Malachy Clerkin: Sport Ireland must avoid Rowing Ireland’s Oireachtas committee woesDáil hearings useful in holding sporting bodies’ feet to the fire, but they do not get to the nitty-grittySat Jan 31 2026 - 06:00
Jim McGuinness can sniff out disrespect in an instant, but chasing Kerry matters above allFallout from All-Ireland final no-show adds to significance of Sunday’s league game against championsSat Jan 31 2026 - 06:00
Jake Morris sees Tipperary home but Galway can take heart from defiant league openerOn a rotten night for hurling, the All-Ireland champions were put to the pin of their collar by Micheál Donoghue’s sideSat Jan 24 2026 - 21:34
NFL previews: Donegal aiming to upset the odds by beating refreshed Dublin in league openerMcGrath Cup losers Kerry missing players as they begin title defence against weakened RoscommonSat Jan 24 2026 - 06:00
Intercounty managers reborn as coaches all the rage as counties expand their expertiseA quarter of the counties setting out on this year’s football league have former intercounty managers among their coaching staffSat Jan 24 2026 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: Welcome back to the league, the faithful droopy-eyed hound of the GAA familyMany teams have real problems they’ll want to fix in the next two monthsFri Jan 23 2026 - 15:44
NFL Division Four: Wicklow and Longford chasing promotion, with Carlow and Antrim in the mixWith no mid-range team slumming it in the basement division, this is the best chance in a while for teams to escape itMon Jan 19 2026 - 19:00
Malachy Clerkin: The All-Ireland club finals are precious because they are uniqueMost teams arrive at this stage knowing it could be their only chance of glorySat Jan 17 2026 - 06:00
Dingle’s Paul Geaney: ‘I don’t want to be selfish. I’m just lucky that I can be’Family and community at the centre of Dingle’s charge to Sunday’s All-Ireland finalSat Jan 17 2026 - 06:00
Why did Brooks Koepka rejoin PGA, what has it cost him to quit LIV and will others follow?Tour’s new management wants Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau back in fold, tooTue Jan 13 2026 - 18:37
Malachy Clerkin: Arsenal fans can worry their way to the title but that’s no way to liveMikel Arteta’s team is six points clear with the deepest squad and stuttering rivals - their supporters need to start enjoying itFri Jan 09 2026 - 17:42
Malachy Clerkin: Trump is showing Fifa what a shameful mistake its bogus peace prize wasThe US president has spent the month since his award showing Gianni Infantino and the world that he is the war-mongerer in chiefMon Jan 05 2026 - 13:35
50 people to watch in 2026: From film and music to arts, activism, sport and moreThe artists, entrepreneurs, activists and musicians set to shake things up in the new yearSat Jan 03 2026 - 06:00
Son of his father: How Robbie Brennan’s dad inspired him to bring Meath back to victoryThe Meath manager wouldn’t be the Meath manager without his Meath dad, Patrick BrennanSun Dec 28 2025 - 06:00
An indifference to running? Now that’s the kind of team mascot we can all get behindIt has been a long, tough year, but in the middle of it all, a lone hero stretches and yawns in a Colorado barnSat Dec 27 2025 - 06:00
St Martin’s don’t want winter to end as they build on decades of work to fly Wexford flagFacing off against Ballygunner this weekend, the Martins are savouring the best days in the club’s historySun Dec 21 2025 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: Rory McIlroy is special because of his vulnerabilities as much as his victoriesNothing in sport in 2025 compared to the rollercoaster night watching the final round of the Masters at AugustaFri Dec 19 2025 - 13:07
From Tokyo to Istanbul and Croke Park: the top 25 moments of the year in women’s sportWorld and European champions, record-setters and mould-breakers, Irish sportswomen had another stellar yearThu Dec 18 2025 - 13:00
Scotstown finally win their Ulster title on the back of a phenomenal Rory Beggan display Monaghan goalkeeper scores 11 points as his team falls over the line after an extra-time battle against KilcooSun Dec 14 2025 - 12:17
The Northern Standard recorded the childhood sporting careers of me and many others. Its closure is a sad dayAfter 186 years of publication, The Northern Standard will put out its last edition next week. What a sad, grim thingSat Dec 13 2025 - 06:00
Beyond Skorts: How Ireland’s sportswomen kept clearing impossibly high bars in 2025Away from the rí-rá of the skorts debate, Irish women offered a bounty of sporting firsts in 2026Sat Dec 13 2025 - 06:00
Charlie Smyth’s foot-perfect NFL debut has put Tadhg Leader’s kicking programme on the map GAA player from Co Down’s journey to kicking for the New Orleans Saints began with a session in Carlow hosted by Leader in 2023Sun Dec 07 2025 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: Shameful police reaction another wound inflicted on Hillsborough familiesAfter 36 years of being lied to and gaslit, victims of the disaster deserve so much betterSat Dec 06 2025 - 06:00
TV View: Zippy Fish left trailing in second as Munster flunk scrum universityThe AFLW Grand Final was a bit of a shambles but their half-time entertainment was an idea worth stealingSun Nov 30 2025 - 21:02
From Mike Tyson to Boris Becker and DJ Carey – the best sports books of 2025It is a vintage year for biographies, memoirs and deep dives into sport’s darker sidesSun Nov 30 2025 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: Scrums are like Finnegans Wake – you either haven’t a clue or you spoof that you doRugby needs to do so much more to enlighten a baffled public as to why a retreating scrum concedes so many penaltiesFri Nov 28 2025 - 19:43
