Journalism society to visit Limerick Post and Live 95 fm

The Journalism society will be visiting Limerick's Live 95fm and the Limerick Post on Wednesday to see a real working media environment. This will be our second foray to media outlets after our trip to Sky, The Times and the BBC. http://www.limerickpost.ie/ http://www.live95fm.ie/

Soccercast week 10

Soccercast week 10

League tables unsettling for UL students

The publication of the influential ranking tables in The Times Higher Education Supplement in which all Irish universities (including Trinity) have fallen outside of the top one hundred makes for unsettling reading for the student educated on these shores. The grim realisation that your parchment, from the clichéd and fabled land of not only the Saint but the goddamned scholar, might not actually propel you to the very pinnacle of world society should have you reaching for the Motillium.

How calculations and permutations can give you palpitations

TRY to imagine me in the living room as the games on the final matchday for Euro 2012 qualification kick off. Ireland’s tussle with Armenia is on the telly, but I also have the laptop out to keep track of the other matches. Also the table is populated by the sports pages, which give the group tables at the start of play, as well as my own hand-written sheet of calculations to provide an instant answer to any ‘what if’ scenario.

The questions fly around all night: “Are we seeded?”, “What happens if France go behind?”, “So now who’s best runner-up?”. The picture changes with each goal. The clumsiness of the Armenia defence in gifting Ireland an opening goal prompts cheering from my housemates and me, but the RTE pundits spend half-time moaning about how terrible the match is and how Ireland won’t be seeded. Sorry lads, by my hand-written calculations it turns out we are seeded.

Mayweather v Ortiz preview

“Who work harder than me? No athlete work harder than me. F**k fighters. No athlete works harder than me.”

“You tell me one athlete right now that’s been dominating the game for 16 years straight without a loss. Tell me one! Tell me just one!”

Modesty and Floyd Mayweather, never together.

However, his record of 41-0 with 25 KO’s is testament that to be a truly great fighter you need to have supreme confidence.  

Can Man City buy the Premier League?

MANCHESTER City. One of the most remarkable tales in recent football folklore. This club has always been perceived as the unfashionable kid brother to their city rivals, Manchester United, always living in their shadow. Four days after United were crowned kings of Europe in 1999, Man City were scrapping it out with Gillingham in the Second Division Play-Off. Throughout the next decade, Man City were bested by their city counterparts regularly.

The Robbie Keane myth

WITH two goals in Skopje this summer, Robbie Keane surpassed Bobby Charlton’s record haul of 49 goals to become the British Isles’ leading scorer. With those strikes against Macedonia he sits on 51, far outstripping legends from other home nations such as Ian Rush, Wales, 28 goals, Denis Law and Kenny Dalglish, both Scotland, both 30 goals. He has outscored Gary Lineker for England and looking further afield; he has more goals than Jurgen Klinsmann, Rudi Voller and has just drawn level with Thierry Henry. A substantial return from 111 caps.