All superheroes eventually face a pivotal moment where it could all unravel. In Superman III, tar-laced kryptonite turned Clark Kent on himself. In the Dark Knight, the Joker forced Batman to confront everything he once believed in and source some fancy new weapons.
The pillars of guff are no different and on Friday night the unthinkable [...]

Half-time in Port Elizabeth and it’s parallel universe time again. Remember the movie Sliding Doors, when Gwyneth Paltrow’s life split in two when she missed her train? On RTE, Gwynnie’s England might have held a half-time lead over Slovenia but the carriage doors had slammed firmly in their faces.
A stickler for punctuality, Eamon [...]

Ten days into the World Cup and if Martin’s wife Bonnie is still holding out for a hero, the morning light has finally delivered. As we know, it’s during major tournaments that you really get to know players. More importantly, it’s when you really get to know your remote control.
And so, as Ghana and Australia [...]

“As Humprey Bogart said in, what was the picture Eamon, of all the places, in all the world…” Oh Gilesy, of all the gin joints, in all the towns, thank goodness you walked into ours. Now help yourself. The Bacardi and Cokes are on us tonight.
His movie reveries might be as sharp as Emile Heskey’s [...]

Larry Ryan has three questions for Eamo, Gilesy and Ronnie Whelan.

There were many conclusions drawn in the RTE studios at the end of Barcelona-Inter Milan last night.
The reputations of Pep Guardiola, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and La Liga, in particular, took another battering, not that Zlatan’s stock hadn’t already been long offloaded in Montrose.
Jose Mourinho, in turn, [...]

As of 2pm today, the footballers of Cork City FC, a club that finished third in the League of Ireland last season, will be unemployed. After a disastrous catalogue of spiralling debts and broken promises, the club is being wound up in the High Court.
With it go the contracts of its players – and the [...]

What does the reported settlement in the Ardmayle libel case mean for Irish bloggers?