2022 May

Ireland rugby star Hannah Tyrrell shines on return to football as Dublin hammer Waterford

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 All-Ireland champions Dublin convincingly defeated Waterford in Parnell Park. In a game that was dubbed a dress rehearsal for the championship, Dublin welcomed back Olwen Carey, Siobhan Killeen, and fresh […]

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‘It’s an amazing story’ – A first senior championship start for Clare hurlers at the age of 30

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 as he ran off, saluting David McInerney who was coming on as a replacement. The message was clear. He had put in a huge shift to help establish a winning […]

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Mayo duo and Cavan star the latest of Irish contingent to have new AFLW deals confirmed

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 and Aishling Sheridan have committed their immediate future to Collingwood, putting pen to paper in recent days. Click Here: penrith panthers shirt Yesterday, Rowe was one of six players to […]

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Here are the 2021 Cork senior club football and hurling championship draws

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 county. On the day that adult club players received the green light to resume training in pods of 15 from Monday 10 May and can play games from Monday 7 […]

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Peloton star Cody Rigsby, explained by his biggest fans

Cody Rigsby hates the taste of black licorice. He calls anyone who likes it a “monster.” He also hates Justin Timberlake, orange marmalade, and people who go out to dinner and refuse to split the bill evenly. But Cody Rigsby loves, too. He loves Britney Spears, wigs (preferably secured and attached firmly to a scalp), […]

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Netflix’s Death to 2020 rehashes jokes we all spent the last 12 months making

In the opening moments of Netflix’s new comedy special Death to 2020, Samuel L. Jackson, playing a jaded veteran reporter named Dash Bracket, asks the fictional filmmakers what their fictional documentary is for. The offscreen interviewers never answer the question, and that lack of clarity sums up this hour-long parody. A mockumentary “year in review” […]

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17 seasons in, Grey’s Anatomy reimagined itself for the pandemic. But only a little bit.

Watching the 17th season of Grey’s Anatomy over a couple of weeks, around a month after my Covid-19 vaccination became fully effective, was a strangely retraumatizing experience. When the season debuted in November 2020, many Americans were still in quarantine, and Covid-19 cases in the US were about to spike again. But I watched 16 […]

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How China is ruthlessly exploiting the coronavirus pandemic it helped cause

The coronavirus pandemic that rages across the globe is a fire China helped light. And now, while Beijing grasps a fire hose with two hands, it’s also planting a boot on the world’s neck. The Chinese government spent weeks denying and downplaying the severity of its growing coronavirus outbreak that eventually spread to the rest […]

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Syria’s Idlib was already a humanitarian nightmare. Now the coronavirus has arrived.

Last week, a doctor in his 30s working at a hospital in Syria near the Turkish border tested positive for Covid-19. Three more confirmed cases came after: two doctors and a nurse. The coronavirus had officially arrived in Idlib, the last rebel-held territory in Syria. The outbreak threatens to exacerbate the ever-present humanitarian disaster in […]

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