Ireland v England: Reacting to adversity is the best tool Andy Farrell has given IrelandScenario planning only gets you so far - attitude is crucial when things go wrongThu Mar 16 2023 - 05:00
Tadhg Furlong: ‘If you’re not excited about playing this weekend, where are you in the sport?’As the drumbeat to the Grand Slam builds, Ireland players know there’s no point pretending it’s just another gameWed Mar 15 2023 - 05:00
Jake Morris leads goal burst as Tipperary eventually break Waterford challengeJake Morris scores a hat-trick as more clinical Tipp side win league clashSat Mar 11 2023 - 21:26
Davy Fitzgerald: ‘I have a bit better perspective. As you get older, you see life for what it is’The Waterford manager has been involved in senior inter-county hurling for 33 years and his passion still burns brightlySat Mar 11 2023 - 00:00
Gary Lineker’s Match of the Day saga is a depressing sign of the times for the UKIf the BBC won’t support someone so famous and beloved, what are the chances they’ll back a lowly reporter trying to hold the Tories to account?Fri Mar 10 2023 - 19:14
Mayo are safe but everything else is up for grabs in helter-skelter Division OneTyrone’s win over Kerry shows the league to be as dangerous a bearpit as it ever wasSun Mar 05 2023 - 19:44
Mayo survive late Roscommon charge in an unlikely blockbuster of a gameTwo late goals for the home team turned what had been a one-sided affair into a dramatic nail-biterSun Mar 05 2023 - 19:00
Was all the fuss worth it for Rory McIlroy to help make rich golfers richer?With the Masters looming the Northern Irishman’s play on the course has started to slip a littleSat Mar 04 2023 - 05:00
Format change means Kildare in the Tailteann Cup is far from impossibleAvoiding relegation from Division Two might not be enough so the fight for places at the bottom will be ferocious in the coming weeksMon Feb 27 2023 - 12:29
Monaghan’s experience throws the Roscommon bandwagon off the railsDivision One leaders lose their unbeaten run to more seasoned and savvy operators on their home patchSun Feb 26 2023 - 17:25
Wicklow’s Mark Jackson on course to be highest-scoring goalkeeper in football historyStill only 24, he passed 100 points last week – although you wouldn’t want to be relying on the GAA to tell you about itSat Feb 25 2023 - 00:00
New calendar means Kerry’s league struggles could come back to bite themChampionship is only six weeks away and Jack O’Connor’s side are a long way from looking readyFri Feb 24 2023 - 20:45
John Motson had an untamed love for football’s nooks and its crannies - he was a figure who defined an eraHis sport took over the planet across the span of his career and yet he never gave the slightest hint that he’d wearied of itThu Feb 23 2023 - 13:54
From McCabe to Shine, Rowe to Mustaki - Remembering when Ireland U19s shocked the world A dream run at the 2014 Euros laid the foundations for the success of Irish soccer and created bonds for lifeSun Feb 12 2023 - 05:00
Six Nations 2023: Did the gap between France and Ireland just get wider?Fabien Galthie had never lost to Ireland as a player or coach and his side were stunning in patches but it just wasn’t enough in the endSat Feb 11 2023 - 18:59
Six Nations: Ireland 32 France 19 - As it happenedAndy Farrell’s side proved too strong for the defending champions in a thriller at the Aviva StadiumSat Feb 11 2023 - 17:14
Malachy Clerkin: The Liverpool fan just wants the season to be over at this pointWith the Merseyside Derby on the horizon, the fraught business of supporting Jürgen Klopp’s side has taken a turn for the worseSat Feb 11 2023 - 05:00
Colm Parkinson: ‘If people hate me, I don’t have any problem with that’The former Laois player has built his own GAA podcast from scratch and a year in, it’s going from strength to strengthSat Feb 04 2023 - 06:00
Katie Taylor and Croke Park are the perfect ingredients for a classic Irish sporting meltdownEddie Hearn should obviously pay the money but does he really have any idea of the madness he’s walking into?Fri Feb 03 2023 - 19:00
Where’s the next Con O’Callaghan coming from for Dublin?It’s seven years since he arrived along like a lightning bolt - since then there has been a lot of auditions but few starring rolesMon Jan 30 2023 - 13:15
Dublin survive shooting woes to secure a one-point win over KildareEarly-season rust on show all over the pitch as Dessie Farrell’s men make an unconvincing start to life in Division TwoSun Jan 29 2023 - 17:21
We should be screaming about survey on problem gambling among intercounty GAA playersA recent study showed that intercounty players gamble significantly more than the general public, yet almost nobody noticedSat Jan 28 2023 - 05:00
The National Football League: the GAA’s best and most abused competitionSuccess in the league means so many different things to so many different peopleFri Jan 27 2023 - 17:00
Cavan and Westmeath to prosper in hipsters’ choice Division ThreeWith four Ulster teams and five first-year managers, it has the makings of a cut-throat few monthsTue Jan 24 2023 - 20:46
NFL Division Three: Four Ulster teams feature in competitive leagueWestmeath already guaranteed of All-Ireland football later in the year after Tailteann Cup victoryTue Jan 24 2023 - 19:57
