Gavin close to having full squadThe riches available to Dublin manager Jim Gavin are such he can afford to let a coin or two spill from his pocket and still …Fri Mar 01 2013 - 00:00
Keaney helps Dublin survive anxious finaleDublin 1-20 Offaly 2-16: “Ye just have to take one look down, lads,” said Anthony Daly, spreading his palms out to the troughs…Mon Feb 25 2013 - 00:00
Premier leader determined to point the way to better daysALLIANZ HURLING LEAGUE Cork v Tipperary: As a new season beckons, Tipperary captain Shane McGrath is ready to consign last year…Sat Feb 23 2013 - 00:00
Daly a little more cautious as he starts fifth year in chargeGAELIC GAMES: The world spins at such an alarming rate sometimes that it can throw you for a bit of a loop when you stop to …Thu Feb 21 2013 - 00:00
St Brigid's day leaves Cross' brokenSt Brigid’s 2-7 Crossmaglen 1-9: Tony McEntee walked out of the Crossmaglen dressing room like a man trying to slip unnoticed…Mon Feb 18 2013 - 00:00
Ballymun Kickhams' Curran cites break in momentum as his only concernFebruary ushers the club championships centre-stage, that fractured old hotchpotch of a competitionWed Feb 13 2013 - 00:00
Nineties men showing young guns the wayALLIANZ FOOTBALL LEAGUE: An ever decreasing band of durable brothers are still lacing up their bootsSat Feb 09 2013 - 00:00
Gavin hands Cluxton captaincyDublin manager Jim Gavin surprised many observers on Saturday night in Croke Park by announcing goalkeeper Stephen Cluxton as…Mon Feb 04 2013 - 00:00
Dublin unveil a capital idea on their first night outDublin 1-18 Cork 2-9: On a Saturday night of ultimately pretty routine league fare, Dublin sprung a surpriseMon Feb 04 2013 - 00:00
Kildare display their sharper edgeKildare 2-14 Donegal 1-13: Kildare opened their Division One campaign with a hard-earned four-point win over the All-Ireland…Sat Feb 02 2013 - 00:00
Gavin praises the work of FRC in efforts to tackle a tricky subjectThe cold water that is the usual treatment from intercounty managers for new playing rules proposals got a little warmer yesterday…Tue Jan 29 2013 - 00:00
Tyrone are wintering wellTyrone 4-11 Monaghan 1-10: The nice man from the BBC asked Stephen O’Neill afterwards how he felt about winning what was, by…Mon Jan 28 2013 - 00:00
Eager Bolton aiming to set the record straightAsk Emmet Bolton how he’s done against Dublin in the past and the answer isn’t one he has to go rummaging for.Sat Jan 26 2013 - 00:00
Tributes pour in for Heffernan, an all-time great who revolutionised Dublin footballGAELIC GAMES: Tributes poured as heavy as the January rain last night as one of the all-time greats, Kevin Heffernan, was remembered…Sat Jan 26 2013 - 00:00
Donaldson sneaks under the radarSome weeks it’s just a matter of hanging around, trying not to look too shifty and hoping nobody notices you until it’s too late…Mon Jan 21 2013 - 00:00
Rose leads the way by one shot as Irish quartet try to stay in touchIn a world ruled by TV, there are two ways to see this HSBC Golf Championship now, shorn as it is of its two biggest namesSat Jan 19 2013 - 00:00
McIlroy and Woods take early leaveBetween one thing and another, you can bet that whoever signed the appearance fee cheques here this week will feel like they’…Sat Jan 19 2013 - 00:00
After all the great fanfare, McIlroy fluffs his lines on opening daySee, this is the problem when you stand up in front of the world and tell it that this new thing you’ve got is going to make …Fri Jan 18 2013 - 00:00
Rose and Donaldson share the early runningJustin Rose has never played this course beforeFri Jan 18 2013 - 00:00
Woods and McIlroy downplay burgeoning rivalryAfter the snap and crackle of the early part of the week here, time to pop down and watch some golfThu Jan 17 2013 - 00:00
McGinley had prepared for the worst but now gets ready for a roller-coaster rideIt was just after 10.15 on Tuesday night that Paul McGinley took his place between Thomas Bjorn and Tour chief executive George…Thu Jan 17 2013 - 00:00
Fitting reward for ultimate team player McGinleyRYDER CUP 2014: For years, the biographical note under Paul McGinley’s entry in the European Tour’s media guide carried the …Wed Jan 16 2013 - 00:00
Player power seals the deal for McGinleyGOLF: Ryder Cup 2014 In the end, good sense prevailed and the European Tour listened to its playersWed Jan 16 2013 - 00:00
McGinley confirmed Ryder Cup captainGolf: Paul McGinley is the first ever Irish captain of a Ryder Cup team after the European Tournament Committee chose the Dubliner…Tue Jan 15 2013 - 00:00
