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John Walsh: How Danish squid with green strawberries won first place once again
Tuesday 01 May 2012
What are the qualities that, for the third year running, have put a former salted-herring warehouse on the Copenhagen waterfront at the top of the world's best restaurants?
Kiro Gligorov: President of Macedonia throughout the Nineties
Monday 09 January 2012
While Yugoslavia was descending into chaos in the early 1990s, fate smiled upon its most obscure breakaway republic, the Republic of Macedonia.
They know that she's no good... Amy Winehouse booed off stage in Serbia
Monday 20 June 2011
The concert that was supposed to begin the comeback tour for Amy Winehouse turned into a fiasco on Saturday night when the troubled singer came on stage in Belgrade apparently too drunk to perform.
Milestone for Keane on fine night for Ireland
Sunday 05 June 2011
FYR Macedonia 0 Republic of Ireland 2
Wolves blow as Kevin Doyle out for up to two months
Monday 28 March 2011
Wolves have confirmed striker Kevin Doyle faces up to eight weeks out with a medial knee ligament injury.
Coleman forced to miss Irish qualifier
Friday 25 March 2011
Seamus Coleman, the Everton midfielder, has withdrawn from the Republic of Ireland squad for tomorrow's Euro 2012 qualifier against Macedonia with an ankle injury he picked up in last Saturday's 2-1 win over Fulham.
Coleman gets taste for the national stage with support from family
Thursday 10 February 2011
Seamus Coleman admits tasting international football with the Republic of Ireland has left him wanting more. The Everton winger, 22, had friends and family inside the Aviva Stadium on Tuesday night to see him make his debut against Wales in the first game of the inaugural Nations Cup, which ended in a comfortable 3-0 win for the hosts.
Ngog strikes twice to ensure a winning start to Hodgson's reign
Friday 30 July 2010
FK Rabotnicki 0 Liverpool 2
Liverpool set to launch new era (in European backwater)
Thursday 29 July 2010
Anfield new boy Jovanovic to make debut as Hodgson's side starts Europa League campaign in Macedonia
Philip II of Macedonia, By Ian Worthington
Friday 14 May 2010
Best known as the father of Alexander the Great, Philip merits the same honorific according to his biographer. In the "disunited, weak backwater" of Macedonia, he created the first nation-state and built an empire in two decades that included much of Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and former Yugoslavia.
Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend, By Richard Stoneman
Friday 16 April 2010
First the Life. Born in 356BC, Alexander was educated by Aristotle before leading the Macedonian army in three great victories over Persia. His resulting title of Great King was no misnomer since Alexander ruled "the largest empire that the world had ever known", including part of India. Stoneman says he was "perhaps the first human being in recorded history to be seized by the romance of the east".
George Burley: The highs and lows
Monday 16 November 2009
George Burley was sacked by the Scottish Football Association today following 22 months as Scotland manager. Here we document his highs and lows in the job.
Burley sacked as Scotland boss
Monday 16 November 2009
The Scottish Football Association tonight confirmed George Burley's sacking as Scotland manager.
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