Month: May 2022

Dublin 6-15 Waterford 2-12 HANNAH TYRRELL MARKED her return to inter-county football in style this afternoon as the Irish rugby international hit 1-5, as reigning “Ireland rugby star Hannah Tyrrell shines on return to football as Dublin hammer Waterford”

IN THE 50th minute of Sunday afternoon’s game, Páidí Fitzpatrick was summoned to the sideline at Semple Stadium. The Clare defender gestured with his fist “‘It’s an amazing story’ – A first senior championship start for Clare hurlers at the age of 30”

MORE IRISH PLAYERS have earned new Australian Football League Women’s [AFLW] contracts as the focus switches to next season. Mayo and Cavan stars Sarah Rowe “Mayo duo and Cavan star the latest of Irish contingent to have new AFLW deals confirmed”

REIGNING CORK SENIOR hurling kingpins Blackrock will take on last year’s semi-finalists Erins Own after this evening’s draw for the 2021 club championships in the “Here are the 2021 Cork senior club football and hurling championship draws”

“A certain view of history contends that the historical narrative is just one fiction among others,” Raoul Peck’s deep, gravelly voice asserts near the beginning “It’s astounding that HBO’s new docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes even exists”

The Vox Book Club is linking to Bookshop.org to support local and independent booksellers. This pandemic winter could use some joy. So the Vox Book “How Gideon the Ninth author Tamsyn Muir queers the space opera”

In its opening titles, in cheeky medieval lettering, The Green Knight proclaims itself “A filmed adaptation of the chivalric romance by Anonymous.” That romance is “The Green Knight is glorious and a little baffling. Let’s untangle it.”

There’s a myth Americans tell themselves: After World War II, the United States had no choice but to be the world’s superpower and preeminent military “How military superiority made America less safe”