The Scoop

26/06/2024

The number of approved student applications for financial support at QUB almost doubled between 2018-19 and 2022-23

Kirsty King reports👇

Data obtained through a Freedom of Information Request reveals that in the 2022-23 academic year 3989 applications for QUB’s Financial Assistance Fund and the Department for the Economy (DfE) Student Support Fund were approved, a 44 per cent increase on the 2195 applications approved during the 20...

11/06/2024

⚽️✍️ If you’re worried Euro 2024will not satisfy your thirst for competitive football, fear not. Copa América begins on June 20th and Sport Editor Ryan Brolly has you covered with a preview of this summer’s action taking place in the United States

Feel like there is not enough football now the domestic European season is over? Fear not, the Copa America is set to begin Thursday June 20th creating a situation where the UEFA Euros games feed into Copa America scheduling meaning you can sit from 2pm to 2am during the group stages enjoying the be

04/06/2024

✍️⚽️ Excited about the Euros? Sport Editor and chief predictor Ryan Brolly has compiled a few teams that you need to watch in this summer’s tournament.

Another International football tournament can only mean one thing, I try and analyse who has the best outside chance of doing well, risking looking very silly, riding a wave of predicting Morocco to go far in the 2022 World Cup on the ‘Sporty Scoop’ podcast, I am going to try and do that again w...

24/05/2024

✍️ Last night Luke ‘The Nuke’ Littler overcame World Number One ‘Cool Hand’ Luke Humphries in style on the final evening of the Darts Premier League. Sports editor Ryan Brolly takes a look at the talent of Littler where he came from and what’s next for darts

If you are anyway interested in sport and ventured onto social media around Christmas 2023 you would not have been able to escape the name Luke Littler, he captured the hearts and minds of darts and non darts fans alike due to the simple fact he was entering and dominating the World Darts Championsh

21/05/2024

⚽️With some Tottenham fans supporting a Manchester City win against their club to stop Arsenal it posed the question does anyone care if Manchester City are successful over their other rivals?

✍️Sport Editor Ryan Brolly explores this phenomenon

After completing four English Premier League titles in a row and six championships in seven years it is clear that Manchester City are the best team within England and with multiple other trophies outside of these league crowns including the lauded ‘Treble’ of the English Premier League, FA Cup ...

17/05/2024

🤼‍♂️✍️ With WWE’s move to Netflix in 2025 it is clear Professional Wrestling is going through it’s biggest boom in popularity since the late 1990s. Sport editor Ryan Brolly writes how Irish performers are at the forefront of this spike in popularity.

In 2023 I authored an article for The Scoop spotlighting a few Irish Professional Wrestlers who do not get spoken about in this neck of the woods despite them occupying space as our most respected and celebrated athletes in a global context, since that article was published there has been a substant

15/05/2024

⚽️✍️ Another NIFL Premiership campaign is now in the books. Sport Editor Ryan Brolly has discussed some of the developments we have seen in the most recent campaign. Read Below 👇

The 2023/24 NIFL Premiership has now been and gone, Larne have retained the title they won for the first time last season being pushed into the last games of the championship group split by Linfield. Further down the table Loughgall FC managed to comfortably remain in the top division in their first

13/05/2024

⚽️ Remember when the Brazilian national team walked into Dublin to play League of Ireland giants Shamrock Rovers?
✍️ If not don’t worry sport editor Ryan Brolly has you covered as he tells the story of Dublin becoming the Flair City

Following their third World Cup triumph in four tournaments Brazil embarked on a world tour taking on anyone who dared step up and play them. The Brazilian National Team went to the likes of the newly formed UAE and also played Plymouth Argyle at Home Park in front of 40,000 people. The most interes

08/05/2024

Pro-Palestine students and staff at QUB occupied the Lanyon Building on Tuesday.

One protestor said "This fight will continue throughout the summer break" and "into the new academic year"👇

Kirsty King reports on today’s occupation of the Lanyon Building by Pro-Palestine students and staff at Queen’s University Belfast.

05/04/2024

Pleased to be nominated in three categories at this year’s Smedias awards 🥳 Ruby Hegarty Claire Dickson

04/04/2024

Here’s our new host of ‘the Eco Scoop’ Karnika!

22/03/2024

Better quality recording available: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SOQidhSCNbA