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Mark Gallagher

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Sports journalist with Irish Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday

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11.01.2026 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pompey meeting Arsenal in Cup shortly, a game redolent of noughties Premiership. Spoke to oughterard's Conor Shaughnessy about how he's loving life on the island, playing for the reborn club

11.01.2026 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A momentous year ahead: Here's the 10 biggest questions in Irish sport in 2026 2025 was a great year for Irish sport, but there's plenty to look forward to in 2026. Here's some of the burning questions we have for the new year.

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01.01.2026 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Anthony Joshua v Jake Paul: Entertainment? Only The Donald thinks so... Netflix, of course, grabbed him for a prediction and the Masters champion, like the rest of the world, could see nothing but Anthony Joshua knocking out Jake

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21.12.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Anthony Joshua v Jake Paul: Entertainment? Only The Donald thinks so... Netflix, of course, grabbed him for a prediction and the Masters champion, like the rest of the world, could see nothing but Anthony Joshua knocking out Jake

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21.12.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Big night for Brian Barry-Murphy, as he crosses swords with his friend and former City colleague Enzo Maresca in the league cup. Spoke to him last week about learning from Pep, why Cardiff City reminds him of a county team and of course, his famous Dad.

16.12.2025 11:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Interview with Keane Barry in today's Mail on Sunday ahead of Ally Pally

07.12.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Katie Taylor's appearance on Late Late Show and how Ella Thompson spoke of how she inspired her was a reminder that the decision to put Ireland's friendly yesterday behind-closed-doors was an own goal.

30.11.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Claire Dooley hopes to qualify for Winter Olympics in mogul skiing, spoke to her during week about her family history, including her grandmother who revived Brisbane's Paddy's Day Parade, and why it would mean so much to represent Ireland at Olympics

30.11.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A few of us were allowed to watch Ireland's behind-closed-doors friendly yesterday, so you just have to trust us when we tell you Abbie Larkin was best player on the pitch and Anna Patten impressed again when moved to base of midfield for second-half

30.11.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ireland's behind-closed-doors friendly yesterday, so you just have to trust us when we tell you Abbie Larkin was best player on the pitch and Anna Patten impressed again when moved to base of midfield for second-half

30.11.2025 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Loads of coverage of today's do-or-die clash in Budapest in today's Mail on Sunday

16.11.2025 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Irish players have started to go thru their paces at the Puskas Arena ahead of tomorrow's big game at this impressive stadium. Mood in the camp pretty good as you'd expect.

15.11.2025 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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FAI Cup final day has become one of best annual occasions in Irish sport and usually means overtime for Dublin fire service. Hopefully match will match pre-match atmosphere

09.11.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pico Lopes has been the story of this League of Ireland season. He sat down with a few of us in Tallaght this week to chat about a remarkable few weeks.

08.11.2025 10:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Max Kovalevskis gets Ireland's fourth, just reward for a fine display and then replaces by his Rovers teammate, Arsenal-bound Victor Ozhianvuna. Panama almost had penalty but was ruled out after video review

05.11.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Michael Noonan finally gets the goal his performance deserves, 3-0 now to Ireland after 58 mins. Ireland have begun second half a bit sloppily, but have found their groove again. Umeh had a stunning finish ruled out moments before for a marginal offside

05.11.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ireland two up. Lovely finish from Kian McMahon-Brown into bottom corner. Nice build-up play, deft touch from Martos. Michael Noonan hit the bar from 25 yards minutes just before the second goal. Ireland playing v well

05.11.2025 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jaden Umeh's superb glancing header puts Ireland one up against Panama in opening world under-17 cup game, brilliant corner from Finneran. Ireland have looked very impressive in first 20 mins

05.11.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mike Tomlin giving little away in Carton House ahead of the game in Croker. Interestingly Steelers aren't going to stadium prior to game

26.09.2025 11:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mike Tomlin giving little qway at Carton House ahead of the NFL game in Croker

26.09.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Top Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif has been killed by Israel in Gaza in what appears to be an assassination.

He was one of the few journalists left alive in Gaza after Israel have killed 232 other journalists in less than 2 years.

He is the 233rd.

10.08.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 466    πŸ” 302    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 20
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How Donegal's defence can cope with David Clifford McGuinness has been able to make it work because of the quality of defenders they have, and the speed at which they can move into a zone if they sense danger.

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25.07.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bit of Black Sabbath here at Tolka before the game for Ozzy

23.07.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Katie Taylor's pure class overcomes Netflix's warped fight coverage Katie Taylor did it. Of course, she did. Like we always knew she would. And she saved her best for last.

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13.07.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Teamsheet as Shels return to Champions League.

09.07.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How the sad story of Parnells offers many lessons to the GAA There was a time when I couldn't pop down to my local without being told about the latest inter-county superstar rumoured to be relocating to Coolock.

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29.06.2025 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Life in league after Duff as Bohs blow title race open Bohs fans are used to the team playing above themselves when they face their old rival, but nobody was prepared for how well the team played in an exceptional opening half.

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24.06.2025 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Dublin's win over Limerick will be enshrined in hurling history 'What I would say on top of that, he could have played nine or 10 years for Dublin, there's no question about that and you know why that didn't happen.

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23.06.2025 10:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dilemma for Delap as striker is offered chance to make Ireland switch Heimir HallgrΓ­msson has revealed that he met Ipswich striker Liam Delap to gauge if he has any interest in switching nationality to Ireland.

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30.05.2025 09:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0