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 [...]

From Adrian Russell:

Old soldiers often visit now-green fields which long ago heard their last gunshot in order to retrace hard-made steps and remember battles fought.
If any gnarled and scarred Irish veterans of the memorable USA ‘94 campaign ever make the pilgrimage stateside, the site of their most famous victory will be utterly unrecognisable.
Earlier [...]

From Adrian Russell:

Anyone who follows NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal on Twitter is lucky enough to have their mundane, work-a-day lives punctuated by lightening strikes of comic genius – intentional or not – from the Cleveland Cavaliers star.
Now – at last! – someone has made motivational posters for you, reader, to print out and paste [...]

From Adrian Russell:

From the front page of today’s Irish Examiner: Bertie Ahern watches the Arsenal-Man U game in 3D in Fagan’s. Insert your own joke.
Emmet Ryan of Action81 was there for us – you can check out his report there, including the former Toiseach’s opinion.

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From Adrian Russell:
Ask a New York cabbie, “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?” and they’ll invariably tell you “practice, practice, practice”.
With my collar pulled above the nape of my neck to shield myself from a sheet of the wettest Kerry rain, as I shuffled along the road between Killarney and Tralee [...]