‘Realistically Limerick probably are beyond worrying about league games’
Paul Browne admits his old team mates will be eager to avoid losing three in a row
Irish sailing’s Olympics campaign laid bare by new report
Irish Sailing welcomes review that outlines missed targets for athletes as well as successes
Cork continue building as they plan another assault on hurling’s summit
Keegan’s addition to coaching ticket a boost while Keane’s arrival increases options
Ireland need one more big performance to see off Argentina
Pumas will come to Dublin full of determination and intent on an upset
Johnny Watterson: Seconds out as Irish boxing’s civil war flares up once more
Boxing has a place for the marginalised but the association that runs it has learned to eat its own
Ian O’Riordan: Bursting this Tokyo bubble could be the biggest challenge of all
Assisting athletes to transition out of the Games is a vital part of the experience
Johnny Watterson: Malicious and damaging document is Irish boxing deja vu
Faceless attack on HPU head in run-up to Tokyo Olympics is from an old playbook
Gordon D’Arcy: Fans would benefit from a peek behind the iron curtain
Behind the scenes access is important as it helps create and keep a new fan base
Malachy Clerkin’s sports books of the year for 2020
Live sport may have gone missing during the pandemic but there was always plenty to read
Contract crux: Agents offering top Irish players to French clubs
‘We will have offers from clubs in France and the IRFU have not engaged or made any offers’
Ireland rugby squad working with mental skills coach
Gary Keegan to deal with ‘anxiety’ that damaged performance at World Cup
Arts Council’s role is now to provide income continuance and business survival
The Covid-19 crisis has put millions of independent artists and small companies around the world under existential threat
Crime and punishment and gorilla suits: this week’s theatre highlight
Brokentalkers’ sharp and stealthy new production asks us to examine our prejudices about the roots of crime, and the inhumanities of the prison system, offering no easy escapes
The Examination review: No easy escapes in Brokentalkers’ sly, provocative play
The irreverent company’s absorbing production interrogates the Irish Prison Service
Best theatre: You’ll dig Peat and be held captive by The Examination
A witty play about weighty matters; and a prison drama drawn from real life
‘I’m two months from homelessness’: the real lives of performers
Average weekly earnings of €494 for performers in the arts is two-thirds of the average in other sectors
Woman Undone review: Mary Coughlan’s acts of creation and destruction
The singer’s unconventional collaboration with Brokentalkers makes an unsettling art of suffering
Relaxed Jack McCaffrey taking every challenge in his stride
Busy newly-qualified doctor still enjoying the big occasions at Croke Park with Dublin
The pick of this week’s theatre
This week’s theatre highlights all involve stories that need to be heard, and those who are either literally and figuratively deaf to them
Going out or staying in? The best shows, exhibitions and TV to see this weekend
City of London Sinfonia at the NCH, ‘This Beach’ revived from Fringe, BBC’s ‘Howards End’
Rapids review: An artful antidote to the resurgence of HIV
The HIV infection rate in Ireland is twice the European average, thanks to shame and silence
Circus Animals’ Desertion review: Know the dancer from the cat
Brokentalkers’ surreal piece of dance theatre takes WB Yeats at his word
Dublin Fringe begins: reviews from the opening weekend
The opening weekend of the Fringe festival bursts into life with disturbing future visions and exhilarating burlesque
Brokentalkers break their own free-form traditions
In two productions, the maverick theatre group tackle big ideas about national identity, ‘which is really based on the idea that some people are better than others’
Tiger Dublin Fringe: five ways to choose what to see
From Panti Bliss and Hot Brown Honey to The Vaudevillians, here’s what you might pick
Billy Walsh foresees Michael Conlan thriving as professional
Boxing coach insists he won’t break his contract in America to return home
Transition from Olympic bubble not as straightforward as going home
Many athletes find normal life extremely difficult after the high of competing on greatest stage
Loss of Billy Walsh has led to implosion of Irish boxing
Katie Taylor’s defeat is the final straw for a sport that’s in crisis
Kathy Sheridan: Why Billy Walsh leaving is a serious matter for Irish sport
To the young men and women in Ireland’s 375 amateur boxing clubs, example is important
IABA reneged on agreement over Billy Walsh’s employment
August deal with the Sports Council worth €95,000 was withdrawn within days
If Ireland loses Billy Walsh’s services it’s a national disgrace
Irish sport, and Irish boxing, should do everything to keep the successful coach
Darren O’Neill appalled at prospect of Billy Walsh departure
Former Olympic boxing team captain says loss of coach would be ‘disgraceful’
Sanita Puspure returns to action in final trial at National Rowing Centre
Aim this season is to qualify boats for the Olympics through the World Championships
Calling the shots: A life in the day of a stage manager
It’s not actors whose way you need to stay out of behind the scenes at a theatre but stage managers, the key crew who subtly crack the whip from the wings
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