‘There’s no control in games anymore’: Darragh Ó Sé, Dean Rock and Conor McManus chat about the 2025 All-IrelandDonegal’s kickers, Kerry’s midfield, the unreasonable demands of a condensed season - our football columnists run the rule over the summer aheadSun Apr 06 2025 - 06:01
For once hoping the championship will produce good football doesn’t make you a prize idiotThe FRC’s rules changes have not just changed the game they’ve made it one of the most open championships in yearsFri Apr 04 2025 - 20:10
Rory McIlroy at The Masters: Brace for the next chapter in one of Ireland’s greatest sporting sagasFrom his first Masters appearance in 2009, McIlroy has always been the talk of the place, whether in contention or bombing outSat Mar 29 2025 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: Paul O’Connell deserves better than the hospital pass thrown to him by the LionsIreland have been generous in waving their coaching staff off to Australia, leaving the interim boss with a critical summer assignmentFri Mar 28 2025 - 16:01
The Good, The Bad and The Two-Pointers: A county-by-county guide to who got what from the National Football LeaguePromotions, relegations, league finals made (and avoided) – there was something for everyone in the 2025 leagueMon Mar 24 2025 - 15:45
National Football League as it happened: Mayo and Kerry reach the final, Tyrone and Derry relegatedMonaghan and Roscommon secure their return to Division One, as Offaly and Kildare join Division Two Sun Mar 23 2025 - 18:46
Malachy Clerkin: Madcap Sunday finish is just another indignity heaped upon the 2025 national leaguesIt would have made sense to push the end of the hurling league back to next week and let the fooball breathe but instead it’s a blitz finishSat Mar 22 2025 - 06:00
Conor McManus: ‘The pain was so bad I knew I wouldn’t be able to make it back to the house’One of the modern greats of Gaelic football reflects on his career with Monaghan ahead of starting a new column for The Irish Times in Championship 2025Sat Mar 22 2025 - 06:00
Ireland player ratings: Ryan Manning and Troy Parrott stand out in away win over Bulgaria Heimir Hallgrímsson’s selections work out well, with Finn Azaz providing an X-factor in first-leg victoryThu Mar 20 2025 - 22:23
Efficient Dublin take the spoils as Galway endure a wasteful night’s shootingPádraic Joyce’s side matched the home team in most areas of the pitch except the one that matters mostSun Mar 16 2025 - 09:25
Donald McRae: ‘Boxing makes me feel so f**king alive. I wanted that back because I didn’t want to wallow in grief’The South African sports writer explains why he wrote what he says will be his final boxing bookSun Mar 16 2025 - 07:42
Malachy Clerkin: Relax! This is not the end of an era for either Liverpool or the Ireland rugby teamOn the back of defeats to French teams last week, there was a mad dash to declare the end of two teams that are actually fineSat Mar 15 2025 - 06:00
Cheltenham 2025 day two: Marine Nationale wins the Champion Chase – As it happenedCheltenham 2025 day two: Follow all the updates from day two of the racing festival which has seen an emotional win for the former mount of the late Michael O’SullivanWed Mar 12 2025 - 17:33
Cheltenham Day One: Constitution Hill and State Man both fall to hand Golden Ace the Champion Hurdle Huge shock in the feature race of the day as Jeremy Scott’s 25/1 winner outlasts them allTue Mar 11 2025 - 17:46
Louis Bielle-Biarrey makes up for loss of Antoine Dupont with some sorcery of his ownThe leggy French winger conjures up two tries to make light of the absence of his injured captainSun Mar 09 2025 - 06:00
Fabien Galthié: ‘We feel bad for Dupont. In terms of the action, in my opinion it was reprehensible’ France have cited Tadhg Beirne and Andrew Porter for the incident that injured the French captainSat Mar 08 2025 - 18:30
Malachy Clerkin: Cheltenham’s thrill is gone as the best stories are replaced by the betting, the betting, the betting Why would you care how many winners Willie Mullins or JP McManus add to their already huge total this week?Sat Mar 08 2025 - 06:00
Young guns like Darragh McCarthy give Tipperary the start they needGreen shoots as Liam Cahill hands out 10 debuts in campaign to date as Tipperary lead hurling’s top flightSat Mar 08 2025 - 06:00
Jim McGuinness: ‘We will not be thinking about the league final. We will be thinking about what’s best for us'As the leagues come to the decisive weeks, teams start to consider whether it’s worth their while trying to win silverwareSun Mar 02 2025 - 19:00
Grandstand finish by Donegal saves tired display and leaves Derry in major relegation trouble Michael Murphy’s second-half performance provides spark for Jim McGuinness’s sideSun Mar 02 2025 - 17:42
Niall Ó Ceallacháin leaving no stone unturned in search for new era of Dublin hurlersDivision 1B the perfect playground to allow fresh talent to cut their teethSun Mar 02 2025 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: Manchester United’s woes will turn the spotlight on Ruben Amorim before longFive wins in 16 league games is the worst start of any post-Fergie United manager - sympathy for him isn’t limitlessFri Feb 28 2025 - 19:00
Derry’s kick-out was demolished but pretending it was about who wanted it more won’t do them any goodArmagh’s kick-out variation against Mayo showed it doesn’t need to be such a lotteryMon Feb 24 2025 - 14:18
Seán Bugler and Brian Howard exceptional as Dublin swat Derry aside with 11-point winDessie Farrell’s new side taking shape but league champions had very little to offer in one-sided contestSat Feb 22 2025 - 21:59
Dermot McCabe has a tricky task managing Westmeath and working for the Cavan county boardCavan’s best player for the past 50 years takes on his former county and current employers in a relegation four-pointerSat Feb 22 2025 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: Irish rugby should lean into the arrogance angle, at least while it still canUnvarnished truth is that any crowing we’re doing is mostly in jest – we presume this moment of success will pass before longFri Feb 21 2025 - 17:00
