Welsh View: Ireland Will Lose to Dragons’ X-Factor
Football reporter Mark Pitman has the hosts’ view ahead of the do-or-die Wales versus Ireland World Cup showdown in Cardiff. He answers our questions. Continue reading → Football reporter Mark Pitman has the hosts’ view ahead of the do-or-die Wales versus Ireland World Cup showdown in Cardiff. He answers our questions. Continue reading → Póg Mo Goal World Cup 2018 Qualifiers Posters – Ireland V Serbia
Designed by Ruben Lyon, a graphic designer from Bremen in Germany who claims Irish roots, we bring you the next installment of the Póg Mo Goal Match-day Poster series for Ireland V Serbia. Continue reading → Serbian View: No Lead is Safe Against the Irish
Underage world champions and top of their World Cup group, Serbian football is on a high right now. Provided they don’t make a familiar mistake and slip up against Moldova, they will roll into Dublin expecting a fight to the finish, writes Milos Dusanovic. Continue reading → Póg Mo Goal World Cup 2018 Qualifiers Posters – Georgia V Ireland
Donegal Designer Brian MacRory has designed a stunning effort in the latest Póg Mo Goal Matchday Poster series for the upcoming away fixture against Georgia. Continue reading → Magic Walters, Our Only Wizard of Aus…10 Talking Points
A terrible start and a rip-roaring finish, Ireland’s clash with Austria ended with substance thanks to Jon Walters’ equaliser but was worryingly devoid of style. We are still in a brilliant position to qualify for next summer’s World Cup, so why does it feel so precarious? Here are ten talking points after a huge week for Ireland’s qualification hopes. Continue reading → One Year to Go to the World Cup
In 12 months’ time, the FIFA World Cup will kick off in Russia and Copa90 set the scene by explaining why it’s the greatest competition on Earth. Continue reading → Póg Mo Goal World Cup 2018 Qualifiers Posters – Ireland V Austria
Graphic Designer Adam Caul brings us a wonderful Subbuteo-inspired graphic for the next in our Póg Mo Goal Matchday Poster Series as the Austrians roll into town for a crucial World Cup Qualifer against Ireland. Continue reading → The Nation Holds Its Breath: Watch the Full Film
On the day of the most important football match in Irish history, an expectant father is torn between witnessing the miracle of childbirth and the miracle of reaching the quarter finals of the World Cup. Now you can watch the new Irish short film, produced by the famous Weinstein Company, in full. Continue reading → You Boroughs In Green: Football in Irish-America
Ireland’s latest American adventure sees them take on Mexico this week. So, who are these supporters that continually show up in New York when the Irish arrive? What is the status of soccer in the Irish-American community? And when will we see a player born and raised in the United States line out for the Boys in Green? asks Irish New Yorker Eugene O’Driscoll. Continue reading → From the Dick, Kerr’s Ladies to Suffragettes FC
The history of the women’s game on the island of Ireland is comparatively short, though it has had its moments of controversy, and brilliance, not least in the form of a young Inchicore player who became an Italian sensation, writes Donal Fallon. Continue reading → The Call You Dream Of
Following his first appearance for Ireland, former Dundalk star Daryl Horgan speaks about getting the call up to the national squad. Continue reading → Photo Blog: Capturing the World Cup, Ireland vs Wales
Photographer Denis Vahey brilliantly captures the matchday atmosphere at Ireland’s World Cup qualifier against Wales in Dublin. Continue reading → Robbie Keane on Answering the Irish Call Up
Irish team sponsors Three have released a brilliant video featuring Robbie Keane telling what it means to play for Ireland. “No jersey ever fit so well for FAI’s newest Hall of Fame member.” Continue reading → Póg Mo Goal World Cup 2018 Qualifiers Posters – Ireland V Wales
Ireland host Wales in a crucial World Cup qualifier in the Aviva Stadium on Friday night, and American designer Andy Beller has produced this brilliant design for the next installment in our match-day poster series.