Club finals provide redemption for Kilmacud and BallyhaleFor the first time, last year’s runners-up have both come back to win the club All-Ireland titlesMon Jan 23 2023 - 06:00
Olivia Mehaffey is finding her way back after grief brought on a breakdownAfter losing her father to cancer, the Armagh golfer endured a torrid 2022 and stepped away from the gameSun Jan 22 2023 - 10:00
The ballad of Brett Maher, the NFL kicker who became a walking punchlineYou don’t want to be a famous NFL kicker – it usually means you’ve done something historically terribleSat Jan 21 2023 - 06:00
Westport GAA: Reworking structures enabled club’s spectacular revival‘There’s a lot of moving parts and you have to work hard to get every section working in tandem together’Sat Jan 21 2023 - 05:00
Cooley Kickhams: Playing numbers are good but finances need help‘I’m sitting down these nights and going, ‘How am I going to get these fellas football?’Fri Jan 20 2023 - 05:00
All challenges are different for GAA clubs - in Na Fianna, we crave spaceSympathy towards Dublin super-clubs might be in short supply, but first-world problems don’t go away just because you call them thatThu Jan 19 2023 - 05:00
A rotten elbow the worst of six red cards as David Clifford gets Fossa over the line to cap incredible yearRathmore have too much in hand in the Intermediate final as Kerry clubs to the double over TyroneSun Jan 15 2023 - 19:00
Owen Farrell case is blatant sharp practice and bad news for safety in rugbyThe idea that sending the England captain to tackle school is anything other than a way to take a match off his suspension is laughableSat Jan 14 2023 - 06:00
Chasing David Clifford: The magical mystery tour of Fossa’s run to the All-Ireland finalIn small venues around Kerry and beyond, the best player in the game has drawn huge crowds to junior football matchesSat Jan 14 2023 - 06:00
Lee Keegan never bought into Mayo mythology and was all the better for itThe 2016 Footballer of the Year was unique in being a shut-down man-marker and a devastating attacking threatMon Jan 09 2023 - 20:14
2022 in Numbers: Adding up the sporting achievements of the past year From Josh van der Flier, Ciara Mageean, Amy Broadhurst, Rhys McClenaghan to Lionel Messi, Roger Federer and Iga SwiatekSat Dec 31 2022 - 05:00
At Christmas, they pile on sport to feed the beast. But the beast is us Find your audience, feed your audience, capture the floating fan along the way. Rinse, repeat, growSat Dec 31 2022 - 05:00
The year in review: from Rory to Rachael, from Hampden to Wellington, 2022 gave us moments for the agesThis was the year we got back to being a part of sport’s greatest moments - and it was gloriousMon Dec 26 2022 - 00:00
Three unwise men: ‘Twas the night before Christmas...The tale of a grumpy man in a beard who’s not Keane on being back in the Sky Sports commentary box so soon after QatarSat Dec 24 2022 - 00:00
Experience to tell as Sarsfields take on first-timers Loughgiel in camogie finalGalway champions Sarsfields carry favourites' tag against first-time finalists Loughgiel in All-Ireland camogie club finalSat Dec 17 2022 - 06:00
Infantino is further proof that celebrity sporting administrators are never a good thingThe Fifa president’s white runners are a sign that he wants to be known as more than just a dull functionarySat Dec 17 2022 - 06:00
From Katie Taylor to Amber Barrett: The top 25 moments of the year in women’s sportFrom Glasgow to Munich, from Croke Park to Madison Square Garden, Irish women kept reaching for unprecedented heightsFri Dec 16 2022 - 11:00
Irish sportswomen have changed the landscape - messing it up would be an unforgivable wasteWe look back on another outstanding year for Irish women in sport with our 2022 review seriesThu Dec 15 2022 - 11:00
Christmas gift ideas for the sport lovers in your lifeFrom sorting them out with classic kit to sending them to see stars in the flesh, there are many ways to bring a cheer from sports fans this festive seasonSat Dec 10 2022 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: Pitting club hurling’s best game against the World Cup final is stupidBallygunner v Ballyhale should have been a gift to the GAA but they’re hiding it away for no good reasonSat Dec 10 2022 - 05:00
There’s only two Neymars - and one of them’s a waiterDesert Outtakes: Mason Mount v Neymar, stolen jerseys and the secret to winning a penalty shoot-outWed Dec 07 2022 - 08:05
World Cup TV View: Kev’s in a fez, Kenny’s Skittled and Ronaldo looks chicken chop sueyedSpain pay the penalty as Morocco dig in for 120 minutes, while Portugal find themselves a new superstar in RamosTue Dec 06 2022 - 21:46
Ballyhale and Kilmacud show their experience in Leinster club finalsThe reigning champions prevailed once again in torrid conditions at Croke ParkSun Dec 04 2022 - 19:26
Ballyhale dig deep to withstand Kilmacud Crokes’ spirited comebackShamrocks are Leinster champions for the fourth year in a row after surviving a brave second-half comeback from Kilmacud CrokesSun Dec 04 2022 - 18:31
We have to keep talking about suicide. Lives depend on itRed Óg Murphy’s family started the conversation, let’s keep it goingSat Dec 03 2022 - 05:00
