Helena Byrne

Hopefully the @FAIWomen can get another goal tonight against France. In this article I look back at the first time these sides met in Ireland in 1978. #COYGIG #IRLFRA #WomensFootball #FootballHistory @RTEBrainstorm rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

What. An. Athlete Kate O'Connor has done it again! It's BRONZE at the World Indoor Championships!! She becomes the FIRST Irishwoman to win TWO World Indoor medals. She also just broke her own Irish NATIONAL RECORD with 4839. Insane.

Very sad news in GAA circles this afternoon. The legendary Michael Lyster, the longtime presenter of The Sunday Game, has passed away at the age of 71. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

Cadbury continues to support Irish football with the ‘Paint March Green’ campaign ☘️ As proud partners of both the Men’s and Women’s National Teams, Cadbury is calling on fans and communities across Ireland to unite behind them as they embark on a pivotal month of international football 🙌 👉 fai.ie/latest/cadbury…

New post from Joe Mullin, EFF's Sr. Policy Analyst: Publishers say they’re blocking the Internet Archive because they fear AI scraping. This is a misguided notion: it won’t stop AI, but it will erase the web’s historical record. @EFF has the story ⤵️ eff.org/deeplinks/2026… #DigitalPreservation @WaybackMachine

See why the Manchester Corinthians are significant to football history; who played for them & learn of the steps officials took to help challenge the FA ban while establishing structure & competition for women’s football: amazon.co.uk/Manchester-Cor…

🇮🇪 Lá Fhéile Pádraig shona do lucht tacaíochta Sevilla Éireannaigh ar fud an domhain! Have some good craic! 😀 Our first-ever foreign manager Charles O’Hagan was from Donegal 👔

What a goal that is! Aoife Kelly gets 2026 off to a flyer 👏

📆 #OnThisDay in 1920, Ireland played their 100th official international match, a 0-0 draw against Scotland in Glasgow. 📗 Chris Lee’s “Shades of Green” is a journey into Irish football.

Today’s Irish News article on the century-long accusations of BBC bias in Northern Ireland. irishnews.com/opinion/cormac…

Delighted that this article on the #ManchesterCorinthians film also takes time out to highlight my decade+ researching the team & interviewing the players. Thanks @QuaysNews & Ayla Kerguiduff for recognising this: quays.news/manchesters-fo… Much appreciated.

A new chapter for our Senior Women’s team. Welcome to the GAWA, Michael McArdle 🤝🟢⚪️

Just launched on Saturday, there are two new books available from the Bohs store - the first is an updated version of @CiaranPriestley early history of the club with some additional content from myself and Brian Trench shop-bohemianfc.com/collections/pr…

Best of luck to the Ireland Women’s Deaf Futsal Team in the European Deaf Futsal Championships in Croatia 🙌 🇮🇪 will take on 🇭🇺 on Monday in their opening game. 👉 fai.ie/latest/ireland…

I found a copy of the original 1925 Hooper coaching manual when the granddaughter of a former club president asked my to help her go through his papers. So happy that's back in print. x.com/i/status/20292…

Keith the Apocalypse Bringer is a three-year-old Anglo-Nubian goat in a field in Devon. Keith should not be underestimated. Keith has been systematically dismantling the ecosystem since approximately 7am, when he ate a bramble. This is significant because bramble is an invasive scrub species that outcompetes wildflowers, reduces biodiversity, and creates dense monoculture thicket that nothing else can use. Keith ate it. Keith does this every day. Keith does not charge for this service. 8:15am - Keith ate a thistle. Thistles are also considered invasive scrub in managed pasture. Goldfinches eat thistle seeds, but Keith's grazing will ensure the pasture remains open enough for the ground-nesting birds that can't use dense scrub. Keith has not attended a conservation workshop. Keith arrived at this conclusion by being a goat. 9:00am - Keith dismantled a section of hedge. This was less helpful. Keith does not have a perfect record. 10:30am - Keith escaped the field. He was in the road for eleven minutes. He ate a neighbour's rose. This is not being counted in Keith's environmental impact assessment. 11:00am - Keith was returned to the field. Keith regarded the farmer with the specific expression of an animal that does not recognise the concept of property. 12:00pm - Keith ate more bramble. His digestive system: four stomachs, a rumen full of specialised microorganisms, the ability to extract nutrition from lignified plant matter that would defeat any other animal on this field, is converting scrub vegetation into milk with a fat content of approximately 4.5%. The milk will become cheese. The cheese will be sold at the farm shop. The farm shop is four miles away. The cheese food miles are: four. 3:00pm - Keith produced manure. The manure will grow the grass. The grass will grow the bramble. The bramble will be eaten by Keith. This system has no inputs. It has been running since goats were domesticated approximately ten thousand years ago. Keith is not aware he is saving the planet. Keith is thinking about whether the fence on the north side has a weak point. It does. Keith found it at 4:45pm. Keith got out again.

Absolutely delighted that the story of Maureen Charlton, one of the founding players for #ManchesterCorinthians, was highlighted in a ‘Manchester Women of the last 100 years #IWD’ walk today. She’ll be delighted when I tell her. More on her here: gjfootballarchive.com/2025/02/07/thi…

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The FAI is saddened to learn of the death of former Ireland WNT international Pauline Maher. Pauline holds the record of being the WNT's youngest debutant & goalscorer - netting in her first game against Northern Ireland in October 1973, at just 14 years, 107 days. The Association offers its sympathies to her family and friends.

I wish we lived in a world where I didn't feel constantly compelled to post this video, but until then here's Tony Benn speaking on war with clarity and moral conviction that you won't see from the evil people running the world today

For those interested in women’s football & Manchester Corinthians here’s a link to resources you may find useful: gjfootballarchive.com/2026/02/25/man… @TheMancUK @MENnewsdesk @mcrconfidential @5liveSport @BBCRMsport @BBCBreakfast @AndyBurnhamGM