Ryan O’Dwyer: Dublin’s hurlers need to add a little chaos to their game‘Dublin look to have a rigid gameplan and nobody steps outside of that’Sat Jun 26 2021 - 06:00
Weekend Gaelic football previews: Throw-in times, TV details and verdictsAll four provincial championships get underway on the first weekend of actionSat Jun 26 2021 - 06:00
Time to release the Championship dogs of warBy the time The Sunday Game music strikes up, seven summers will have endedFri Jun 25 2021 - 20:46
Hurling’s declining goal rate best exploited by ruthless LimerickUnlikely any contenders will outpoint the champions so they must find a way to hit netSat Jun 19 2021 - 09:30
Stephen Cluxton question one of a few facing Dublin ahead of championshipAs things stand, the Dubs seem to still have more filling in to do than in other yearsMon Jun 14 2021 - 06:15
Dublin and Donegal both left a bit empty after semi-finalOne suspects the video analysis of this match won’t play much part in the coming weeksMon Jun 14 2021 - 05:00
Dublin edge Donegal in bizarre mezzanine semi-final matchKerry’s landslide win over Tyrone earlier in the day meant there would be no league finalSat Jun 12 2021 - 21:47
Dave Pelz, tell us exactly what Phil Mickelson’s Pelz swing is?Nasa scientist has worked with hundreds of tour professionals through the decadesSat Jun 12 2021 - 09:45
This Donegal team have no real choice but to focus on attackLeague suggests Ulster Championship will be even more of a tombola spin than usualSat Jun 12 2021 - 08:00
Weekend Gaelic football previews: Throw-in times, TV details and verdictsA busy weekend of semi-finals and playoffs for both promotion and relegationSat Jun 12 2021 - 06:00
Tipperary knuckle down and give Westmeath a dusting in MullingarLiam Sheedy’s side cut out the errors and cut loose in impressive styleSun Jun 06 2021 - 17:53
Two years is a long time for London and New York GAAMcGovern Park in Ruislip will finally welcome a crowd again this weekendSun Jun 06 2021 - 11:30
Malachy Clerkin: Ireland will beat Andorra . . . won’t they?The Stephen Kenny era is in a twilight zone and will die on the vine without positive resultsMon May 31 2021 - 06:00
Roars set to return as GAA fans click through the turnstiles againTyrone’s Niall Morgan looking forward to feeling pressure from the crowd once againSat May 29 2021 - 08:00
Malachy Clerkin: It’s hard to love football when it’s on all the timePremier League during the pandemic has become a chore with matches on every dayMon May 24 2021 - 05:00
Pat Nevin: I was the normal one, it was the rest of football that was weird‘It’s okay to be an outsider. You can still have a football career without having to fit in’Sun May 23 2021 - 07:00
Stephen Cluxton: The skinny lad in goal who forged Dublin’s endless empireThis week marks 20 years at number one for a generation’s private, peerless heartbeatSat May 22 2021 - 06:00
Hurling league previews: Throw-in times, TV details and verdictsGalway ring the changes for Tipp clash, Antrim may keep powder dry against DublinFri May 21 2021 - 18:09
Malachy Clerkin: Sport is all about fun - like hitting a golf ball on the moonThe rain might have poured at times over the weekend but there were moments to savourMon May 17 2021 - 09:44
Antrim keep Kilkenny honest but Cats’ class wins the dayDarren Gleeson’s side are given a reminder of the gap they have to close to the top sidesSun May 16 2021 - 16:56
Kilkenny loom large as Antrim’s hurling odyssey gathers paceTwo seasons after scrape with Division 2A relegation, Darren Gleeson’s side are making wavesSun May 16 2021 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: And on the 147th day, football rose againThe return of GAA matches is another small Lego brick of life clicked back into placeSat May 15 2021 - 06:00
Weekend hurling previews: TV details, throw-in times and verdictsCan Antrim do it again? Big guns Limerick and Galway, and Tipp and Cork meetFri May 14 2021 - 19:24
Antrim ensure the first weekend of the 2021 season is one to rememberNeil McManus inspires landmark victory over Clare on return to Division 1Mon May 10 2021 - 06:00
GAA returns at last but lack of urgency to get bums back on seats is bafflingNothing summed up the lost months better than Ciarán Doyle’s incredible pointMon May 10 2021 - 06:00