Lights, cameras, action as McIlroy signs up to the ranks of 'the swoosh'The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque took 11 years to build and sits today in Abu Dhabi as the eighth biggest mosque in the worldTue Jan 15 2013 - 00:00
Monty goes into deliberation day with the wind at his backThe prospect of Paul McGinley being gazumped for the 2014 Ryder Cup captaincy appeared to move closer here yesterday, with Colin…Tue Jan 15 2013 - 00:00
Sprint finish in a race that wasn't supposed to be a race2014 Ryder Cup: There comes a time in a man’s life when he should be above all of thisMon Jan 14 2013 - 00:00
HSBC's heady cocktail of dirty linen and laundered drug moneyTIPPING POINT: Giles Morgan’s blood was up, his dudgeon highMon Jan 07 2013 - 00:00
Managing expectations only part of the challengeFourteen clean slates, all waiting for chalkSat Jan 05 2013 - 00:00
End of the long road to get Ali's visit on filmRoss Whitaker’s film tells the story of one of the more unlikely chapters in Ali’s lifeMon Dec 31 2012 - 00:00
Inside track on a wretched life of endless lying and constant vigilanceGENERAL: Away from the mainstream, some of the best offerings this year are on two wheelsSat Dec 15 2012 - 00:00
Craven’s superhuman efforts pay off as Paralympics finally claimcentre stageBefore he was a knight of the realm, long before he was standing beside Seb Coe at the opening ceremony with a curious world …Wed Dec 12 2012 - 00:00
Impressive Ballymun looking the partLEINSTER CLUB SFC FINAL Ballymun Kickhams 0-11 Portlaoise 0-8: In Ballymun this morning, they’re on the hunt for a metalworker…Mon Dec 10 2012 - 00:00
So far, so good: Curran left pleased“This is getting to be a habit,” says Portlaoise co-manager Mick Lillis as the Ballymun dressing room calls for a bit of hush…Mon Dec 10 2012 - 00:00
Owens adopts yes-we-can Obama spiritGAA: Sometimes you find yourself in the strangest of seats when the music stopsThu Dec 06 2012 - 00:00
Dr Crokes give Castlehaven cause for painDr Crokes 0-19 Castlehaven 0-12: With little more than the briefest flexing of their muscles, Dr Crokes confirmed what we’ve…Mon Dec 03 2012 - 00:00
'They brought their A-game to the table'Vince Casey has seen plenty of pretty good Dr Crokes teams come and go – he came and went on a fine one himself when they won…Mon Dec 03 2012 - 00:00
Ballymun ease past wasteful SarsfieldsBallymun 1-8 Sarsfields 0-5 You know the day has been a foul one when the best even the winning manager can say about it is: “…Mon Nov 26 2012 - 00:00
Maher and Thurles firmly focused on unfinished businessGAELIC GAMES : For most of his hurling life, Pádraic Maher has only felt the escalator rising under his feetThu Nov 22 2012 - 00:00
Farewell Rita Byrne - carrier of words that kept the beast fedTIPPING POINT: We lost Rita Byrne the other dayMon Nov 19 2012 - 00:00
Funding will be pro rata - RingSports grants: Minister of State for Transport, Tourism and Sport Michael Ring has made a commitment to distribute the imminent…Sat Nov 17 2012 - 00:00
'You don't want to throw the baby out of the pram until we have something else to put into the pram'Sport in the recession Part 5: As Michael Ring prepares to distribute the latest grants under the Capital Sports Programme, …Sat Nov 17 2012 - 00:00
Ballymun emerge tall from the rubbleDUBLIN SFC FINAL Ballymun Kickhams v Kilmacud Crokes: THEY DIDN’T see it comingSat Oct 27 2012 - 01:00
Breen shoulders the pain of defeatWOMEN’S FOOTBALL ALL-IRELAND SENIOR FINAL: AS THE incredible Cork ladies football team rolled on to yet another All-Ireland …Tue Oct 09 2012 - 01:00
Cork conjure another master classGAELIC GAMES: EXCELLENCE MARCHES to its own beatMon Oct 08 2012 - 01:00
Supreme Cork reach seventh heavenWOMEN’S FOOTBALL ALL-IRELAND SENIOR FINAL: JUST FOR a snatched minute or two midway through the opening half, an optimist’s …Mon Oct 08 2012 - 01:00
Gavin ready to deal with capital expectationsDUBLIN FOOTBALL: NEWLY-APPOINTED Dublin manager Jim Gavin could have been forgiven for throwing his county chairman a raised…Sat Oct 06 2012 - 01:00
Cork look to reach sevenWOMEN'S FOOTBALL ALL-IRELAND SENIOR FINAL Cork v Kerry ON AND on they roll, one of the great teams in Irish sportSat Oct 06 2012 - 01:00
Just about keeping all the balls in the airHANDBALL: As he enters his last world championships, Paul Brady is that bit more relaxed while still in search of perfectionSat Oct 06 2012 - 01:00
'it's very hard to beat a feeling we have today'“IT’S VERY hard to beat a feeling like we have today,” says Brian Cody, nailing in a sentence the one simple reason this never…Mon Oct 01 2012 - 01:00
