The future looks bright for Paddy Madden

This time last year, Paddy Madden had just come to the end of a loan spell with League of Ireland First Division side Shelbourne. Now, 12 months later, the former WFTA striker is just two weeks away from possibly the biggest moment of his short career. A Champions League appearance for League of Ireland Champions [...]

League of Ireland – Dundalk make Champions pay

Dundalk 1 – 0 Bohemians In a close encounter at Oriel Park, it was Wayne Hatswell’s second half strike that seperated the two sides. Bohemians has numerous chances in the first half, but couldn’t find the target on the majority of these occasions. Mark Quigley tested Peter Cherrie from inside the area and Ruadhri Higgins [...]

League of Ireland Preview (9)

St.Patrick’s Athletic v Sligo Rovers 19.35pm, Richmond Park, Friday, 23rd April St.Pat’s go into this game on the back of  trashing Bray 4-0 during the week and will be looking to enhance their title credentials with a victory over a Sligo side who have got their season off to a solid start. Sligo have had [...]

League of Ireland Review – Galway stun Champions

Bohemians 2 – 3 Galway United Karl Sheppard emerged the hero for Galway after scoring 2 goals and winning the penalty that secured a huge victory for The Tribesmen. Bohemians were looking to bounce back from their defeat to Shamrock Rovers, however, Sheppard opened the scoring after 16 minutes with a cool finish past Barry [...]

Irish people supporting English teams

Ask 100 Irish people what football team they support and chances are, 99 of them will say they support an English team. Ask those 99 people who they want to win the World Cup this summer and chances are, 98 of them will say something along the lines of : “I just hope England don’t [...]

League of Ireland Interview – Karl Sheppard

Football Corner is delighted to announce the start of our new feature ‘League of Ireland Interview’. Each week we plan to catch up with a player from the League of Ireland and gauge their opinions relating to the beautiful game. This week, Football Corner caught up with Karl Sheppard of Galway United. The former Everton [...]

Bohs vs St.Pat’s – Top 2 ready to lock horns at Dalymount

Bohemians and St.Pat’s meet tonight for the first time this season in a top of the table encounter. Both sides have got their season’s off to unbeaten starts and will be looking to maintain that after tonights game. The Champions have the home advantage in this Dublin derby with the game kicking off at 19.45 [...]

League of Ireland : Series 5

An exciting week is expected this week in the League of Ireland. St.Pat’s have the chance to go clear at the top of the league as Bohemians are involved in Setanta Cup action. Shamrock Rovers will be looking to build on their victory last week against Galway, as they welcome UCD to Tallaght Stadium. Elsewhere, [...]