We've Got a Game to Win

John Kenny (RTÉ Sport) looks back to Euro '88 - to a time when the Republic of Ireland played in their first ever major football tournament - The entire country came to a standstill and celebrated ...

Put 'em under Pressure'

In 1990 the Republic of Ireland soccer played in their first ever world cup finals. RTE Sports, John Kenny re-lives the games at Italia 90 where Ireland began to believe in itself and perhaps laid ...

My Uncle Jack

When Jack Dowling was just 12, he began to escape from the brutal industrial school system in Ireland, walking away from Greenmount in Cork city . Little did Jack know that walking great distances ...

From Carrick-on-Suir to the 'Côte d'Azur

Sam Bennett is a professional cyclist and is the best Irish sprinter since Sean Kelly, another who is from 'Carrick-on-Suir' Co. Tipperary. We go behind the scenes with him on his first Tour De Fra...

Once Were Champions

On March 24th 1985, Castleisland Desmonds Senior Football GAA Team won their first All Ireland title. 30 years on, we revisit the team of that time in Kerry and hear of their journey to the final -...

A Convict of the Road

2006 New York Radio Festivals Competition - World Bronze Medal - Sports Commentary and Analysis

Mick Murphy, "The Iron Man", won the 1958 Ras Tailtean, one of the great Irish sporting achievements. Mick tells Peter Woods and Liam O'Brien the extraordinary story of how, after taking up racing ...

Come on Brigids

Damien O'Reilly charts the progress of the St. Brigid's Senior Football team through the 2004 AIB club campaign, through the eyes of a supporter and includes interviews with players and supporters ...

The Beach Boys of Rossnowlagh

The four brothers who discovered surfing in the 1960s - when nobody in Ireland even knew what it was - and have kept on riding the waves for almost fifty years.

Never Knocked Down

Sean Mannion is a boxer from Connemara who has been compared to Muhammad Ali - So, how did this quiet humble hero from the West of Ireland blaze a trail to a World Title shot in Madison Square Gard...

The Two Hundred Euro Racehorse

Maria Gallagher just wanted to give a rescue horse called Rolo a home - but she soon found out she had a racehorse on her hands.