Final eight teams bring flaws and inscrutable mysteries - but no big scary beastDublin and Kerry are the All-Ireland favourites but either - or both - could easily crash out this weekendSat Jul 01 2023 - 05:00
Colm Reape is well suited to the goalkeeping psychodrama of Mayo v Dublin matchesA converted full-forward, Reape only started life as a GAA goalkeeper for his club in 2020Sat Jul 01 2023 - 05:00
World Cup journey starts to feel very real for Vera Pauw’s Ireland squadAll 23 players are given their official jerseys at presentation event in UCDThu Jun 29 2023 - 17:05
Conor McCarthy drills the winner as Monaghan outlast Kildare to reach All-Ireland quarter-finalGlenn Ryan’s side missed four goal chances to keep Monaghan alive and dangerousSun Jun 25 2023 - 11:42
Endgame frailties a source of real concern for MayoOpposition teams finding encouragement in McStay’s side’s costly failure to close out games they seemed to have in their handsSun Jun 25 2023 - 06:00
Can’t See, Can’t Be was the easy bit - the next step for women’s sport is much trickierThe women footballers and camogie players who drew their line in the sand this week deserve betterSat Jun 24 2023 - 05:00
Sport in Modern Irish Life by Paul RouseThis is a collection of 47 essays, musings, observations and yarns, and if one doesn’t grab you there’s another one coming right behind itTue Jun 20 2023 - 04:15
Stephen Kenny has depleted his benefit-of-the-doubt reserves with fansSomething has shifted in the support for the Ireland manager - it’s going to be so, so hard for him to shift it backMon Jun 19 2023 - 22:26
Malachy Clerkin: Rory McIlroy has somehow become a byword for losingThere will come a day when we don’t have to stay up late to grab a slice of the McIlroy action - what a dreadful prospect that isMon Jun 19 2023 - 13:38
Sunday GAA: Frantic finishes around the country plunge an adrenaline syringe into the heart of the championshipWins for Kildare, Cork, Armagh and Tyrone light a fire under the summer as jeopardy finally takes holdSun Jun 18 2023 - 21:12
Armagh top the group as injury-time free from Rory Grugan secures victory over GalwayShane Walsh misses a later chance to equalise as Kieran McGeeney’s side progress straight to the quarter-finalsSun Jun 18 2023 - 19:01
Football championship 2023? Let’s talk negativity and the apocalyptic misery of the fare on showGavin Devlin and Kieran Donaghy explain how the game is being played at the top level in 2023Sat Jun 17 2023 - 06:00
Thirty-three things to do in the 33 days until the women’s World Cup beginsSticker books and wallcharts, praying and spoofing - there is much to be done in the coming monthSat Jun 17 2023 - 05:00
Malachy Clerkin: Ireland chase shadows on dispiriting night in AthensGus Poyet’s Greece could not have imagined a more comfortable 2-1 victoryFri Jun 16 2023 - 21:58
Clare can find solace in defeat, as the numbers don’t add up for LimerickThe All-Ireland champions eked out another win and will enjoy the four weeks off - but they may not fancy meeting the Banner againMon Jun 12 2023 - 15:44
Rian O’Neill red card the difference as Tyrone keep Armagh at arm’s lengthKieran McGeeney’s side left to rue first-half sending offSat Jun 03 2023 - 21:38
Toothless Dublin look like a team waiting on a slow deathNever mind the Death of Football, the notable thing about Roscommon’s possession game is that Dublin had no answer to itSat Jun 03 2023 - 05:00
Manchester United have to win the FA Cup final to preserve the unique worth of the 1999 trebleNeither the club nor the competition means a lot to me any more – but the thought of City doing the treble has awakened a dormant geneSat Jun 03 2023 - 05:00
Malachy Clerkin: Unpopular opinion - I miss the officeThe new arrangements have, on the whole, been a positive development in the lives of people. But the pure idle osmosis of being in rooms with people is hard to replicate at homeMon May 29 2023 - 05:30
Dublin’s status as All-Ireland favourites looks shaky after patchy draw against RoscommonDavy Burke’s side should have had their first win in Croke Park since 1980 but a scrappy John Small goal hauled the Dubs back into itSun May 28 2023 - 19:05
Limerick v Cork: Shane Kingston can prove to be much more than a supersub for the RebelsDespite his talent, Kingston has played just nine full matches in eight championship seasonsSun May 28 2023 - 05:00
Go Games aren’t woke nonsense or a sign society has gone soft - they are one of the best things about the GAAThe one thing you never have to teach kids playing sport is how to be competitiveSat May 27 2023 - 05:00
It’s wild to think Kevin Moran played for Dublin and Manchester United at the same timeKevin Brannigan’s terrific new documentary Codebreaker tells the story of a unique Irish sporting careerFri May 26 2023 - 13:31
FT Leinster 26 La Rochelle 27: Leo Cullen’s men beaten again in the Champions Cup finalAs it happened: Leinster were 17 points up and lost to Ronan O’Gara’s teamSat May 20 2023 - 19:06
Football’s All-Ireland series starts this weekend – why is nobody excited?Big teams playing each other on a weekly basis, the most open competition in a generation, but the new format brings a collective shrugSat May 20 2023 - 05:00
