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This site tracks Irish media’s singularly odd coverage of football (soccer), as well as the place of the sport in the Irish public’s perception.
FP highlights the often mundane, sometimes bizarre ways in which the inbuilt media bias against Irish football plays out.
Recent Posts
What John Delaney thinks of Irish football
You are the boss of a national football association whose international team has been dumped out of the World Cup by blatant cheating. You want to stress the seriousness and importance of this situation. How do you do it? How about offering a compari...
None of us are fans. All of us are fans
Two episodes of Prime Time this week neatly demonstrated the absurd polarities in Irish attitudes to football. None, or very few of us, are football fans, and we are all football fans. None of us are football fans: This was a report by Mick Heney,...
Call in the UN
Oh dear. Now Ireland is out of the World Cup, Dermot Ahern wants to call in the UN to sort out the French. He’s right to be outraged. Football is in a sorry state when such low cheating as that seen in Paris last evening is rewarded so magni...
Fingal breakthrough in Dáil
There must be something in the air out in north county Dublin. The recently invented, politically-sponsored Sporting Fingal has featured in a Dáil debate already. KildareStreet.com reports that last week local Fine Gael TD James Reilly, pleading fo...
A hoot from Hearts
Someone at obscure Scottish outfit Hearts is having a coronary over the warning by Aberdeen boss Mark McGhee that the Scottish league could soon be at the level of League of Ireland. Wouldn’t take this too seriously, mind you. This chap also w...
Post can’t get over non-mainland keeper
An Irish newspaper based in Britain is anxious that an Irish goalkeeper based in Britain might get injured, perhaps leaving the Irish team in the disastrous situation of having to play France with an Irish keeper up until recently based in Ireland. G...
