Inside Columnists

David Healy: It’s Windsor, of course we can do it

Here we go again then. Another crunch game at Windsor Park. We’ve had loads of them in recent years.

Referee's assistant is hit on the head by coin thrown by Northern Ireland fan

Steven Beacom: Please don’t throw our World Cup hopes away

I wasn't in the Windsor Park press box on Saturday. Decided to sit in the stands. Hadn’t done that in years. Probably since the early 90s when I went purely as a supporter, not a reporter.

Ricky Hatton suffered a second-round knockout in his IBO light-welterweight world title bout with Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas

James Lawton: Game over as Hatton is destroyed by Pacman

It was billed as the Battle of East and West but long before the quick and brutal destruction of Ricky Hatton it looked more like a collision between Earth and, say, Mars.

Green: Keane exit coming

Unlike my close friend and colleague Mark Lawrenson, I didn't have a drink and a chat with Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard last weekend.

In Pictures: Ireland's journey to the Grand Slam showdown

The Punter: Don’t bet on Slam formality

It may be a week for the wearing of the green, but it is red for danger as far as Grand Slam hopes are concerned at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

John Laverty: Sectarianism has no sense of humour, David

Okay, cards on the table right from the start. I know David Healy pretty well and I like him a lot.

Dublin, playing against Louth, are one of the favourites to win the Sam Maguire

Adrian Logan: Dublin are favourites for ‘Sam’

Even with Kerry 's defeat yesterday, we are none the wiser as to who is going to take the Sam Maguire this season.

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Columnist Comments

• Lawton: Wimbledon still not home for Andy

It might be different if Andy Murray had been born in Bromley or Tunbridge Wells, or his great grandmother was an innovative over-arm server in Victorian Wimbledon, like Tim Henman, or he had renounced his Scottish blood the first time he crossed Hadrian's Wall.

• Joe Kernan: Antrim now the most popular team in Ireland

When Antrim met Cavan in the Ulster football championship semi-final last weekend, the other seven counties in the province were on their side.

• The Punter: We just didn’t get to Sea

The victory by Fame And Glory in the Irish Derby poses the question as to whether or not he would have taken his revenge on his Epsom conqueror Sea The Stars?