Ahead of his 100th cap, there might not be a more loved Ireland rugby player than Keith EarlsMunster winger presumed as recently as April that this day would never comeWed Aug 16 2023 - 05:00
Ireland camp remaining coy about Jack Conan’s injury progressJeremy Loughman has been drafted in as cover for Dave Kilcoyne but no update on whether Conan’s foot injury is a long-term worryTue Aug 15 2023 - 17:50
Football Review of the Year: Footballer of the Year contenders, Game of the Year, highs and lowsOur panel look back on a championship which failed to fully ignite but had moments of high drama and qualityMon Jul 31 2023 - 13:01
In possibly his last game for Dublin, James McCarthy shows why they got the gang back togetherThis All-Ireland was the ultimate One Last Job - it might be the last time we see some of the legends of the gameSun Jul 30 2023 - 20:50
Dublin get the gang back together to bring Sam Maguire back to the cityJames McCarthy hails his ninth All-Ireland title as the most special he has ever wonSun Jul 30 2023 - 20:37
Dublin hold nerve to see off Kerry in frenzied All-Ireland final endgameDessie Farrell’s side had more right answers after intense decider at Croke ParkSun Jul 30 2023 - 17:49
Dublin or Kerry? Our experts give their verdict on the All-Ireland football finalThe Irish Times GAA staff – plus special guest Cora Staunton – tease out the big questions that will decide the finalSun Jul 30 2023 - 06:00
Ireland’s luck was out with the World Cup draw but the tournament told them the scale of the jobWherever this team goes now, they’ll always have those 44 minutes on Wednesday against Canada to build onSun Jul 30 2023 - 06:00
It wasn’t a vintage All-Ireland, but Dublin and Kerry can deliver a grandstand finishThe one thing we can be sure of is that neither side will sit back and wait for a slow deathSat Jul 29 2023 - 06:00
The All-Ireland football final: By the numbersDublin have had 11 different goalscorers in this campaign, Kerry have had sevenFri Jul 28 2023 - 17:21
Ireland pay highest price for failure to apply the killer touch at World CupVera Pauw’s side weren’t able to make enough of the times they were dominant against Canada in the first halfWed Jul 26 2023 - 18:28
History-makers Limerick complete the four-in-a-row with dominant win over KilkennyJohn Kiely’s side put on a phenomenal second-half display to turn a nicely-poised final into a nine-point beatingSun Jul 23 2023 - 21:04
Another 30 points in a final as rampant Limerick have only history to play against nowFor the fourth All-Ireland final in a row, they’ve put up 30 points - only the greatest Kilkenny team had ever so much as done it once beforeSun Jul 23 2023 - 20:47
All-Ireland Hurling Final: By the numbersHegarty aiming to complete an amazing scoring sequence for the fourth year in a rowSun Jul 23 2023 - 12:59
LeBron and Limerick remind us that greatness is to be revelled in while we still have the chanceWe don’t talk about John Kiely’s side the way we did about Kilkenny and Dublin in the recent pastSat Jul 22 2023 - 06:00
Eoin Murphy and Nickie Quaid: The two best goalkeepers in hurling face off in a final for the agesEoin Murphy and Nickie Quaid have followed similar career paths and will be crucial to the outcome this weekendSat Jul 22 2023 - 05:00
Ireland were doing so well until Marissa Sheva’s lapse in concentrationThere was no badness in the challenge but it was a stonewall penalty that ruined all of Ireland’s good work up to thenThu Jul 20 2023 - 16:00
Chrissy McKaigue did as much as he could to stop David Clifford but Kerry’s marvel found a wayDerry came so close to making the final but a trio of killer wides in the second half were the differenceSun Jul 16 2023 - 20:49
Thank the GAA for Ireland’s Women’s World Cup soccer starsAmber Barrett, Niamh Fahey and many more of the Ireland squad come from a Gaelic football backgroundSun Jul 16 2023 - 08:00
Down the stretch, Dublin showed exactly why they got the gang back togetherWith Brian Fenton, Jack McCaffrey, Paul Mannion to the fore, they outscored Monaghan 1-5 to 0-1 after the hour markSat Jul 15 2023 - 21:40
Dele Alli’s interview is astonishing – what a pity it had to be sponsored by a gambling companyGary Neville handled the whole thing with intelligence and empathy but SkyBet’s constant ads sounded a bum noteSat Jul 15 2023 - 05:00
The Monaghan man who brought the GAA to Dublin’s north inner-city When Brendan Crawley was a teacher in Dorset Street in the 1970s, he set up Matt Talbot GFC and opened up a portal to the worldSat Jul 15 2023 - 05:00
Braying donkeys fail to shine a light on GAAGO - or on very much of anything reallyCommittee hearing was supposed to be about the future of sports broadcasting but got mired in the usual parish pump nonsenseWed Jul 12 2023 - 20:29
Kilkenny through to All-Ireland final as Clare fall into a pothole they dug for themselvesBy sacrificing a forward, Brian Lohan’s side paid far too much respect to the Leinster champions and ended up with too much to do in the second halfMon Jul 10 2023 - 05:00
All-Ireland hurling semi-final as it happened: Limerick blitz Galway to make finalMonstrous second-half display leaves John Kiely’s men on course for the four-in-a-rowSat Jul 08 2023 - 21:05
