The early days of Ireland's pioneering women footballers
Analysis: Irish women's football in the 1970s enjoyed a friendship and rivalry with one of France's leading teams Stade de Reims
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The rise and fall of the Tailteann Games
Analysis: The Games were 'the greatest sporting carnival ever organised in Ireland', but the spectacle and glamour turned out to be short lived
What happened when Ireland's WNT first met France in 1973?
Analysis: Footage from that October day in Parc de Princes is so far the earliest surviving footage of Ireland's first women's national football team
Nigeria vs Côte d’Ivoire: Super Eagles look to join elite group in AFCON final showdown
The Super Eagles take a group photo before their AFCON 2023 semi-final game against South Africa. Photo: AFP
Okoku ignites Eagles: Rewrite history, conquer Ivory Coast for AFCON glory
The Super Eagles take a group photo before their AFCON 2023 semi-final game against South Africa. Photo: AFP
From 1924 to 2024: Spotlight on the Paris Olympics, then and now
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Why renaming GAA grounds is such a big deal
Analysis: selling naming rights to a stadium may be a commercial winner, but such deals have lasting effects on GAA history and heritage
'Puzzle Women': Piecing together the files destroyed by East Germany's secret police
In 1989, East Germany's Communist regime collapsed with the fall of the Berlin Wall. At the Berlin headquarters of the Stasi, the all-powerful secret police, panicked orders were given to immediately destroy the millions of cards and files that documented decades of police surveillance. When the crowd finally entered the Stasi headquarters, 111 kilometres of archives and 16,000 sacks full of paper strips – the remains of millions of shredded or ripped-up files – were saved by East German citizens.