This is glorious. I’ve read it 3 times already and it was only published 71 minutes ago.
Paul Howard: You’ll spend the rest of your life chasing the way your first World Cup made you feel
https://t.co/bv1eZRhr9w
RIP Michael Lyster ❤️
Loved this 2018 RTÉ Tribute to him on his final day hosting The Sunday Game.
He fronted the panel so well for 35 years.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
TG4 do a super job of bringing us games that RTE couldn’t be bothered to. However the camera angles/venue for Donegal v Kerry are woeful. Makes the game almost unwatchable #GAABEO
Stunning performance from United. But why can these performances only happen once in a Blue Moon? Players are picking and choosing when they put a shift in #ManUtd
Superb game in Armagh. Field is holding up well. Credit to groundsmen. Newbridge looked dead and buried. New rules have saved the sport #ulsterclubchampionship#UlsterClub2025
The @Saints have elevated K Charlie Smyth to the active roster for tomorrow's game against the Miami Dolphins. He's in line to make his NFL regular season debut.
From Mayobridge to the NFL 🇮🇪
Coiste Chontae an Dúin and the family that is Down GAA are saddened to learn of the death of Richard Starkey, a member of our All Ireland winning Panel of 1994.
Richard was a proud member of R.G.U Downpatrick and first showed signs of his emerging talent when in the early 1980s he was a member of the St Patricks Grammar School Rannafast Cup winning team. In Club football with Downpatrick, Richard would soon earn a reputation as an uncompromising defender, equally at home in the Full Back Line or the Half Back Line, as the team won Down League and Championships. It was a time when Dunleath Park was a fortress and Richard Starkey was prominent in the home defence. He was to the fore when Downpatrick won three Senior Football Championships, in 1990,1991 and 1993, with victories over Burren, Castlewellan and Bryansford.
It would be no surprise then when Richard was drafted into the County Panel in the winter of 1993 and he would then feature at full back on a Down team that had a memorable victory over Kerry in St Patricks Park in November of that year.
It was testimony to the strength of the RGU team at that time, that Richard was one of five Downpatrick men who would play key roles on the All Ireland winning Panel of 1994, he joined his fellow Club men Barry Breen, Conor, Gregory and Gerard Deegan on that great day in Croke Park as Down beat Dublin in the All Ireland Final. Richard played his part in that Championship year, in a panel of players where every training session was a Championship match, Richard had many great battles in training with some of the best forwards Down ever had. He would continue to play for Down in the League of 1995 before returning to concentrate on playing for his Club.
In 2005, some fifteen years after his first Down Senior Football Championship win, Richard would be Man of the Match in the 2005 Down Intermediate Final, retirement was to follow and then with the desire to give something back to his Club, Richard along with Gerard Deegan took on the role of Senior Team Manager. Richard Starkey recognised how much he had benefited from his time with his Club and his County and now he wanted to share his knowledge and experience of the game to try and make a difference for the next generation of Downpatrick Footballers.
We offer our deepest sympathy to his wife Donna, his children Kristine, Joseph, Conor, Calum and Erin, son in law Ben and daughter in law Fiona, his grandchildren Tiánan, Niamh, Olive and Everly, his brothers and sisters Mary, Claire, Paul, Patricia, Brendan, John and Michael, his mother in law Denise.
To the Gaels of @RGUDownpatrick, we offer our condolences on the passing of a man who gave great service to his Club and his County, a man that we were proud to say was one of our own.