Continue reading → Welsh View: Dragons Must Not Lose in Dublin
Football reporter Mark Pitman has the visitors’ view ahead of the massive Ireland-Wales World Cup qualifier at the Aviva Stadium. Continue reading → Winter is Clearing: League of Ireland 2017 Preview
A long winter is clearing as two clubs look to knock Stephen Kenny’s Dundalk off their perch in the shadow of a historic year for Dalymount Park. Gavin White previews the 2017 League of Ireland season ahead of the big kick-off. Continue reading → Video: Where the Next Generation of Legends are Born
The new League of Ireland season has had its official launch ahead of the President’s Cup and first round of matches. SSE Airtricity have released their season promo to whet the appetite, championing the fact that so many current Irish internationals have come through the league. Continue reading → An Appropriate Sense of Irishness
The Opel Jersey’s Feargal Brennan examines the Irish fans’ connection to the current crop of international players, and the different aura around Martin O’Neill’s team today. Continue reading → The Nation Holds Its Breath: Ireland’s Chicago Cubs
On the day of the most important football match in Irish history an expectant father is torn between witnessing the miracle of childbirth and the miracle of reaching the quarter finals of the World Cup. A new Irish short film produced by the famous Weinstein Company is set for its Irish premiere at the Dublin Film Festival in February. Continue reading → Pro Vercelli: Fallen Giants of Calcio
Pro Vercelli were a side that dominated Italian football from 1908 until 1922, winning an incredible seven titles across 14 years. In a guest post, as part of their Month of Calcio, The Final Third tell their story. Continue reading → UEFA Announce Details of New Nations League Competition
Ireland’s UEFA ranking in November of this year will determine where they are classified in the new UEFA Nations League. And how they perform in the new competition beginning next year could have a major bearing on the Boys in Green’s chances of appearing at EURO 2020 on home soil in Dublin. Continue reading → Xabi Alonso – “Irish Grit with Spanish Finesse”
Xabi Alonso is one of the classiest footballers ever to grace the game. He’s played for some of the world’s biggest clubs like Liverpool, Real Madrid, and Bayern Munich and looks set to hang up his boots at the end of this season, but, as Squawka Football explain, it might have all started with a young Xabi’s trip to the Emerald Isle. Continue reading → Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
Football clubs which were formed from the employees of factories are commonplace around the world with teams like PSV Eindhoven, and Bayer Leverkusen. Ireland, too can, claim its share of such teams including St. James’s Gate from the home of the world-famous Guinness. Cian Manning tells the story of the first ever winners of the League of Ireland. Continue reading → Escape to Victory: Irish Winger to Hollywood Goalkeeper
It’s bound to be shown on TV screens over the festive period but do you know the story of Escape to Victory’s only Irishman? Cian Manning profiles Kevin O’Callaghan and explains how his Euro 88 dream was destroyed by an international teammate. Continue reading → Póg Mo Goal World Cup 2018 Qualifiers Posters – Austria V Ireland
Noel Feeney brings us a superb design in the latest instalment of our ongoing matchday poster series. With Dundalk’s European high flyers Daryl Horgan and Andy Boyle making the squad to travel to Vienna for Ireland’s next qualifier, the League of Ireland pair will be hoping to go one step further and get some game time against Austria. Continue reading → Capturing the League of Ireland: 2016
Dublin-based photographer Tom Beary’s unique take on the 2016 SSE Airtricity League season viewed through his camera lens. Continue reading → Austrian View: Getting Back to Reality
On 5th November, 2015, little Austria stood 10th in the FIFA rankings. A landslide campaign in the Euro qualifiers with nine wins and just one draw even turned the Alaba-led team into a dark horse for the tournament in France. What has happened since then? Georg Sander of 90minuten gives the view from the Boys in Green’s next opponents. Continue reading → History Not on Ireland’s Side Against Austria
Ireland’s record against Austria does not make for great reading ahead of our crucial game in Vienna. The last time we defeated the Austrians was in Dublin in 1963 in front of almost 40,000 at Dalymount Park in a European qualifier, which effectively made us quarter-finalists in the competition. Continue reading → Mythbusters: O’Neill Doesn’t Trust Hoolahan
Criticism when he’s out of the team and no praise when he’s in it, Martin O’Neill is getting hammered for a perceived lack of trust in playmaker Wes Hoolahan. But the stats don’t back it up. Can the Irish manager’s philosophy really be summarised in the treatment of one player? Continue reading → Photo Blog: Capturing the World Cup
Photographer Denis Vahey brilliantly captures the matchday atmosphere at Ireland’s World Cup qualifier against Georgia in Dublin. Continue reading → Georgia View: Keen to End Poor Run Against ‘Fortuitous’ Ireland
Georgia made life difficult for Austria in their opening World Cup qualifying game and are showing signs of improvement under a new coach. Alastair Watt gives us the inside view from Thursday’s visitors to Dublin.
