Antrim keep Kilkenny honest but Cats’ class wins the dayDarren Gleeson’s side are given a reminder of the gap they have to close to the top sidesSun May 16 2021 - 16:56
Kilkenny loom large as Antrim’s hurling odyssey gathers paceTwo seasons after scrape with Division 2A relegation, Darren Gleeson’s side are making wavesSun May 16 2021 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: And on the 147th day, football rose againThe return of GAA matches is another small Lego brick of life clicked back into placeSat May 15 2021 - 06:00
Weekend hurling previews: TV details, throw-in times and verdictsCan Antrim do it again? Big guns Limerick and Galway, and Tipp and Cork meetFri May 14 2021 - 19:24
Antrim ensure the first weekend of the 2021 season is one to rememberNeil McManus inspires landmark victory over Clare on return to Division 1Mon May 10 2021 - 06:00
GAA returns at last but lack of urgency to get bums back on seats is bafflingNothing summed up the lost months better than Ciarán Doyle’s incredible pointMon May 10 2021 - 06:00
Referees ‘going in cold’ and with new rules to contend with‘You’re going in with zilch done, no in-house matches, no challenge matches, nothing’Sat May 08 2021 - 06:00
An intercounty season five long months in the makingThe Covid-19 enforced shutdown finally ends as the hurling league breathes life into 2021Sat May 08 2021 - 06:00
‘All you have is now’: For Niamh Fitzpatrick, grief and sport fuel the desire to liveSport psychologist’s sister Dara was tragically killed while on Coast Guard duty in 2017Sat May 01 2021 - 08:00
Malachy Clerkin: If Japan can find a way the Olympics have to be worth savingGames seem to be the one event on the planet too big to put on and too big to cancelSat May 01 2021 - 08:00
Malachy Clerkin: The league has always been the league, and never more so than in 2021Patience will be the key word when it comes to players, referees and even counting subsWed Apr 28 2021 - 06:00
Leona Maguire is right at home in golf’s upper echelonsCavan native comfortable competing with the best and now an LPGA Tour win beckonsMon Apr 19 2021 - 05:00
How the GAA wove its way through the black summer of 1981Association had to tread lightly through volatile situation in which members were involvedSun Apr 18 2021 - 07:00
Trust trumps Zoom for Terry Hyland and his Leitrim exilesNo county has their players spread far and wide quite like the Connacht underdogsSun Apr 11 2021 - 08:00
Malachy Clerkin: The Golfmageddon has to end - please just let us playGolfers are getting twitchier by the day as the world’s longest shutout drags on and onMon Mar 29 2021 - 06:00
Ireland out of tune again in ‘embarassing’ defeat to LuxembourgStephen Kenny takes ‘responsibility for everything’ as World Cup hopes slip awaySat Mar 27 2021 - 22:53
TJ Reid well-placed to see physical and mental toll of lockdownsKilkenny hurler on believes people just want ‘leadership, clarity and a plan’ in pandemicSat Mar 27 2021 - 06:00
The Karate Kid: The martial arts classic that won’t kick the bucketIt’s silly, implausible and irresistible – and still going in the form of Netflix’s Cobra KaiTue Mar 23 2021 - 06:00
International sport is far more complex than simply ‘Us v Them’From CJ Stander to Irish dominance at Cheltenham, it’s more grey than black and whiteMon Mar 22 2021 - 06:30
Small band of GAA information warriors busy joining the dotsMayoGAABlog has fully searchable archive of Mayo results going all the way back to 1902Sun Mar 21 2021 - 10:30
‘Dad was only 62 when he died. My friend’s partner was only 37. Everyone’s only is their own’He finished his 40 years of work and a year later he was diagnosed with cancerSat Mar 20 2021 - 06:00
Unassuming Rachael Blackmore scales fresh heights to finally take centre stageIrishwoman becomes only the second jockey ever to ride six winners at a single CheltenhamFri Mar 19 2021 - 18:57
Cheltenham week should raise uncomfortable talk about gambling addictionMalachy Clerkin: Hidden problem is not discussed enough in public discourseMon Mar 15 2021 - 06:00
Unassuming number one Townend comfortable in his own skinChampion jockey clear favourite to be the leading rider at Cheltenham again next weekSat Mar 13 2021 - 01:00
White Men Can’t Jump is about so much more than basketballIn Ron Shelton’s hands, sport is the universal story-teller, the great revealer of characterWed Mar 10 2021 - 06:30
