O’Neill steps into the unknown as Galway eye silverwareEverything is different as hurling championship starts, even press conferencesWed Oct 21 2020 - 05:00
Masks, loads of parking and no people: Covering GAA in a pandemicOur GAA writers reflect on a different working environment over the weekendMon Oct 19 2020 - 17:24
A Sunday of contrasts as silent GAA season hangs in the balanceMayo fans must be wondering just what their team could achieve after stunning win in TuamMon Oct 19 2020 - 01:00
Mayo look a team reborn as they thrash old enemies GalwayAidan O’Shea wreaks havoc in Tuam after battered hosts lose Damien Comer early onSun Oct 18 2020 - 17:53
Kevin Barry: ‘John Lennon at 80 would have been the crankiest auld bastard alive’Author Kevin Barry on the places, voices and events that inspire his storiesSun Oct 18 2020 - 06:00
GAA should be thanked for performing a national serviceThis year people ‘need’ the All-Irelands in a way they’ve never needed the games beforeSat Oct 17 2020 - 06:00
Keith Duggan: Ireland cruelly denied the possible prospect of a beautiful summerManner of defeat deeply frustrating for the luckless Kenny – and absent ConnollySat Oct 10 2020 - 07:00
Bubble bursts as LeBron James leads American sport’s fight for real changeIt started when Colin Kaepernick took a knee but this summer has seen an explosion of protestSat Oct 10 2020 - 06:00
St Thomas’ work their way to three in a row in GalwayInjury to Daithi Burke doesn’t help Turloughmore’s chances in hurling deciderSun Oct 04 2020 - 17:51
Diarmuid Connolly guilty of one thing - breaking the borders of footballing geniusThere has always been the sense that he couldn’t fully give into the idea of uniformitySat Oct 03 2020 - 07:00
Kevin Walsh and colleagues lifting the lid on football coaching methods30-minute clinics aimed at coaches take a detailed look at specific skills of the gameThu Oct 01 2020 - 06:00
If soul-searching was a sport, today’s GAA teams would all be championsIt is the stock response of losing sides, but when did this quasi-mystical guff creep in?Sat Sept 26 2020 - 06:00
Superfan John Murphy keen to keep streak going and make it 80 not out in DonegalA fire was started at the age of five when he witnessed the Mayo homecoming in 1936Sat Sept 26 2020 - 06:00
Paul Galvin’s Wexford departure takes a little of the shine off thingsFormer Kerry star’s move to the west of Ireland puts an end to management career for nowSat Sept 19 2020 - 06:00
Keith Duggan: Surreal story of John Delaney needs to act as a wake-up call for FAIChampagne Football works as both a jaw-dropping chronicle and a morality taleSat Sept 19 2020 - 06:00
Elish Kelly doing her bit to get everything up and running again in ItenKenya has done well battling coronavirus but for young athletes the future is uncertainThu Sept 17 2020 - 06:00
Snap Shots: Charting a tumultuous year through the eyes of a football clubHistorian David Kynaston’s year-long diary chronicles the fate of Aldershot Town FCWed Sept 16 2020 - 06:00
Bernard Brogan’s story shaped by a savage internal refusal to quitSo long the star, Brogan had to graft his way back from injury and fight for every minuteSat Sept 12 2020 - 06:00
Wiggins lobbing identity grenades? Keep calm and carry on . . .‘Bantz’? The truth is Brits can’t conceive of anyone not wanting to be BritishSat Sept 12 2020 - 05:30
Keith Duggan: Great lockout tearing the soul out of sportThere is something empty and hollow about games being played in front of empty seatsSat Sept 05 2020 - 06:00
‘People were shocked and amazed . . . they could not believe the tranquility of it all’This was the summer the Irish came to Aran, in the strangest tourist season in recent memorySat Sept 05 2020 - 02:33
Sporting upsets: ‘Boring’ Arsenal snatch the league from under Liverpool’s noses in 1989The title was destined for a city haunted by tragedy - Michael Thomas didn’t read the scriptMon Aug 31 2020 - 06:00
Sideline Cut: Emboldened NBA stars take protest to a new level in seismic weekPlayers’ burning sense of anger boils over and this time around the show did not go onSat Aug 29 2020 - 07:00
Why We Swim: A love letter to swimming, crammed with facts and personal storiesBook review: Bonnie Tsui looks at swimming culture and skill with a memoir-like qualitySun Aug 23 2020 - 06:00
Irish sport prospers in spite of a political system that doesn’t give a damnAll sports organisations in this country are doing their level bestSat Aug 22 2020 - 08:00
