Keith Duggan: Jury's out on grand Super 8 experimentHard to know if new competition will invigorate championship or kill it stone deadMon Jul 16 2018 - 06:00
Jim Gavin knows Dublin’s Super 8 road goes uphill after Donegal winTyrone’s scoring spree adds to sense that Omagh clash will define Group 2Sun Jul 15 2018 - 14:34
Football may not have come home, but then it never really leftDeep down, the English probably know that the past few weeks were a glorious blipSat Jul 14 2018 - 08:30
Keith Duggan: Super 8s will bring about scenes previously unimaginableControversial new format offers mouth-watering series of matches from todaySat Jul 14 2018 - 07:00
Have Galway found the perfect way to showcase Shane WalshFour years on from his startling arrival, Walsh is flourishing within the collectiveSat Jul 14 2018 - 06:00
Declan Bonner has achieved the unimaginable at DonegalManager has changed mentality of squad and transformed them into an attacking unitSat Jul 14 2018 - 06:00
England football team remains Ireland’s dark obsessionOur neighbour threatening to win a World Cup still raises the hackles of many IrishSat Jul 07 2018 - 07:00
Armagh slowly closing in on another shot at the big timeVictory over Roscommon would seal McGeeney’s men a coveted place in the Super-8sSat Jul 07 2018 - 06:00
Colombia could block England's ‘easy’ path to finalDecision to rest players could come back and haunt Gareth SouthgateSat Jun 30 2018 - 08:00
World Cup fans in Russia agree ‘this is nothing like I expected’Visitors to Russia’s host cities have responded to the local warmth and prideSat Jun 30 2018 - 05:00
Januzaj swings night of inconsequence to BelgiumGareth Southgate gets drawn into playing Russian roulette with his team’s chancesThu Jun 28 2018 - 22:27
Letter from Kaliningrad: A World Cup venue where no one caresEngland play their final group game in the Russian enclave which has a strange historyThu Jun 28 2018 - 06:00
Gareth Southgate refuses to indulge in Belgian waffleGaffe-free manager’s message is simple: England will go out to beat BelgiumThu Jun 28 2018 - 05:00
Iago Aspas earns Spain top spot after dramatic Morocco drawSpanish come from behind twice in Kaliningrad to set up last-16 clash with RussiaMon Jun 25 2018 - 21:37
Belgium drop big hint they are building something specialRomelu Lukaku and Eden Hazard both score twice in five-star rout of Tunisia in MoscowSat Jun 23 2018 - 15:19
Still time for Messi and Argentina to turn things aroundVictory over Nigeria now could see Sampaoli’s disjointed side grasp a lifelineSat Jun 23 2018 - 08:00
Russia 2018: Thanks Vlad for a World Cup full of contradictionsThis World Cup has shown that it’s possible to separate Putin’s Russia from the people living in itSat Jun 23 2018 - 07:00
Croatia keep Messi quiet and watch Argentina fall apartCroatia tear Argentina to pieces and leave them facing early group stage exitThu Jun 21 2018 - 21:19
Nizhny Novgorod letter: A city that came in from the coldMost fans have been sideswiped by how their prejudices about Russia have been stripped awayWed Jun 20 2018 - 21:49
Lionel Messi’s missed penalty hangs over ArgentinaSampaoli hopes to exploit magnetism of his superstar in crunch clash with CroatiaWed Jun 20 2018 - 21:21
Russian pubs not exactly hopping with World Cup feverIn Nizhny Novgorod there was no sense this was Russia’s ‘a nation holds its breath’ momentWed Jun 20 2018 - 05:00
German sophistication undone by Mexican passionMexico manager says they ‘played for the love of winning, not fear of losing’Mon Jun 18 2018 - 06:00
Mexico create seismic shock to take down holders GermanyHirving Lozano’s first-half goal shows up poor Germany defending in MoscowSun Jun 17 2018 - 18:49
Iceland expose Argentina’s feet of clayLionel Messi misses penalty as Iceland eke out famous draw in MoscowSat Jun 16 2018 - 16:27
World Cup: Moscow proves a surprise to travelling fansThe city is too big, too haughty, too fast to be knocked out of synch by a mere World CupSat Jun 16 2018 - 09:00