An intercounty season five long months in the makingThe Covid-19 enforced shutdown finally ends as the hurling league breathes life into 2021Sat May 08 2021 - 06:00
Referees ‘going in cold’ and with new rules to contend with‘You’re going in with zilch done, no in-house matches, no challenge matches, nothing’Sat May 08 2021 - 06:00
‘All you have is now’: For Niamh Fitzpatrick, grief and sport fuel the desire to liveSport psychologist’s sister Dara was tragically killed while on Coast Guard duty in 2017Sat May 01 2021 - 08:00
Malachy Clerkin: If Japan can find a way the Olympics have to be worth savingGames seem to be the one event on the planet too big to put on and too big to cancelSat May 01 2021 - 08:00
Malachy Clerkin: The league has always been the league, and never more so than in 2021Patience will be the key word when it comes to players, referees and even counting subsWed Apr 28 2021 - 06:00
Leona Maguire is right at home in golf’s upper echelonsCavan native comfortable competing with the best and now an LPGA Tour win beckonsMon Apr 19 2021 - 05:00
How the GAA wove its way through the black summer of 1981Association had to tread lightly through volatile situation in which members were involvedSun Apr 18 2021 - 07:00
Trust trumps Zoom for Terry Hyland and his Leitrim exilesNo county has their players spread far and wide quite like the Connacht underdogsSun Apr 11 2021 - 08:00
Malachy Clerkin: The Golfmageddon has to end - please just let us playGolfers are getting twitchier by the day as the world’s longest shutout drags on and onMon Mar 29 2021 - 06:00
Ireland out of tune again in ‘embarassing’ defeat to LuxembourgStephen Kenny takes ‘responsibility for everything’ as World Cup hopes slip awaySat Mar 27 2021 - 22:53
TJ Reid well-placed to see physical and mental toll of lockdownsKilkenny hurler on believes people just want ‘leadership, clarity and a plan’ in pandemicSat Mar 27 2021 - 06:00
The Karate Kid: The martial arts classic that won’t kick the bucketIt’s silly, implausible and irresistible – and still going in the form of Netflix’s Cobra KaiTue Mar 23 2021 - 06:00
International sport is far more complex than simply ‘Us v Them’From CJ Stander to Irish dominance at Cheltenham, it’s more grey than black and whiteMon Mar 22 2021 - 06:30
Small band of GAA information warriors busy joining the dotsMayoGAABlog has fully searchable archive of Mayo results going all the way back to 1902Sun Mar 21 2021 - 10:30
‘Dad was only 62 when he died. My friend’s partner was only 37. Everyone’s only is their own’He finished his 40 years of work and a year later he was diagnosed with cancerSat Mar 20 2021 - 06:00
Unassuming Rachael Blackmore scales fresh heights to finally take centre stageIrishwoman becomes only the second jockey ever to ride six winners at a single CheltenhamFri Mar 19 2021 - 18:57
Cheltenham week should raise uncomfortable talk about gambling addictionMalachy Clerkin: Hidden problem is not discussed enough in public discourseMon Mar 15 2021 - 06:00
Unassuming number one Townend comfortable in his own skinChampion jockey clear favourite to be the leading rider at Cheltenham again next weekSat Mar 13 2021 - 01:00
White Men Can’t Jump is about so much more than basketballIn Ron Shelton’s hands, sport is the universal story-teller, the great revealer of characterWed Mar 10 2021 - 06:30
Benefits of sport far outweigh the Covid risks so why are kids still not playing?Lack of clear guidance means a generation of children is drifting away from sportMon Mar 08 2021 - 06:00
The story behind the amazing growth of women’s Gaelic footballThe average number of clubs per county has gone from 20 to 43 in two decadesSat Mar 06 2021 - 10:12
I, Tonya reveals a deeper truth than Harding’s level of guiltThe compelling film of the Harding-Kerrigan scandal gets to the heart of human frailtyThu Mar 04 2021 - 06:00
The sports fan would like to wake up now, thanks very muchThe whole point of being a sports fan has always been that sport was just there . . .Mon Mar 01 2021 - 06:00
Above Water: a crisply told story of surviving abuseTrish Kearney’s account of her abuse at the hands of George Gibney is powerfully toldSun Feb 28 2021 - 06:00
Push-and-pull between Tiger Woods and the machine kept us all raptNobody else could have become the most famous athlete on earth while playing golfWed Feb 24 2021 - 06:20
