Hannigan and company braced for the annual uphill struggleTipperary’s midfielder knows they must pick up the pieces again following a disastrous league campaign and the departure of former…Fri May 25 2012 - 01:00
Nothing shocking about Longford's victoryLEINSTER SFC FIRST ROUND: Longford 1-10 Laois 0-12 : IT WAS reasonable to wonder in the build-up to this Leinster championship…Mon May 21 2012 - 01:00
Stage set for summer of swings and roundaboutsTwo things you need to know about Tomás O’Connor and his place in the world, both of them to do with his afternoon in Croke Park…Mon May 14 2012 - 01:00
How war in the Pacific brought madness to these shoresSAIPAN - TEN YEARS ON Roy and Mick had an argument and the entire country lost the run of itself – 10 years on, the only thing…Sat May 12 2012 - 01:00
'Cork were strong today, they were very good'IT MUST feel like a lonely road at times being a Cork footballerMon Apr 30 2012 - 01:00
Kildare kick on to claim titleKildare 0-16 Tyrone 0-11: A flurry of points in the closing 10 minutes was enough to secure Kildare their first piece of silverware…Sun Apr 29 2012 - 01:00
Dunne's fitness a big worry for TardelliEURO 2012: THE SLOWER-than-expected return to fitness of Richard Dunne was the most pressing matter on the mind of Republic …Fri Apr 20 2012 - 01:00
Mayo do their best to rouse summerA PRE-SUMMER sleepwalk of an afternoon in Croke Park yesterday, where the action came dropping slow and at times came not at …Mon Apr 16 2012 - 01:00
All too easy as Cork have stroll in the ParkCork 2-17 Down 1-12 THIS IS all becoming very habit-forming for CorkMon Apr 16 2012 - 01:00
McCartan regrets costly late errorsIN THE end it was all just a bit of housekeeping for Cork, although Conor Counihan is far too well-mannered to allow such an …Mon Apr 16 2012 - 01:00
Please, please, please, let me get what I want - to watch some golfTV VIEW: DAY TWO of watching the Masters but not watching the Masters (because the all-powerful blazers who run the Masters …Sat Apr 07 2012 - 01:00
Majorless Monty has to sit and suffer like us poor viewersTV VIEW: THE THING with watching the Masters is that you spend most of your time not watching the MastersFri Apr 06 2012 - 01:00
Harrington and Byrd under par - so are SkyTV VIEW: USED TO be the Masters was only fed to us in little bits and piecesThu Apr 05 2012 - 01:00
Old firm on top gives hint of summerGAELIC GAMES: FOR ALL the warp and weave thrown up by the 2012 hurling league, the final table tells the oldest story in the…Mon Apr 02 2012 - 01:00
Cats maul Galway to top divisionNHL round-up: Kilkenny will meet the winners of the Division 1B final in the Allianz hurling league semi-final after their 3…Sun Apr 01 2012 - 01:00
Gilroy emphasises importance of optionsGAELIC GAMES: WHEN THE candy-floss fog settled over McHale Park back in February and nixed the second half of the original stab…Sat Mar 31 2012 - 01:00
Eddie Jordan gets honorary OBEMOTOR SPORT: EDDIE JORDAN was sitting in a Lisbon café having a late lunch a couple of hours before Chelsea’s Champions League…Thu Mar 29 2012 - 01:00
GAA expect 45,000 to roll up for great Croker double-headerGAELIC GAMES: THE SPRING of Keats and Wordsworth never dawned like thisSat Feb 04 2012 - 00:00
Wales look to turn the page on that dark dayON THE Sunday morning after Wales went out of the World Cup last October, Alan Edmunds arrived in work and switched on his computer…Wed Feb 01 2012 - 00:00
Cooney stresses GAA not in favour of 'penning people in'GAELIC GAMES: GAA PRESIDENT Christy Cooney has said the association does not want to get to a stage where security fencing is…Wed Jan 25 2012 - 00:00
Garrycastle turn their focus to pals across the waterWHEN THE ground is soft and the sky is low, delicacy is never the order of the dayTue Dec 20 2011 - 00:00
'Probably my best sporting moment', says DolanYOU KNOW the years are turning to dust when someone as fresh -faced and dashing as Dessie Dolan is playing the role of seen-it…Mon Dec 19 2011 - 00:00
You don't need to be mad to work here, but it certainly helpsRACING: JOCKEYS ARE mad. We know this. We’re told it at every turn by every good soul who comes into contact with themSat Dec 17 2011 - 00:00
