One of the books we received for Christmas was the autobiography of former Ireland rugby union team captain Donal Lenihan, My Life in Rugby. Lenihan’s...
Rarities and Oddities
When the Premier League began in 1992, one of the notable new initiatives was the change to referees’ kits. Whereas black had been used by...
Recently, we brought news of how the decision on a new Limerick county GAA jersey had been put in the hands of the public: Choose...
We’ve already looked at the competition held to design the Melchester Rovers away kit when Roy Of The Rovers re-tooled itself as a monthly comic in...
Note: The bulk of this appeared in the Evening Echo on August 2. The two most successful clubs in Cork senior hurling, Blackrock and...
This week 23 years ago, football comic Roy Of The Rovers was relaunched as a monthly, the weekly version having stopped in March when the fate of protagonist...
As alluded to in the recent blog post on adidas goalkeeper shirt designs, the Republic of Ireland first officially wore kits by the German maker...