Issue 4 is out now. Featuring 40 pages of excellent feature writing and beautiful photography and illustrations from contributors across the globe. Póg Mo Goal issue 4 is now available to order. Continue reading → 
“With shaggy boyband hair, a slightly ruddy complexion partly obscured by his unkempt beard, he thrives in opposition to others.” Edd Norval explores the cult status of the Derry Pele, the irrepressible Paddy McCourt. Continue reading → 
The Irish team and its supporters are in turmoil right now. The manager Martin O’Neill and, in particular, his assistant Roy Keane are under immense pressure from both the media and the fans. The 5-1 World Cup play-off defeat at home to Denmark is still fresh in everyone’s mind and a week of off-field scandal followed by a gutless loss to Wales means Irish football is in a very dark place. Continue reading → 
They pulled off one of the shocks of the season by dumping Dundalk out of the EA Sports Cup. Now as Cobh Ramblers get set for the final, John O’Shea explores the effect Sport Psychologist James Claffey has had on Stephen Henderson’s team as Cork’s second club aim for bigger things. Continue reading → 
It’s a new chapter for the Irish football team but no one seems to have bought the book. Despite UEFA’s attempts to hype up the Nations League, this still feel likes a set of early season friendlies, and with the Rice and Arter sagas, Irish fans are consumed with negativity towards the management duo of O’Neill and Keane. With a glaring lack of quality in the squad, this seems like the same old story with an unhappy ending. Continue reading → 
“But most of all we ache for a deeper connection with those on the pitch, we want to feel part of something that truly represents us.” For Conor Thompson, Celtic FC has become and obsession. Continue reading → 
Dundalk FC have released the fourth in a series of videos produced by sponsors Fyffes charting the remarkable story of the club’s achievements in domestic and European competitions. Continue reading → 
Football may have been introduced to South America by British merchants and sailors, but perhaps nowhere else on Earth has taken to the beautiful game more fervently. Continue reading → 
As the most popular sport in the world and the source of so many cultural icons, football has always been seen as a topic worth delving into when it comes to the art of cinematography, though usually with very mixed results. Continue reading → 
The Ink Factory are doing a fundraising event called The Bucket List in aid of ALONE. Here, Bucket Lister Michael tells how he became an ALONE Ireland Tenant and explains the idea behind his tattoo, based on his favourite football team. Continue reading → 
From the very first three lions crudely sewn onto the woollen shirts worn by the England players for the world’s first football international in 1872, to todays multi-million pound brands, The Beautiful Badge brings alive a history of the game like never before. Continue reading → 
One of World Football’s greatest mascots and club badges are featured in this edition of Crest Love. Continue reading → 
The Your First Football Shirt collection is a book by the Football Shirt Collective of 30 interviews and illustrations with footballers such as Alan Shearer and Bob Wilson and fans like BBC’s Dan walker and comedian Josh Widdicombe. Here Ireland star Jason McAteer talks about his first ever shirt, along with his most famous goal in the green jersey. Continue reading → 
While the Boys in Green were absent from the 2018 World Cup, Irish supporters were still cheering from afar. But what effect did the Cup have on Ireland? Continue reading → 
On the first day of rest, of World Cup 2018, Gavin White offers a retrospective of the group stage. Continue reading → 
Dublin designer Philip Slattery has created these stunning national flag-inspired football kits in time for the great festival of football in Russia.
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The customary cockiness is gone. In fact, England fans don’t hold out much hope of glory at the 2018 World Cup, but with the pressure off, could a closer-knit Three Lions team be a surprise package? Continue reading → 
Poet John Cummins sets the scene for the 2018 World Cup on RTE’s The Sport Show Continue reading → 
A country of massive population, strong football tradition most notably in its former guise as the UUSR, all the relevant facilities, but still one with numerous question marks over its merits as hosts. Continue reading → 
With World Cup 2018 getting underway, relive the highlights from four years ago in animator Richard Swarbrick’s unique style. Continue reading → 
Epic failure in front of 7.4 billion sets of eyes does not jibe with the traditional Russian sense of self, and just how those two will coexist is one of the most intriguing questions heading into the 2018 World Cup. Continue reading → 
As Ireland face USA in a friendly in Dublin, New Yorker Eugene O’Driscoll ponders questions of football and national identity. Continue reading → 
Kieran Burke from Between the Stripes LOI Podcast on the future direction of youth development football in Ireland. Continue reading → 
Conor Thompson explores the efforts being made by fan groups to keep the atmosphere and traditions of Liverpool FC alive. Continue reading → 
Featured article from Póg Mo Goal Issue 4. From the miracle of Bern lifting West Germany out of the shadow of the war to Didier Drogba’s Ivory Coast bringing conflict to an end, the World Cup has powers politics cannot imitate. Continue reading → 