US PGA Championship: Day Two as it happenedFollow the action with David Gorman as Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy make movesSat May 20 2023 - 00:04
US PGA Championship: Day One as it happenedBryson DeChambeau leads at Oak Hill Country Club in New YorkThu May 18 2023 - 23:48
Rory Gallagher had to go - but the issue of domestic violence doesn’t go away just because he hasDerry GAA could not have allowed the situation to continue through the All-Ireland seriesWed May 17 2023 - 12:54
Try telling anyone that was at the Ulster final that the provincial championships are an outdated relicAll involved still want to win Ulster - but for how much longer can that continue?Mon May 15 2023 - 15:07
Derry win Ulster final on penalties against Armagh as Rory Gallagher goes unmentionedA nerve-shredder in Clones sees the champions retain their crownSun May 14 2023 - 21:38
Pat Gilroy: I couldn’t do a manager’s job now, everything has changed since 2011Former Dublin manager says the Stardust disaster ‘was the worst thing that happened in our lives’Sat May 13 2023 - 05:00
The Tailteann Cup deserves better than the casual derision of Dónal Óg Cusack Most football counties will end up having to take a swing at winning the second tier All-Ireland in the coming yearsSat May 13 2023 - 05:00
Ulster final at least has clarity after Rory Gallagher steps back from role as Derry managerRory Gallagher: ‘I have advised Derry GAA that I am stepping back as Derry senior football manager with immediate effect’Fri May 12 2023 - 21:04
Jack O’Connor: Cliffords ‘honoured their mother in the best way possible and made everyone proud’Kerry and Galway stroll to easy victories over Clare and Sligo in the Munster and Connacht finalsSun May 07 2023 - 19:53
Clifford brothers star in Kerry’s Munster win 24 hours after the death of their motherOn a surreal afternoon in Limerick everyone in the crowd wanted to hug the Kerry brothers closeSun May 07 2023 - 18:05
Hiding in plain sight: Patrick Horgan and TJ Reid are pushing back the scoring boundaries Both players will pass 600 points in this championship – the next currently-active player is on 338Sat May 06 2023 - 06:00
As if Trump isn’t bad enough, now the poor people of Doonbeg have to worry about LIV GolfWhat did the fine folk of west Clare do to deserve the worst people in sport landing on their doorstep?Fri May 05 2023 - 18:45
Tailteann Cup draw: Games like Meath v Down and Cavan v Offaly make for far superior competition to last yearThe round-robin format gives everyone at least three games – the only downside could be if early defeats make teams lose interestTue May 02 2023 - 16:35
All-Ireland draw: Potential opening round meeting between Kerry and Mayo on the cardsKildare set for a potential home championship game against Dublin but can’t play at home while Newbridge is being refurbishedTue May 02 2023 - 16:23
Draws made for GAA football championship and Tailteann CupThe big game of the opening weekend looks like it will be Kerry v Mayo in Killarney. Malachy Clerkin followed the draws as they happenedTue May 02 2023 - 13:57
Clare give the summer new life as they hand Limerick their first defeat in four yearsAll-Ireland champions lose first game since 2019 while also seeing injuries to Seán Finn and Cian LynchSun Apr 30 2023 - 09:02
‘A really emotional, really vulnerable time’ - How Offaly refused to write off their year after the death of Liam KearnsNobody would have blamed the Offaly players for letting the season peter out but now they’re in a Leinster semi-finalSat Apr 29 2023 - 06:00
The GAA’s disciplinary system works — so why do they let it feel like it doesn’t?If Central Competitions Control Committee could be more transparent, there would be less room for conjecture and conspiracy theories to run freeSat Apr 29 2023 - 05:00
Sligo much too good to allow any sort of fairytale for New YorkTwo goals from full forward Patrick O’Connell eases Tony McEntee’s side into the Connacht finalSat Apr 22 2023 - 17:11
Why is Frank Lampard still the Chelsea manager?There is nothing to be gained for either party in keeping this up until the end of the seasonSat Apr 22 2023 - 05:00
Couch to Croke Park – how Jamie Boyle went from getting fit in lockdown to captaining New YorkThe born-and-bred New Yorker leads his team to Sligo on Saturday, trying to achieve the unthinkableFri Apr 21 2023 - 14:00
Big days out for Monaghan, Clare, Roscommon and New York won’t save the provincial championshipsEnjoy these local thrillers while they last - teams will eventually decide they’re not worth the hassleMon Apr 17 2023 - 13:27
Ambitious Monaghan find ruthless streak when in matters Ulster championship produces a thrilling clash as debutant O’Toole strikes late to snatch spoils against TyroneMon Apr 17 2023 - 05:00
Ryan O’Toole last-minute goal rounds off stunning Monaghan comeback against Tyrone Ulster Senior Football Championship: Young wing-back on his championship debut scores goal deep into injury-time as Farney county overcame five-point half-time deficitSun Apr 16 2023 - 19:33
Conor McManus won’t let his standards drop heading into his 17th championship seasonMonaghan’s three-time All Star hasn’t missed a championship game since 2007 and feels more success is possible under clubmate Vinny CoreySun Apr 16 2023 - 08:00