Benefits of sport far outweigh the Covid risks so why are kids still not playing?Lack of clear guidance means a generation of children is drifting away from sportMon Mar 08 2021 - 06:00
The story behind the amazing growth of women’s Gaelic footballThe average number of clubs per county has gone from 20 to 43 in two decadesSat Mar 06 2021 - 10:12
I, Tonya reveals a deeper truth than Harding’s level of guiltThe compelling film of the Harding-Kerrigan scandal gets to the heart of human frailtyThu Mar 04 2021 - 06:00
The sports fan would like to wake up now, thanks very muchThe whole point of being a sports fan has always been that sport was just there . . .Mon Mar 01 2021 - 06:00
Above Water: a crisply told story of surviving abuseTrish Kearney’s account of her abuse at the hands of George Gibney is powerfully toldSun Feb 28 2021 - 06:00
Push-and-pull between Tiger Woods and the machine kept us all raptNobody else could have become the most famous athlete on earth while playing golfWed Feb 24 2021 - 06:20
Just no room for Will O’Donoghue in All Stars teamVirtually no hard-luck stories this year, because who could you leave out?Mon Feb 22 2021 - 06:00
Minor failings and a football breakthrough: the making of Gearóid HegartyLimerick’s 2020 Hurler of the Year reflects on a game of inches with his dad GerMon Feb 22 2021 - 06:00
A text from Jack O’Shea caps off another stellar year for Brian FentonDublin midfielder was named Footballer of the Year again on Saturday nightMon Feb 22 2021 - 06:00
Reality revisited: A year on from when the GAA world shut downKevin McKernan and Conor McDonald were two of the players featured in our seriesSat Feb 20 2021 - 06:30
Frustration grows among organisers about return for youth sportAidan O’Rourke among 80 signatories to letter sent to Stormont ExecutiveTue Feb 16 2021 - 07:00
Conor McCann and Antrim get set to hit the hurling highway – once it opensJoe McDonagh player of the year looking forward to getting back on the pitchTue Feb 16 2021 - 06:00
All Played Out continues to play out three decades on from Italia 90Iconic sports books revisited: Pete Davies’s account still as visceral and rewarding as everMon Feb 08 2021 - 07:00
After a devastating acid attack, Tega Agberhiere has sights set on the topTeenager from Waterford is on a scholarship in the US and is focused only on the futureSat Feb 06 2021 - 06:00
The Dubs and money Q&A: Pat Teehan v John ConnellanThe Leinster Council Chairman and former Westmeath footballer debate GAA fundingSat Jan 30 2021 - 07:00
Glory days: How Eamon Dunphy brought Matt Busby to bookIt’s the book he’s most proud of, published just before Manchester United went megaSat Jan 30 2021 - 07:00
Tipping Point: Racing people need to stand up for their sportViking Hoard case is equivalent of someone tinkering with brakes of a racecarMon Jan 25 2021 - 07:00
Keith Higgins becomes the latest Mayo stalwart to hang up his football bootsDual star was the glue in Mayo’s miserly defence - his hurling career could yet continueSun Jan 24 2021 - 12:54
Richie Power: ‘To me, Kilkenny’s problem is at the roots’Former star forward believes the Cats have been left behind at underage levelSat Jan 23 2021 - 06:00
Eamonn Ryan’s legacy teaches us that things do change and get betterFormer Cork women’s manager turned the team into a relentless winning machineMon Jan 18 2021 - 05:00
Dublin’s James McCarthy goes back to basics with the same golden resultMidfielder reacquainted with Sam for an eighth time and won with Ballymun in 2020Sat Jan 16 2021 - 06:00
Tipping Point: Cork play soldiers in the sand as the Covid war rages onRonan McCarthy’s side looked removed from reality as they trained on the beach in YoughalMon Jan 11 2021 - 06:00
Tom Parsons thankful for the journey as he bids goodbye to the big stage‘My whole sporting career has taught me so much’ says long-serving Mayo stalwartSat Jan 09 2021 - 06:00
Con O’Callaghan finds his place and excels in historic Dublin teamA ding-dong battle with Oisín Mullin saw both men come out with credit in the bankMon Dec 21 2020 - 06:30
James Horan takes positives but Mayo’s old sins came back to haunt themIn four of their last six All-Ireland finals the opposition’s first score has been a goalSun Dec 20 2020 - 14:22
