Golf’s civil war raises question: how much bad blood is good in sport?Soccer fans used to applaud goals by opponents, and Irish rugby crowds stay silent for kickers, but a bit of hate-your-guts rivalry can be funMon Feb 06 2023 - 05:00
National hurling League: Cork claim dramatic comeback win over LimerickNational Hurling League: Cork were trailing at half-time but stormed back to beat the All-Ireland champions with a last-gasp pointSat Feb 04 2023 - 22:18
After a battle with leukaemia, Pat Ryan is comfortable carrying Cork’s great expectations New manager isn’t fazed by the pressure inherent in the job, but you’d expect nothing less from someone calmly managing his leukaemiaSat Feb 04 2023 - 06:00
Denis Walsh: The League does not matter like it used to, but hurling is still hurlingLeagues, as a concept, occupy such a harassed place in the GAA psyche that asking intercounty teams to take two of them seriously never stood a chance.Fri Feb 03 2023 - 19:00
Forget the acrimony, Irish rugby owes Warren Gatland a belated ‘thanks’Before the fallout over dropping O’Driscoll and not picking Sexton, Ireland’s golden period started with the Kiwi coachMon Jan 30 2023 - 05:00
Colm O’Rourke off to winning start in league as Meath rally to catch Cork in final quarterSteven Sherlock’s 14-point haul not enough as home side lose momentum in second halfSun Jan 29 2023 - 15:53
How 2002 All-Ireland winners Armagh were ahead of their time20 years on from their triumph, an insight into the methods behind the county’s run to Sam MaguireSat Jan 28 2023 - 05:00
Fan drinking and drug-taking at matches: Can it ever return to just being about the game?It is an abomination the Aviva’s atmosphere for Test rugby has been strangled by the traffic to the barMon Jan 23 2023 - 05:00
Dunloy eye All-Ireland glory after decades of slipping and climbingFormer club player Gregory O’Kane shoots for the moon once again, this time as managerSun Jan 22 2023 - 08:00
Kilmeen & Kilbree: ‘In a club not flush with numbers, success comes in fits and starts’Last year Kilmeen & Kilbree GAA club didn’t have enough players to field teams at U-17, U-19 or U-21, so they pooled their resources with two neighbouring clubsThu Jan 19 2023 - 05:00
Is national identity becoming commodified in international sport?To a certain degree, national identity has been commodified. It is no longer strictly about birth place or blood tiesMon Jan 16 2023 - 06:00
How data has begun to challenge opinion in the world of GAAAll of the top intercounty teams will have at least three analysts sitting in a coach’s boxSat Jan 14 2023 - 06:00
Séamus Power’s patience and resilience paying dividends as he joins golf’s elite ranks Schooled by every menace that golf can muster, the determined Waterford man has eventually emerged triumphantMon Jan 09 2023 - 05:00
One last hurrah: When players are not yet ready to call time on their careerYou may be past your peak, but the temptation to hang on for one more crack at an All-Ireland is sorely temptingSat Jan 07 2023 - 06:09
Denis Walsh: Hypocrisy an integral part of our racing game‘We’re furious when we realise we’ve backed a horse that’s not trying, and delighted to be told about a horse that has “a stone in hand” on the handicapper’Mon Dec 26 2022 - 09:00
Limerick fathers and sons: ‘I said it to you Ger, years ago. The boys will win it for us’On the Limerick team are five sons of former players, more than any other All-Ireland winning team in historySat Dec 24 2022 - 00:00
Sportswomen 2022: Injuries could not smother the brilliance of Niamh RockettThe Waterford camogie star has returned to match-winning action despite multiple knee surgeries and hobbling doubts.Mon Dec 19 2022 - 20:00
Darts’ Ally Pally is place of uninhibited escapism where Peter Wright is dressed as The GrinchAt Ally Pally the players’ nerves are under a constant onslaught on the ocheMon Dec 19 2022 - 06:00
Needle and the damage done: How Kilkenny’s inner fire was stoked by spite and slights The greatest hurling team of all time didn’t run purely on talent and guile, but on emotional fossil fuels tooSat Dec 17 2022 - 05:01
Sportswomen 2022: Katie O’Brien’s rowing gold medal a culmination of lifetime of determined struggleRower was born with spina bifida, which meant that the first 27 years of her life have been punctuated by surgeryFri Dec 16 2022 - 14:00
Clash between hurling and the World Cup final is not a zero-sum gameThe GAA has decided to make fixtures less flexible, which means more choice for sport loversMon Dec 12 2022 - 05:00
Denis Walsh: Cork hurlers’ strong stand 20 years ago ushered in a new era for playersTwo decades on it is instructive to remember how basic Cork hurlers' demands were when they opted to strikeMon Dec 05 2022 - 05:00
Patrick Fitzgerald continues to bloom as Ballygunner sweep away Ballyea to defend Munster titleTeenager scores 1-4 as inside forwards contribute 1-10 from play in dominant displaySun Dec 04 2022 - 13:08
GAA clubs now facing a greater challenge to reflect their home place as Ireland diversifiesIt is impossible to claim that Ireland’s dramatic population shift is reflected on the playing fields of the GAASun Dec 04 2022 - 07:00