After a few dull years it’s about time All-Ireland hurling semi-final weekend thrilled us againAs Limerick have come back to the pack the other three counties surely arrive in Croke Park thinking ‘why not us?’Sat Jul 08 2023 - 05:00
History echoes for Limerick as they try to replace the irreplaceable Declan HannonWill Kyle Hayes line out at 6 in Saturday’s semi-final, or will Cian Lynch perform the kind of switch made famous by Éamonn Cregan in 1973?Fri Jul 07 2023 - 17:17
Mayo people will put up with a lot but they won’t accept meek surrenderThe Weekend That Was: Kevin McStay was probably correct that it hadn’t been a bad season, but the assertion was a little tin-eared given the ritual slaughter that had just taken placeMon Jul 03 2023 - 15:46
Malachy Clerkin: Echoes of 2019 as Dublin crush Mayo straight after half-timeA game that looked to be in the balance at the break swung for the Dubs in the space of just five minutesSun Jul 02 2023 - 21:29
On a war footing, Kerry signal intent with bullish victory over TyroneEven with David Clifford on an off-day, Kerry only took an hour to bury the idea that this is a wide open championshipSat Jul 01 2023 - 19:14
Final eight teams bring flaws and inscrutable mysteries - but no big scary beastDublin and Kerry are the All-Ireland favourites but either - or both - could easily crash out this weekendSat Jul 01 2023 - 05:00
Colm Reape is well suited to the goalkeeping psychodrama of Mayo v Dublin matchesA converted full-forward, Reape only started life as a GAA goalkeeper for his club in 2020Sat Jul 01 2023 - 05:00
Armagh and Monaghan rivalry a competitive affair devoid of emnityBoth counties are akin to boxers staring each other down at the weigh-in before sharing a cab back to the hotelSat Jul 01 2023 - 05:00
World Cup journey starts to feel very real for Vera Pauw’s Ireland squadAll 23 players are given their official jerseys at presentation event in UCDThu Jun 29 2023 - 17:05
Conor McCarthy drills the winner as Monaghan outlast Kildare to reach All-Ireland quarter-finalGlenn Ryan’s side missed four goal chances to keep Monaghan alive and dangerousSun Jun 25 2023 - 11:42
Endgame frailties a source of real concern for MayoOpposition teams finding encouragement in McStay’s side’s costly failure to close out games they seemed to have in their handsSun Jun 25 2023 - 06:00
Can’t See, Can’t Be was the easy bit - the next step for women’s sport is much trickierThe women footballers and camogie players who drew their line in the sand this week deserve betterSat Jun 24 2023 - 05:00
Sport in Modern Irish Life by Paul RouseThis is a collection of 47 essays, musings, observations and yarns, and if one doesn’t grab you there’s another one coming right behind itTue Jun 20 2023 - 04:15
Stephen Kenny has depleted his benefit-of-the-doubt reserves with fansSomething has shifted in the support for the Ireland manager - it’s going to be so, so hard for him to shift it backMon Jun 19 2023 - 22:26
Malachy Clerkin: Rory McIlroy has somehow become a byword for losingThere will come a day when we don’t have to stay up late to grab a slice of the McIlroy action - what a dreadful prospect that isMon Jun 19 2023 - 13:38
Sunday GAA: Frantic finishes around the country plunge an adrenaline syringe into the heart of the championshipWins for Kildare, Cork, Armagh and Tyrone light a fire under the summer as jeopardy finally takes holdSun Jun 18 2023 - 21:12
Armagh top the group as injury-time free from Rory Grugan secures victory over GalwayShane Walsh misses a later chance to equalise as Kieran McGeeney’s side progress straight to the quarter-finalsSun Jun 18 2023 - 19:01
Football championship 2023? Let’s talk negativity and the apocalyptic misery of the fare on showGavin Devlin and Kieran Donaghy explain how the game is being played at the top level in 2023Sat Jun 17 2023 - 06:00
Thirty-three things to do in the 33 days until the women’s World Cup beginsSticker books and wallcharts, praying and spoofing - there is much to be done in the coming monthSat Jun 17 2023 - 05:00
Malachy Clerkin: Ireland chase shadows on dispiriting night in AthensGus Poyet’s Greece could not have imagined a more comfortable 2-1 victoryFri Jun 16 2023 - 21:58
Clare can find solace in defeat, as the numbers don’t add up for LimerickThe All-Ireland champions eked out another win and will enjoy the four weeks off - but they may not fancy meeting the Banner againMon Jun 12 2023 - 15:44
Rian O’Neill red card the difference as Tyrone keep Armagh at arm’s lengthKieran McGeeney’s side left to rue first-half sending offSat Jun 03 2023 - 21:38
Toothless Dublin look like a team waiting on a slow deathNever mind the Death of Football, the notable thing about Roscommon’s possession game is that Dublin had no answer to itSat Jun 03 2023 - 05:00
Manchester United have to win the FA Cup final to preserve the unique worth of the 1999 trebleNeither the club nor the competition means a lot to me any more – but the thought of City doing the treble has awakened a dormant geneSat Jun 03 2023 - 05:00
Malachy Clerkin: Unpopular opinion - I miss the officeThe new arrangements have, on the whole, been a positive development in the lives of people. But the pure idle osmosis of being in rooms with people is hard to replicate at homeMon May 29 2023 - 05:30