Malachy Clerkin: As the club industrial complex kicks in, this Ireland team has shortened the winter Transfers, form, fitness: settle in for months of obsessing over the almost 40 players with a chance of making the squad in MarchFri Nov 21 2025 - 20:14
Troy Parrott gave us a chance to be innocently happy. Whatever happens from here, that lasts foreverOver the campaign, this Ireland side showed themselves to be all the things you’d want from a team representing the countryMon Nov 17 2025 - 14:23
Malachy Clerkin: Ireland needed a get-right game and they got what they were looking forIreland finally looked in tune for the first time in the autumn internationalsSat Nov 15 2025 - 23:46
Domhnall Nugent: ‘This guy messaged to say that after I talked about addiction, he went to the GP and it saved his life’The St John’s and Antrim hurler has escaped drink and drugs and homelessness to turn his life around and win a county titleSat Nov 15 2025 - 06:00
Beating Portugal changed how people see the Ireland team. Long may it lastThe chances of making the World Cup are still pretty slim but suddenly there’s an energy that has been missing for too longFri Nov 14 2025 - 14:30
Troy Parrott scores twice to pull off a victory for the ages over Portugal ‘I think it’s probably the best night that I’ve ever had in my whole life,’ says Parrott after match-winning doubleThu Nov 13 2025 - 22:23
Ireland player ratings: Troy Parrott magnificent, Seamus Coleman heroic, Dara O’Shea defiantIreland’s win over Portugal was the outstanding result of the Heimir Hallgrímsson era, every one of his players gave the performance neededThu Nov 13 2025 - 21:57
Malachy Clerkin: Gianni Infantino inventing the Fifa Peace Prize for Trump is humiliating all roundAny child can tell the difference between a real prize and a fake one – how is the US president not dying of sheer mortification?Sat Nov 08 2025 - 06:00
The annoying and enduring appeal of Eddie Jones, the world’s longest-serving test rugby coachJapan has played a huge role in the career of the man who has coached - and won - more international games than anyone elseFri Nov 07 2025 - 15:00
‘His good name will probably never recover’: DJ Carey begins 5½ years in prisonJudge ‘couldn’t imagine a more reprehensible fraud’ than extortion based on cancerTue Nov 04 2025 - 06:00
Kellie Harrington comes out of retirement: ‘This is what I want to do. This is what has saved me’Paris was supposed to be the end for the two-time Olympic gold medallist but a year of reflection has led her to decide to get back into the ringFri Oct 24 2025 - 15:41
David Gillick’s terrific book reminds us of how little we know about sportspeopleMalachy Clerkin: We think we can read the minds of sportspeople. What a dopey conceitFri Oct 24 2025 - 14:04
Evan Ferguson’s Roma goal drought coming under scrutiny of Italian mediaThe Irish international is not the first striker to get off to a slow start at Roma but the pressure is growing Wed Oct 22 2025 - 12:15
Malachy Clerkin: All hail Pope Leo XIV, the world’s most famous sporting trash-talkerHis Holiness didn’t allow the fact that his own team is terrible stop him from zinging a Chicago Cubs fan. Amen to thatSat Oct 18 2025 - 06:00
Conor McHugh brings it all back home as he aims to win Dublin doubleNa Fianna man hopes to cap a year that has already brought a club All-Ireland, a wedding and his intercounty hurling debutSat Oct 18 2025 - 06:00
Shane Ryan on the Enhanced Games: ‘You have no idea of the shitstorm that I’ve caused’The three-time Olympian says he is willing to take performance-enhancing drugs because the money he will earn is life-changingWed Oct 15 2025 - 13:12
Ireland’s win over Armenia fails to uplift as they look timid and bereft of any clear planTigran Barseghyan’s red card was a godsend, but even then Heimir Hallgrímsson’s team made it look difficultWed Oct 15 2025 - 06:00
By joining the Enhanced Games, Shane Ryan will be a paid stooge of a doped-up circus Ryan will be a sunny, articulate spokesman for a grim plaything of tech billionaires with God complexesTue Oct 14 2025 - 18:00
Malachy Clerkin: The Jim Gavin fiasco was a long overdue humbling for GAA exceptionalism Micheál Martin had his head turned by Gavin’s football success, forgetting it’s just a sport, no better or worse than the restSat Oct 11 2025 - 06:00
Andy Farrell interview: From timid boy to leader of men, his secret is leaning into discomfortIreland head coach also places a high value on personal authenticity, as readers of his new memoir will discoverSat Oct 11 2025 - 06:00
There has never been an international footballer to compare to Cristiano Ronaldo Annoying, vain and with an ego the size of Jupiter - but there’s no arguing with the numbers he has put up for PortugalFri Oct 10 2025 - 12:59
Malachy Clerkin: If data in football is as useless as Martin O’Neill says, why does everybody use it?The former Ireland manager is surely putting on a pose when he rubbishes the statistics that have become so engrained in the gameSat Oct 04 2025 - 06:00
Irish Olympic hopefuls have won 45 senior medals worldwide in 2025. Where did it all go right?Three years out from the LA Olympics, new faces have emerged into a system that finally seems to be workingFri Oct 03 2025 - 13:00
Ryder Cup Day Three: Shane Lowry holes the crucial putt as Europe win the Ryder Cup – as it happenedHole-by-hole action from Bethpage Black as Luke Donald’s side just about hold off stirring American fightbackSun Sept 28 2025 - 23:50