Iceland ready to fulfil World Cup destiny - Hu!Saturday’s match against Argentina the most important in Iceland’s historySat Jun 16 2018 - 05:00
Russia whipped into a frenzy as World Cup hosts find perfect pitchVladimir Putin shares his congratulations after five-star opening night performanceThu Jun 14 2018 - 20:39
World Cup fever grabs Russia as it prepares to open its armsDoubts and concerns about the host nation are being consigned to the peripheryThu Jun 14 2018 - 04:00
Laois end Carlow march as Leinster final with Dublin loomsLaois made to work hard for openings against organised and physical Carlow sideSun Jun 10 2018 - 18:21
World Cup 2018: Football the constant of Iran’s revolution yearsThe 1998 defeat of the US in France still holds a special place in Iran’s football folkloreSun Jun 10 2018 - 07:00
Hurling rhapsodies and football laments: it's an Irish summerIs life a joyride or a slog? Depends if you’re the Hurling Crowd or the Football CrowdSat Jun 09 2018 - 09:00
Meath showing signs of life ahead of stern Tyrone testThe Ulster men will be favourites but there’s a bit of quiet confidence in the Royal countySat Jun 09 2018 - 06:15
Cleveland remains the fitting backdrop to Lebron James’s magnificenceWorld’s best basketball player is operating at a supreme level for the sake of the CavaliersSat Jun 02 2018 - 09:00
Weekend GAA football previews: Galway expected to seal final placeKerry and Monaghan also favourites to book their place in provincial decidersSat Jun 02 2018 - 06:00
Gallagher determined to drive Fermanagh to new heightsEx-Donegal manager has already proved a success in his first season at the helmSat Jun 02 2018 - 01:00
Brian Cody concedes Galway ‘have an awful lot going for them’Galway manager says it is a testament to Kilkenny the way they restricted his team’s scoringSun May 27 2018 - 23:00
Galway provide day of reckoning for Kilkenny in SalthillLeinster hurling arrives on the Atlantic promenade as champions bare their teethSun May 27 2018 - 19:58
Your weekend Gaelic football previewsAll team news ahead of weekend’s matches in all four provincial championshipsSat May 26 2018 - 15:43
Sideline Cut: Milner’s authority may prove decisive in cauldron of KievVersatility Liverpool player is one of those players who seems to have been around foreverSat May 26 2018 - 09:00
Shoe on the other foot as Kilkenny challenge Galway’s statusFor the first time in Cody’s reign, Cats seeking to make a statement against GalwaySat May 26 2018 - 06:00
Defending Munster champions Cork are up and running‘Clare is over. It is ten past six. Forget about it. We now have to go to Thurles’Sun May 20 2018 - 19:52
Never mind the b*****ks, here’s Minister RossHe might've over-stepped the mark describing his colleague as “out and out” bollocksSat May 19 2018 - 09:00
Columba McVeigh: A lost life brought into sharper focusOliver McVeigh still searching for truth about his brother 43 years after he ‘disappeared’Sat May 19 2018 - 06:00
Mayo might just take Galway setback as good omenAll-Ireland football championship has had its first heavyweight bout of the summerMon May 14 2018 - 01:00
Galway beat Mayo but they are only setting out on the long roadGalway made it three Connacht championship wins in a row against rivals MayoSun May 13 2018 - 20:16
One sentence to sum up the entire football championship . . .Sideline Cut: less of a sports tournament than a four-month-long state of mindSat May 12 2018 - 08:00
Johnny Heaney ready to lead Galway fight against MayoNow in his fourth campaign, player has become senior figure in team full of potentialSat May 12 2018 - 07:00
Football Championship 2018: Ulster county-by-county guideKeith Duggan’s guide to the challenge from the northSat May 12 2018 - 01:00
Football Championship 2018: Connacht county-by-county guideKeith Duggan’s guide to the challenge from the west as Roscommon defend their crownSat May 12 2018 - 01:00
Championship 2018 Football: Time to play it again for SamSo which county can wrestle the coveted Sam Maguire from the hands of the Dubs?Sat May 12 2018 - 01:00
