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Gavin Cummiskey

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Irish Times football correspondent. Train connoisseur.

 Dublin City, Ireland
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Joined October 2010
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Behind the scenes at St Patrick’s Athletic’s academy, where the next Mason Melia may already have arrived irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/…
Behind the scenes at St Patrick’s Athletic’s academy, where the next Mason Melia may already have...

Behind the scenes at St Patrick’s Athletic’s academy, where the next Mason Melia may already have...

The Dublin club has nurtured an army of gifted youngsters, with Spurs-bound Melia the standout

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Rachel Lavin@RachelLavinOct 9
Game over: Inside the ruins of Gaza’s football stadiums Sports stadium, bomb site, detainment yard, refugee camp. Hannah McCarthy and I analysed satellite imagery to look at the three-year evolution of Gaza’s football stadiums for The @IrishTimes... irishtimes.com/world/2026/10…
Game over: Inside the ruins of Gaza’s football stadiums

Game over: Inside the ruins of Gaza’s football stadiums

Sports stadium, bomb site, detainment yard, refugee camp – the three-year evolution of Gaza’s football stadiums

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Gavin Cooney@gcooney93Sep 29
Long week ahead as Ireland brace for emotional fan reaction at Aviva Stadium irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/…
Gavin Cooney: Long week ahead as Ireland brace for emotional fan reaction at Aviva Stadium

Gavin Cooney: Long week ahead as Ireland brace for emotional fan reaction at Aviva Stadium

FAI unlikely to make any significant noises about second Israel fixture until home match against Austria out of the way

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Gavin Cooney@gcooney93Sep 26
Big read here on an abject, rancorous, extraordinary day. The potential scale of fallout to come is the stuff of Saipan 2.0 Ireland v Israel: Day of Infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAI irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/…
Ireland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAI

Ireland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAI

Gavin Bazunu has been left brutally isolated as any semblance of squad unity has been utterly sundered

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Kevin Kilbane: The FAI will come to regret letting the Ireland-Israel match go ahead irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/…
Kevin Kilbane: The FAI will come to regret letting the Ireland-Israel match go ahead

Kevin Kilbane: The FAI will come to regret letting the Ireland-Israel match go ahead

I do not believe Ireland would have been left out in the cold if we had taken a stand

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Unexplained FAI loan to Limerick soccer written off as legal row brews irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/…
Unexplained FAI loan to Limerick soccer written off as legal row brews

Unexplained FAI loan to Limerick soccer written off as legal row brews

Reasons for historical loan of €70,739.20 unknown, but Sport Ireland considers the matter closed

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Tackle technique: “You don’t need to take on the full mass or velocity of the ball carrier.” irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/2…
Tackling the elephant in the room: Can Sam Prendergast build a robust case for his defence?

Tackling the elephant in the room: Can Sam Prendergast build a robust case for his defence?

Perfecting the mechanics of the tackle is where former Leinster contact coach Hugh Hogan made his name

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Tackle technique: “You don’t need to take on the full mass or velocity of the ball carrier.” irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/2…
Tackling the elephant in the room: Can Sam Prendergast build a robust case for his defence?

Tackling the elephant in the room: Can Sam Prendergast build a robust case for his defence?

Perfecting the mechanics of the tackle is where former Leinster contact coach Hugh Hogan made his name

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Georgie Kelly interview: “I am not the most gifted footballer. God almighty, I’m really not. But there was a moment.” irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/…
‘She is something else’: Georgie Kelly’s dash to see partner Kate O’Connor win gold medal

‘She is something else’: Georgie Kelly’s dash to see partner Kate O’Connor win gold medal

Carlisle striker on odyssey to see partner Kate O’Connor’s medal ceremony in Birmingham

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Shelbourne 2-2 Ajax, report from Tolka Park irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/…
Shelbourne out but not down as Sean Moore’s late brilliance secures draw with Ajax

Shelbourne out but not down as Sean Moore’s late brilliance secures draw with Ajax

Dutch giants through to next stage of Conference League but leave Ireland knowing they were in a game

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From Azaz to Vata: 10 Irish players to watch in the English Championship. irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/…
From Azaz to Vata: 10 Irish players to watch in the English Championship this season

From Azaz to Vata: 10 Irish players to watch in the English Championship this season

Eyes will be on Mason Melia’s loan move, while Andrew Moran is among those with potential

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Stop the Game protest could disrupt Ireland’s home game against Austria irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/…
Stop the Game protest could disrupt Ireland’s home game against Austria

Stop the Game protest could disrupt Ireland’s home game against Austria

Ireland’s ‘home’ tie against Israel in the Nations League has been moved to Serbia due to operational challenges

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Seán Moran: No friend, the End – Old Moran weighs up his twilight options dlvr.it/TTfGql
Seán Moran: The long-winded questions were believed to have caused the subject to die in his sleep

Seán Moran: The long-winded questions were believed to have caused the subject to die in his sleep

Caught between a late-filing past and uncertain future, Ireland’s newest pensioner reflects

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‘It was a lifestyle, not a job’: Confessions of a sports writer who mostly saw it all dlvr.it/TT6TW3
‘It was a lifestyle, not a job’: Confessions of a sports writer who mostly saw it all

‘It was a lifestyle, not a job’: Confessions of a sports writer who mostly saw it all

Making a career of mishaps and misadventures from Rio to the island of Jeju but still getting the story somehow

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Ruadhán Mac Cormaic@RuadhanITJun 5
@gcooney93 is joining The Irish Times as Sports Correspondent. He comes to us from The 42, where he led coverage on soccer, golf and the Olympics. Gavin co-wrote The Racket with Conor Niland, which won the 2024 William Hill Sports Book of the Year award.
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Heimir Hallgrímsson interview: ‘I had this presumption there was one thing I didn’t need to change: Irish players will win their duels and work hard. But ... it was not true’ irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/…
Heimir Hallgrímsson: ‘In March, I will show the Irish players our plans for the World Cup’

Heimir Hallgrímsson: ‘In March, I will show the Irish players our plans for the World Cup’

The Republic of Ireland manager discusses his formative years in Iceland, a ‘sexy’ job in Jamaica, and planning for the playoff against the Czech Republic - and beyond

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Heimir Hallgrímsson: ‘In March, I will show the Irish players our plans for the World Cup’

Heimir Hallgrímsson: ‘In March, I will show the Irish players our plans for the World Cup’

The Republic of Ireland manager discusses his formative years in Iceland, a ‘sexy’ job in Jamaica, and planning for the playoff against the Czech Republic - and beyond

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Stoke City’s Bosun Lawal keeping faith that Ireland cap will come irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/…
Stoke City’s Bosun Lawal keeping faith that Ireland cap will come

Stoke City’s Bosun Lawal keeping faith that Ireland cap will come

Versatility of 22-year-old could help convince Heimir Hallgrímsson to deploy him

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Gavin Bazunu: ‘The performance in Hungary encapsulates the change in Irish football’ irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/…
Gavin Bazunu: ‘The performance in Hungary encapsulates the change in Irish football’

Gavin Bazunu: ‘The performance in Hungary encapsulates the change in Irish football’

The goalkeeper, now on loan at Stoke, discusses his recuperation from injury, the progress of the Republic of Ireland and his advice for young Irish players tempted by a move to a European club

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