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Larry Ryan's biggest winners and losers of 2020 Including save of the year, film of the year, worst special effects, and greatest national shame SLIDING DOORS: Ireland’s Conor Hourihane reacts after his costly miss against Slovakia in the Euro 2020 qualifying play-off semi-final. Picture: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile Sat, 02 Jan, 2021 - 07:00 GOAL OF THE YEAR Richie Hogan: Traditionally, the garrison game and its exponents get short shrift during the big championship clashes, but Richie’s magic moment revealed nearly every Hurling Man’s latent appreciation of Dennis Bergkam...

His team left every fibre, every cuticle out on that field and yet, for the last 10 minutes or so, Dublin were rolling home with all the ease of a pleasure steamer. We are just stenographers in their world now, tasked with transcribing the small detail of outlandish numbers. They are an imperious, undramatic team built to work through these days logically and without fuss. It’s true that nobody rattles Dublin physically quite like Mayo, yet where is the comfort in that after eight years without a league or championship win against the city team? So just take some pictures and place them in ...

On the evening of May 19, 2012, Dean Rock was engrossed in the Champions League final between Chelsea and Bayern Munich when his phone lit up with a call from Pat Gilroy. Dublin were due to play Louth in a couple of weeks in the opening round of the Leinster SFC, the first game of their All-Ireland SFC defence. The optimist in Rock assumed the manager was giving advance notice of his championship debut, sufficient time to get his head around the occasion. Turns out, he was being dropped from the squad. "It just transpired that, for whatever reason, I wasn't deemed good enough at the time," Ro...

Dr Mick Loftus. Photo: Piaras Ó Mídheach / SPORTSFILE Dr Loftus says the build-up to this All-Ireland final is different from other years and everyone is more subdued. “I don’t believe there isn’t the same excitement. It’s different definitely this year with all that is going on. “Everything is a bit quieter because we all have to watch it at home. “Mayo people always go to Croke Park. Mayo has the greatest supporters, so this is strange to have to be at home. “I do think the excitement is building up now that it is drawing close. Admitting he is disappointed not being able to...

Alexander the Great was reputed to have cried when he realised his army had no more worlds to conquer. By the time of his death at the age of 32, the Macedonian king was head of the largest empire the world had seen. The Dublin footballers are unlikely to have shed the same tears September before last when they broke through the barrier to claim the GAA's first All-Ireland inter-county senior men's five-in-a-row, masters of all they surveyed at that point. Because for some, on a personal level, there are still other worlds to conquer. On Saturday, seven Dublin players will bid to write themse...