Football Shirt Collective present “Your First Football Shirt” – an illustrated collection of stories about first football shirts. Continue reading → 
Cian Manning charts the career of the first man charged with taking the reigns of the Irish national team, Mick Meagan. Continue reading → 
Featured article from Póg Mo Goal Issue 4. The first British team to win the European Cup and their 1966 American tour. Continue reading → 
Ever heard of Regensburg? Ever heard of the city’s football team? Conor Thompson knew neither the city nor the football team before he went and studied there for a year, and learnt about football in Munich’s shadow. Continue reading → 
Featured article from Póg Mo Goal Magazine, Issue 4. Donal Fallon examines Why did defunct League of Ireland club Dublin City FC fail? Continue reading → 
An evening to celebrate the history of football in Dublin & Ringsend in The Yacht Tavern on 22nd March at 7.45pm. With speakers on the night; Eoghan Rice, Donal Fallon and Fergus Dowd. As well as a screening of an extended trailer for the upcoming feature-length documentary “Patrick O’Connell – The Man Who saved Barcelona” and A 1975 documentary about Shelbourne FC, “In My Book, You Should Be Ahead.” Continue reading → 
A new film, three years in the making, about Irish footballer Patrick O’Connell who saved FC Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War will premiere in Dublin in April, while also being screened throughout Europe. Continue reading → 
Brazil’s World Cup hopes may rest with Neymar Jr but as he faces a race to recover from injury, not all his compatriots are sympathetic. Continue reading → 
With a new season comes new kits, and MLS has dropped some beauties. A league-wide deal with Adidas means all clubs are supplied by the brand with the three stripes, an agreement which has been extended to 2024. Continue reading → 
As we are getting back into the swing of things in the 2018 SSE Airtricity League, Derry City have released a brilliant promo video to herald their return to a newly refurbished Brandywell. Continue reading → 
Cian Manning charts the journey from Cork City’s inception and introduction to the League of Ireland to their historic double winning campaign traced in six matches that include fixtures in the league, FAI Cup, UEFA Cup and even the Champions League. Continue reading → 
“More and more people are tuning into the joy a Friday night has brought thousands of supporters across the country for years.” Gavin White previews the 2018 League of Ireland season ahead of the big kick-off. Continue reading → 
Despite the fallout from the play-off defeat to Denmark, the Republic of Ireland have a good group of young talents on the periphery right now and they’re just starting to show what they’re about at their clubs. With manager Martin O’Neill pledging to introduce new blood, which five players should we be keeping an eye on ove Continue reading → 
Ryan Kilbane examines the growing importance of the League of Ireland to Irish football. Continue reading → 
Art of Football have produced their own love letter to football just in time for Valentines Day. Made up of 1600 individual hand drawings, they even managed to get Martin Tyler to commentate, and have been working on the production for around a year and a half. Continue reading → 
Thursday, November 15th, will see Northern Ireland take on the Republic of Ireland at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin in what promises to be an intriguing international friendly match. Continue reading → 
It was at Rua Javari that Pelé scored what is considered, even by himself, his most beautiful goal among more than a thousand he recorded over the course of his career. There’s no footage of it, not even seconds of video, just a photo that shows ‘The King of Football’ heading the ball to the back of the net. Continue reading → 
The 1919/20 Irish League season took place during the country’s violent War of Independence and a Leinster League game between Olympia and Jacobs exemplified the tensions that existed in Irish society at the time. Cian Manning takes a look back. Continue reading → 
On a trip to Paris, Kevin Brannigan takes in a Red Star game, who provide an alternative to the commercialism on show at Parc Des Princes, for locals and tourists alike. Continue reading → 
For Fionn O’Dea, Ireland’s World Cup play-off heartache will take a long time to heal just like his previous scars playing and following the not always beautiful game. Continue reading → 
It’s do or die in a two legged playoff with Denmark for a place in the World Cup in Russia next summer and Oscar Torrans has produced this beautiful design in the latest of our ongoing Póg Mo Goal Match-day poster series. Continue reading → 
In the build-up to two huge play-off games for Ireland against Denmark, Eugene O’Driscoll casts his mind back to the last meeting between the teams, when debate raged about accommodating a small gifted midfielder, but a 4-0 win offered hope. Continue reading → 
The long wait is almost over. James McClean’s heroics in Cardiff have given the Republic of Ireland a two-game shoot-out with Denmark to decide who will appear at next year’s World Cup in Russia. Ahead of the do-or-die clashes, Claus Røndbjerg-Christensen has the view from our Scandinavian opponents. Continue reading → 
Dublin-based photographer Tom Beary’s unique take on the 2017 SSE Airtricity League season viewed through his camera lens. Continue reading → 
Photographer of football culture Przemek Niciejewski was with the fans of Olympiakos and Panathinaikos to capture the atmosphere of the Athens Derby. Continue reading → 