Gerry Thornley says Leinster is a ‘classic case of the rich getting richer,’ while Sean Moran looks at ‘kite-flying’ on September All-reland finals
John O’Shea would still very much like the Republic of Ireland manager job on a permanent basis after his brief interim stint.Photo: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile
Gavin Cummiskey breaks it to us gently: it could well be July before we have a new Republic of Ireland manager, this week’s deadline for the big announcement having been pushed on. Which July? Well, hopefully this year’s, but at this rate, you just wouldn’t know.
. It will, Johnny Watterson tells us, be “the co-main event” on the Texas card with Mike Tyson, now 58, facing YouTuber Jake Paul in the other headline act, a fight few are taking too seriously., compared to just one each for Munster, Ulster and Connacht. “This is a classic case of the rich getting richer,” he writes, the advantages Leinster already enjoy “compounded”, as the other provinces see it, “by the IRFU’s contractual system”..
when he raised the prospect of a return to All-Ireland finals in September. Due to the April lull in the championship, Darragh Ó Sé is less surprised by. It used to be “one of the highlights of the summer”, he writes, “now it’s a thing to get out of the way”.ahead of his side’s Munster opener against Waterford. A top three finish is required to progress to the All-Ireland series. Would he take third place? “I’d bite your hand off for it,” he tells Gordon Manning.
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