It’s taken a global pandemic to show that the GAA is local to its very coreThere has never been a bigger appetite for club games among a national audienceSat Aug 22 2020 - 06:00
My sporting disappointment: Jimmy White and the elusive World ChampionshipThe Whirlwind was alluring and made it all feel possible but never tasted Crucible gloryMon Aug 10 2020 - 06:00
Shots in the Dark: A portrait of Britain as a struggling teamBook review: David Kynaston takes the UK’s temperature as old certainties crumbleTue Aug 04 2020 - 06:00
Sporting Cathedrals: How the Olympiastadion overcame historyThe stadium still stands as one of the most intact physical symbols of the Nazi regimeMon Aug 03 2020 - 08:00
On and off court, LeBron James remains a voice of justice in the USKeith Duggan: In strange season, Lakers star is insistent on justice for Breonna TaylorSat Aug 01 2020 - 08:00
Connemara’s tourism industry rides seasonal tide but fears uncertain futureCovid-19 has changed Connemara’s season, removing the people that are its lifebloodSat Aug 01 2020 - 01:00
The former NBA coach who is teaching Connacht ‘the why’David Howarth is enjoying the less ‘shiny’ world of rugby after life in the NBASat Jul 25 2020 - 06:00
Keith Duggan: Mike Tyson’s aura of wildness still defining his second actFormer champion is making a return to the ring for what will be a huge pay daySat Jul 25 2020 - 06:00
Keith Duggan: An empty Madison Square Garden locker room, Patrick Ewing and meHouses of Sport: First visit to New York’s most famous arena was quite an experienceMon Jul 20 2020 - 06:00
Keith Duggan: For so many, Jack Charlton’s voice was the soundtrack to IrelandSecond Captains clip of interview with Jimmy Armfield brought it all back homeFri Jul 17 2020 - 18:00
Keith Duggan: Bubba Wallace tweet shows just how troubled Donald Trump’s mind isWhile a pandemic rages, the commander-in-chief falls back on what he knows bestSat Jul 11 2020 - 07:00
Andy Moran on moving on from a Mayo career that glowed golden to the end‘There was no regret. But still, you do have a massive void in your life’Sat Jul 11 2020 - 06:00
Game Changers: Futuristic views set Herbert Chapman apartLegendary Arsenal manager was ahead of his time on and off the pitch in every wayWed Jul 08 2020 - 06:00
The Best Of Times: Taylor’s triumph a beautiful, unforgettable moment of perfectionAugust 10th, 2012: Keith Duggan reports from the ExCeL Arena in LondonMon Jun 29 2020 - 06:00
30 years of frustration melt away as Liverpool finally reclaim their perchFor the supporters of certain generations, and the overseas army, this is the sweetest of triumphsSat Jun 27 2020 - 08:00
Harsh reality of being a pro footballer in Ireland laid bare in documentaryCraig Speer had unique access to out-of-contract players as they battled to stay in the gameSat Jun 27 2020 - 06:00
Keith Duggan: How we could all do with a dose of that Italia 90 feeling just now30 years ago it seemed like the whole of Ireland burst out on to the streets at the same timeFri Jun 26 2020 - 06:00
FG will try to form a government, ‘but not at any price’This is the start of a realignment in Irish politics; it is time for FG to get radicalFri Jun 26 2020 - 01:00
Keith Duggan: West mourns two men at the beating heart of GAADeaths of Brendan Coffey and Garda Colm Horkan remind us what’s really importantSat Jun 20 2020 - 06:00
Hoteliers see light at end of the tunnel after ‘avalanche of setbacks’West coast businesses make changes in hope public will return after bewildering few monthsFri Jun 19 2020 - 01:27
Greens wary over lack of detail in ‘vague’ programme for governmentMembers believe it will take a lot of persuasion to get two-thirds to endorse documentThu Jun 18 2020 - 01:00
GAA needs to ask if it could be doing more in the case of diversityFlags are not the only things that need to disappear in Ireland’s reckoningSat Jun 13 2020 - 08:00
‘I think people are worried if they can pick up a book off the shelf’Kenny’s Bookshop in Galway reopens but business is not as straightforward anymoreMon Jun 08 2020 - 17:11
Sideline Cut: Marcus Rashford proves himself a leading man off the pitch alsoManchester United’s young striker has been a shining light during a grim time in BritainSat Jun 06 2020 - 12:00
Without the tourists, the Galway Market is a very different place to shop‘I am hopeful that people will start coming to see the market as a real local market’Sun May 31 2020 - 16:57
