Matt O’Mahoney – Kilkenny’s Soccer Pioneer
Sean Maguire is setting the League of Ireland alight with his goalscoring exploits but Matt O’Mahoney was Kilkenny’s original footballing flag-bearer, writes Cian Manning.
The Bacon Slicer: The Things I Love About Football
TONIGHT Matthew I am going to be writing about football. Chances are that if you are one of the five people who will read this piece (and yes I am bitter considering I am spending my Friday night writing this when I could be drinking tea and swooning over the Take That lads on The Late Late with Kilkenny hurler Brian Hogan-look-a-like Ryan Tubridy), then you love football too. My own girlfriend won’t even read it – subtle way of slipping in that I have a girlfriend!
Aviva La Revolution, Cup Can Save Irish Soccer
COULD the FAI Cup prove to be the saviour of Irish soccer? With the largest crowd in four decades, over 36,000, flocking to the Aviva Stadium last weekend, there followed a spectacle to enthrall the masses. And now a seed has been sown that the domestic game could achieve what is has always threatened, to capture the hearts and minds of the public.