St Brigid's good enough to complete the jobBEFORE WE delve too deeply here, let’s take a moment this winter day to give a thought to Seán Murray, the ponytailed St Brigid…Sat Dec 17 2011 - 00:00
Many phases later, Rog still deliveringPROFILE: RONAN O'GARA: Fourteen years after his Heineken Cup debut, Ronan O’Gara is still deftly dictating playSat Dec 10 2011 - 00:00
The one Trap and Tardelli really wantedIRELAND HAVE played Italy three times under our grey old Italian manager and haven’t been beaten yetSat Dec 03 2011 - 00:00
Bilic and Co an ideal opening dishNOT THE worst draw for Ireland to get out of the pot of third seeds. Four years ago maybe, but not so much anymoreSat Dec 03 2011 - 00:00
Cox pleased to have laid down a strong markerPOST-MATCH REACTION: SIMON COX strolls through the mixed zone happy as a dad at a christeningWed Oct 12 2011 - 01:00
Determined walker chasing his goals one step at a timeATHLETICS: AFTER 21 of the 50 kilometres that made up Rob Heffernan’s attempt to qualify for the London Olympics a fortnight…Wed Oct 05 2011 - 01:00
'I think it will stand to our lads'GAELIC GAMES: THIS OLD game makes Anthony Daly pulse just by being what it is. Hairy, unpredictable, tetchy, tenseMon Aug 15 2011 - 01:00
A goodbye for now perhaps, but we're still nowhere near finished with FitzgeraldGAA : DAVY FITZGERALD shuffles into the press auditorium like a bomb blast survivorMon Aug 08 2011 - 01:00
'Whether you're up or down people will find fault'ALL-IRELAND SFC QUARTER-FINAL: IN THIS sort of situation, Conor Counihan’s default mode is a sort of resigned testinessMon Aug 01 2011 - 01:00
Stars should stick to Tweet nothings, end of storySIDELINE CUT: Media uncertainty on how to deal with Twitter turned it into a monster as throwaway musing have become serious…Mon Aug 01 2011 - 01:00
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the funniest old lady of them all?TV REVIEW: FEAR DOES a lot of low-down dirty thingsSat Jul 30 2011 - 01:00
Rematch between Kildare and Meath stirs the bloodGAELIC GAMES: THERE WERE plenty of ifs, ands, buts and maybes in the draws for the third and fourth round of the All-Ireland…Mon Jul 11 2011 - 01:00
Ryan left gutted but refuses to play the blame gameGAELIC GAMES: THE SMILES were rueful, the body language almost brotherly as Jason Ryan and Pat Gilroy bumped into each other…Mon Jul 11 2011 - 01:00
The physicality is back and Cody is smilingGAELIC GAMES: BRIAN CODY is in a teasing moodMon Jul 04 2011 - 01:00
Time to blow the whistle on blaming the refereeIT’S NOT OFTEN that the Tyrone Ladies football board have to sit down to draft a statement for the national media, certainly …Sat Jul 02 2011 - 01:00
Driven Daly still leading from the frontGaelic Games: THE PROBLEM with lighting up the sky is that everybody sees itSat Jun 18 2011 - 01:00
Geraghty almost provides script for a good yarnGAELIC GAMES: DAYS LIKE this cry out for a yarn. Something to rise it, to lift it above the habitual and the banalMon Jun 06 2011 - 01:00
Deciding to make a real differenceA DAY IN A LIFE: NEIL DOYLE, AIRTRICITY LEAGUE REFEREE: It’s a Friday night and schoolteacher and referee Neil Doyle is Drogheda…Wed May 18 2011 - 01:00
Enthusiastic administrator with a keen eye for detailDAY IN A LIFE: GARY KEEGAN, DIRECTOR OF THE IRISH INSTITUTE OF SPORT: Gary Keegan is absorbed by putting in place structures…Wed May 11 2011 - 01:00
Long and varied day par for the courseGOLF: The Clontarf pro has three jobs – primarily being a good golfer, then a good businessman and a good teacher as wellWed May 04 2011 - 01:00
Cody uses spring as a launch padGAELIC GAMES: FIRST NIGHT back at training, late 2001, Kilkenny begin the process of peeling themselves off the canvas where…Fri Apr 29 2011 - 01:00
Always on the road a racing certaintyDAY IN A LIFE: DESSIE SCAHILL, RACING COMMENTATOR: Grand National day on Monday was similar to any of the other 210 meetings…Wed Apr 27 2011 - 01:00
No time for the bluesDAY IN A LIFE SERIES: BERNARD JACKMAN, retired rugby playerWed Apr 20 2011 - 01:00
Páraic Duffy's Day One list at a time gets the job doneDAY IN A LIFE SERIES: PÁRAIC DUFFY, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE GAA: “I’d be an awful man for a list,” says Páraic Duffy as he gets…Wed Apr 13 2011 - 01:00
