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Brendan Crossan: Lessons of the pandemic: modern-day football is over-rated

Brendan Crossan - The Boot Room

THIS pandemic affects you in ways you never imagined.

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Covid crisis highlights need for 'unseen work' of GAA to be visible outside of the pitches and club gates

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Danny Hughes: Personal touch of Jurgen Klopp key to Liverpool success

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Brendan Crossan: Memories of Italia 90 - the good, the bad and that wonderful night in Palermo

Brendan Crossan - The Boot Room 26 Jun, 2020

DURING the hot summer of 1990 I was working as an office assistant in Peden & Reid solicitors in Belfast’s city centre.

Enda McGinley: Bumps in the Covid road show it might be wise to slow down

Enda McGinley 26 Jun, 2020

THIS past week it has felt like sitting in the back seat of a car being driven by a fed-up and erratic driver.

Remembrance of things (and players) past has been an upside of lockdown

Kenny Archer 24 Jun, 2020

IN Search of Lost Time has become Remembrance of Things Past – and there’s no debate that the latter is better than the former.

Brendan Crossan: Political unionism far too quiet when GAA comes under attack

Brendan Crossan - The Boot Room 19 Jun, 2020

FOR many people, the Grove Playing Fields between the Antrim Road and Shore Road in north Belfast has been a godsend during the pandemic.

Paddy Heaney: Only brave people can bring about true change

Paddy Heaney 17 Jun, 2020

EVERYTHING changes, nothing changes. So they say.

Premier League issues better being decided on the pitches

Kenny Archer 17 Jun, 2020

English soccer returns today but it’s hard to muster much enthusiasm under the shadow of the needlessly massive excess number of deaths that the UK has suffered.

Brendan Crossan: The Voices of Solitude and the pulse of north Belfast

Brendan Crossan - The Boot Room 12 Jun, 2020

A DANK Thursday night at Solitude lost somewhere in the early 1990’s.

Danny Hughes: Modern world leaves us with some uncomfortable truths

Danny Hughes 11 Jun, 2020

Initial positivity towards the GAA’s return-to-play roadmap made way for some over-the-top criticism and accusations of negligence aimed at the Association.

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