Desert Outtakes: There is no forgiving Luis Suárez in GhanaPulisic looking positively perky; GAA spring leagues were really hot; Ronaldo still chasing EusébioThu Dec 01 2022 - 07:35
World Cup TV View: Duffer’s dressed for success – with a whiff of Eau de KeanoThe Shelbourne manager was dressed for success as Australia delivered a big upset to DenmarkThu Dec 01 2022 - 05:00
Denis Walsh: Fifa grasps opportunity to launch overdue war on time-wastingFifa decides to make up for lost time at the World CupMon Nov 28 2022 - 05:00
Harrington, McGinley and the World Cup victory that changed the face of Irish golfThe pair’s Kiawah Island win 25 years ago set the tone for the country’s future major successesSat Nov 26 2022 - 06:00
Denis Walsh: Moral outrage concerning sport is selective, impressionable and flightyOur conscience on what appears to be immutable principle should not be described as such in the first placeMon Nov 21 2022 - 05:00
Denis Walsh: Shane O’Sullivan on the power of visualisation and belief‘Liam Griffin and my Dad. Without them I would never have had the passion for this in the first place’Sat Nov 19 2022 - 06:00
The old ‘give it a lash’ mentality in Irish sport is deadWhen you look around the varied landscape of Irish sport now what you see are athletes who are not afraid to winMon Nov 14 2022 - 05:00
PSNI’s Gaelic football team - a long road to winning community trust St Michael’s was formed 20 years ago and faced hostility from nationalists - with one player killed by a car bombSat Nov 12 2022 - 06:00
Munster secure famous victory over South Africa in first Páirc Uí Chaoimh outingPacked house of 41,400 witness the province’s return to Cork in 14-point winThu Nov 10 2022 - 22:38
Rugby in Páirc Uí Chaoimh on a winter’s evening - what took us so long?The distinct congregations of the major sports have mostly disappeared, and we should all be happy about itMon Nov 07 2022 - 05:00
Golf rules: World Handicap System giving ‘bandits’ more scope to deceiveThe logging of casual rounds an open invitation to golf's handicap `bandits'Mon Oct 31 2022 - 05:00
Cork SFC Final: Nemo Rangers put in another masterclass when it matters to cap centenary yearCaptain Luke Connolly outstanding in victory over St Finbarr’s at Páirc Uí ChaoimhSun Oct 30 2022 - 19:26
A ride on the Cork carousel yet everything comes back to Nemo RangersFor Nemo it is a year of anniversaries: 100 years since they were founded, 50 years since they won their first senior football championshipSat Oct 29 2022 - 06:00
How likes of Match of the Day and The Sunday Game retain relevance in a digital age Counter to all the impulses of the digital age, it is their job to come late to the storyMon Oct 24 2022 - 05:00
Paul Flanagan’s perseverance and effort pays off with late Banner bloomingA break from the game and putting injury woes behind him helped the Ballyea corner back finally flourishSat Oct 22 2022 - 06:00
Munster struggling to recreate the magical momentum of the glory daysWith Munster there are fewer certainties these days in advance of the big clash with Leinster. That is part of who they are now.Mon Oct 17 2022 - 05:00
St Finbarr’s win Cork senior hurling championship for first time in 29 yearsGame was essentially over when Cahalane struck for Barr’s second goal in middle of the second halfSun Oct 16 2022 - 20:55
Paul Dunne: ‘You notice the cut line and it starts to get into your head’Golfer is at a crossroads and heads to Q school next month, 10 days short of his 30th birthdaySat Oct 15 2022 - 06:00
Denis Walsh: From Manchester City to the All Blacks, greatness can be hard to loveSport depends on emotional responses for its pulse so the most compelling narrative is still weakness and vulnerabilityMon Oct 10 2022 - 06:00
Colm Begley: ‘We’re trying to improve the balance for intercounty players’Former Laois star Colm Begley now fighting the good fight with the Gaelic Players AssociationSat Oct 08 2022 - 06:56
Denis Walsh: Sports psychology now very much the norm but losing remains incurableGAA sides bringing in more experts to help with the mental side of the gameMon Oct 03 2022 - 05:00
Chaos at the Cahalanes as they tog out for club and county Niall played for the Cork seniors for 13 seasons until one day he opened the paper and the panel for the opening league game didn’t include his nameSat Oct 01 2022 - 07:00
Different story now for sectarianism and sport in Northern IrelandRecent census results mirror the breaking down of religious barriers in sportMon Sept 26 2022 - 05:00
Chastened Murphy eager to get back doing what he does best Champion jockey Oisín Murphy has confronted his demons is looking forward to getting back in the saddle once his lengthy ban is completedSat Sept 24 2022 - 00:00
Denis Walsh: Why was there no uproar about women’s golf’s alliance with the Saudis?Ladies European Tour was floundering on the edge of oblivion until Saudi Aramco gave financial supportMon Sept 19 2022 - 06:00
Aifric Keogh: ‘I was worried I wouldn’t have the fight in me’Rower speaks about competing against her friends, overcoming health issues and the quest for greatnessSat Sept 17 2022 - 06:00
