave me the confidence to go into any room and meet people’
18 Mar 2019
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The Boy on the Shed
'My career finished with injury and the thing I feared most, my mother dying, happened at that moment... I was 21'
31 Dec 2018
30.3k
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honesty
'When Jack left me out of the squad for the Euros, I was devastated… I wasn’t the same player or person'
13 Oct 2018
34.0k
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Aslan
'If you look at U2... they kind of belong to the world at this stage, where we still belong to Ireland'
12 Jul 2018
24.3k
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'I ended up working for DHL Express and Zidane went on to manage Real Madrid'
10 Jun 2018
48.5k
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Remember when
"They asked me about Effenberg. And I said: 'If he thinks I was like his father, he played like my mother'"
15 Apr 2018
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long read
'I felt how most young boys would, thinking ‘F**k this, I’m not playing football’ as I thought I'd been shafted'
12 Mar 2018
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disclosures tribunal
'The beginning of the end': After McCabe, Tribunal now poised to enter most crucial weeks
11 Mar 2018
13.3k
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'I genuinely don’t have any regrets. I’m honest enough to realise that I didn’t put in the work'
25 Feb 2018
58.3k
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shades of grey
Heroes and villains: Why nothing is clear-cut anymore at the Disclosures Tribunal
4 Feb 2018
16.5k
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'The Irish lads at Leeds were so good to us. They would always be giving us money and stuff'
1 Oct 2017
40.5k
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family homelessness
'Mammy. I don't smile much anymore and I don't know why': Homelessness through the eyes of a child
10 Sep 2017
20.5k
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long read
'He said 'there’s no f***ing way you’re leaving this room until you sign the contract!''
18 Jun 2017
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