Continue reading → Póg Mo Goal World Cup 2018 Qualifiers Posters – Ireland V Georgia
Upside down or right side up depending on who you support, Dublin design practice It’s Okay, have produced an amazing design in the latest in our ongoing Póg Mo Goal World Cup 2018 Poster Series. Continue reading → Con Houlihan: St. Pat’s Intellectual
The late Con Houlihan was a larger than life figure in Irish culture and journalism. His influence on sports writing was matched by a love for St. Patrick’s Athletic. Cian Manning profiles a literary giant. Continue reading → Shels and Dalymount: Historical Romance Set to be Renewed
The complex history of League of Ireland clubs and their stadiums is likely to get a little bit more complicated with the revelation that Shelbourne look set to join Bohemians in Dalymount Park in the not too distant future, writes Gavin White. Continue reading → Video: EURO 2016 Revisited
A group of Irish fans have posted a quite brilliantly produced video documenting their entire trip to France for Euro 2016. This is sure to bring back memories for the rest of the Green Army.
Continue reading → Serbian View: The Underdogs’ Challenge
Ahead of a crucial first test on the road to Russia, Serbian sports writer Miloš Marković has the lowdown from Belgrade, including a sense of disappointment that the hosts won’t get to see Robbie Keane one more time. Continue reading → COPA Casual Socks
With a collection of new argyle Football Pitch Socks, COPA has blended the world of football with
the classic pattern. Continue reading → Special Commission: Robbie Keane by Geo Law
Geo Law’s specially commissioned print for Póg Mo Goal. Continue reading → Featured: Hoop Dreams, Have Shamrock Rovers Built on Europa Breakthrough?
From Póg Mo Goal Magazine, Issue 3. Shamrock Rovers’ breakthrough as the first Irish team to qualify for the group stages of a major European competition was supposed to herald an era of domestic domination. However it hasn’t worked out that way, writes Macdara Ferris. Continue reading → Let Erin Remember: Ireland at the 1924 Olympics
Barely three years after a bloody and violent war of independence, and less than 12 months after a bitter civil war, a football team representing a new Ireland walked out at the Olympic Games in Paris. Cian Manning looks back. Continue reading → EURO 2016 Takeaway: Kings of Lyon
Ireland proved a point at Euro 2016, and more importantly, grew as a team from the experience. But what were some of the key takeaways? The Opel Jersey explores. Continue reading → Hand of History
The Irish camp is keen to dimiss it but for the French, it’s on everyone’s lips. We’re revisiting an extract from French Football Weekly’s Jeremy Smith’s interview with Phillipe Auclair, author of Thierry Henry: Lonely At The Top. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Henry is a divisive figure in French football. Perceived as aloof, an adversary of Zidane, and the apparent leader of a shameful strike at the 2010 World Cup, we look at the Frenchman’s standing in history, and that night in Paris. Continue reading → Magee, 1916, and Return of the Mac
Ahead of Ireland’s Euro 2016 last 16 clash, goalkeeping coach Seamus McDonagh is aiming to rewrite his own history with France.
Continue reading → Up the Duff – The Comeback Kid
Parachuted into the team, green giant Shane duffy was superb in our historic triumph over Italy. Having suffered a life-threatening injury on international duty six years ago, the Derry native knows all about comebacks. Continue reading → France View: Drama or Karma?
The French both admire, and fear, Ireland’s work ethic, and ahead of their last 16 showdown, the hosts can’t escape thoughts of the infamous last meeting between the sides, writes Jeremy Smith. Continue reading → EURO 2016 Diary: We’re Not Going Home
Ireland’s Euro 2016 adventure is continuing in glorious style thanks to one of our greatest ever nights which could inspire a new generation, writes Fionn O’Dea in Lille. Continue reading → Italian View: Winning Start Surprises Azzurri Fans
While many predicted Italy to challenge for the title, Azzurri fans had little hope going in to the European Championship. Ahead of Ireland’s do-or-die clash, the Italian’s winning start has come as a surprise, writes Antonio Ferrara. Continue reading → Paddy Sloan, The Original Soccer Gypsy
As the first Irish players to ply his trade in Italy, Armagh’s Paddy Sloan was a football pioneer, writes Cian Manning. Continue reading → EURO 2016 Diary: Clinging to Hope
After Swedish optimism, Irish fans’ hopes were shattered with the Boys in Green beaten in Bordeaux. With one more shot at redemption, we’re down but we’re not out, writes Fionn O’Dea in France. Continue reading → Belgian View: Red Devils Fear Irish Trap
Belgium’s loss to Italy means they face Ireland in desperate need of a response. Francois Fourneau has the view from Red Devils fans who can’t wait to mix with their Irish counterparts, and though confident they can win, hold some fear of the Boys in Green. Continue reading →