Stephen Bradley: ‘After I got stabbed, I messed around for a year. I was angry’Shamrock Rovers manager talks about underachieving in his playing career, fixing broken people, and his 10-year-old son Josh’s battle with leukemiaSat Feb 15 2025 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: Most of the new football rules work well enough without allowing goalkeepers the run of the placeGerrymandering the pitch so that the attacking team have an automatic overload is unfair and unnecessaryFri Feb 14 2025 - 19:00
Malachy Clerkin: In this Trump reality there’s a bad moon rising - it’s already clear sport won’t be a havenThe days when we could turn to sport to get away from the serious news are going to be few and far betweenSat Feb 08 2025 - 06:00
Mason Melia’s Spurs move could change Irish transfers forever but there is still a long road aheadFor the gifted St Pat’s teenager on his way to the Premier League, everything has changed and nothing has changedFri Feb 07 2025 - 10:00
Five things we learned from the GAA weekend: Player and referee fitness is tested by new rulesGalway show ingenuity; a new Limerick; goalkeeper overlaps are concern; Carlow hurling’s great dayMon Feb 03 2025 - 11:24
Watching England scramble for positives after losing to Ireland will never not be enjoyableFor generations, Irish teams talked up losing displays - the shoe being on the other foot still feels weird but will never feel oldSun Feb 02 2025 - 06:00
Once Ireland cut out the sloppy mistakes, England could not live with themSecond-half display bodes well for the rest of Six Nations but messiness of opening period served warningSat Feb 01 2025 - 19:32
A year on from having a stroke, Feargal Logan’s life has changed but he counts himself very luckyHaving lost his midfield partner Jody Gormley to cancer in 2024, the former Tyrone co-manager knows all too well the fragility of life and healthSat Feb 01 2025 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: Shane Walsh finds quirk in new rules to show FRC’s work is nowhere near doneIt doesn’t feel like it makes sense that Armagh’s breach of the 3v3 should result in Walsh with a two-point free in front of the postsMon Jan 27 2025 - 14:45
After a fortnight of tragedy, Conor Loftus slots a last-minute penalty to win Crossmolina the All-IrelandA game delayed by two weeks because of the death of his fiancee is decided by the Mayo forward’s coolness under pressure, sparking hugely emotional scenes in Croke ParkSun Jan 26 2025 - 19:56
GAA live scores: Updates from across the National Football and Hurling LeaguesNFL Division One clash between Kerry and Donegal postponed due to Storm ÉowynSun Jan 26 2025 - 17:35
Year Zero for football as FRC’s new rules are put to the testTeams nationwide must adapt as quickly as possible to the new regulations and it’s going to be fascinating to see how it all shakes outSat Jan 25 2025 - 06:00
NHL Division 1A and 1B: County-by-county guide to how the hurling league will play outLimerick and Cork look most likely to duel it out for silverware, Wexford will likely struggle to stay in the top flight, Dublin and Waterford will be gunning for promotionSat Jan 25 2025 - 06:00
Storm Éowyn can’t destroy Connacht GAA’s ambition – Prenty’s Tenty will rise againThe Air Dome is a unique kind of west of Ireland miracle and though John Prenty and his staff stayed until 2.30am on Thursday night to try and save it, the storm ripped through itFri Jan 24 2025 - 15:45
NFL Division Two: Roscommon have firepower to go back up as Westmeath look in troubleMonaghan drop down to the second tier for the first time in a decadeThu Jan 23 2025 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen make this an unmissable NFL playoff weekendImpending battle between quarterbacks for the Ravens and Bills enables season’s two most exciting players to face offSun Jan 19 2025 - 06:00
The stars have aligned for a Darragh Canavan-Con O’Callaghan showdownOut of half a century of All-Ireland club finals it’s difficult to pick one when you had two of the game’s absolute elite forwards facing off in the biggest club game of the yearSat Jan 18 2025 - 06:00
St Lachtain’s and Watergrasshill make the most of their day in Croker to take home All-Ireland titlesThe Junior and Intermediate club hurling finals are the GAA with its nail polish scraped off, but the four teams served up a couple of crackersSun Jan 12 2025 - 18:37
Some threw toilet rolls - others, sausages. How it might look if you were a fly on the wall at Mack Hansen’s Media TrainingThe Connacht and Ireland winger has to sit through a session along with all his team-mates to learn the fine art of boring reporters to tearsSat Jan 11 2025 - 06:00
‘A gorgeous time for referees’: Gaelic football managers open to learning on the hoof as new rules kick in Handing the ball back to opponents may prove to be a step too far for someSat Jan 11 2025 - 06:00
‘I make a mark in the grass with my foot as I go.’ How GAA groundstaff line pitches for new football rulesThe FRC proposals mean the country’s 3,200 pitches will have their first new markings since the small arc came in 30 years ago - and they only have three months to get it all doneFri Jan 10 2025 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: Whatever anyone thinks about Rory Gallagher, the GAA president should not be influencing Naas GAA’s coaching choicesJarlath Burns has brought huge energy to the role since he took over last February, but his intervention at the Kildare club is an unprecedented overreachTue Jan 07 2025 - 20:36
‘I don’t think I’ll ever get over that’ - Shane Ryan reflects on what might have been and swims onA bronze medal at the recent World Championships showed the Irish swimmer’s remarkable ability to put Olympics disappointment to one sideSat Dec 28 2024 - 06:00
From Bryson to Jurgen to Raygun: The A to Z of 2024′s weirdest and wildest sports storiesSport is about so much more than who won and lost and in the 12 months just gone – it gave us a non-stop stream of chancers and characters away from the podium placesSat Dec 28 2024 - 06:00
