Cork SHC final: Jack O’Connor leads Sarsfields back to the top of the pileMidleton faced an uphill task after the loss of key players Conor Lehane and Eoin Moloney in the build up to finalSun Oct 19 2025 - 18:18
Andrew Porter: ‘I was lost, angry and missed my mum more than I thought was possible’ In his new book the Leinster and Ireland prop traces his once punishing self-criticism to his struggle with loss and grief as a boySat Oct 18 2025 - 06:00
Denis Walsh: Graham Lee’s hope and strength clear to see in impressive new documentary Nearly two years after a life-changing accident, the former jockey is drawing on some of the qualities that made him such a successful sportsman Mon Oct 13 2025 - 06:00
The rise of GAA super clubs has taken the romance out of the club championshipVarious county championships are dominated by a few clubs, who have almost professional set-upsSun Oct 12 2025 - 06:00
Savour this Golden Age of Irish golf as the future does not look as rosyOutside of McIlroy, Lowry and McKibbin, the last Irish player to win an event on the DP World Tour was in 2021Mon Oct 06 2025 - 06:00
Oisín Murphy: ‘Most of my destruction was done at home, getting drunk on my own’One of Europe’s top jockeys, in his new book Murphy admits to being a ‘deeply flawed young man’ in ceaseless conflict with himselfSun Oct 05 2025 - 06:00
Team Europe thought they held the moral high ground. In pro golf, there is no such thingIn his captain’s speech at the Ryder Cup, Luke Donald almost seemed to suggest money was a dirty wordMon Sept 29 2025 - 06:00
NFL brings riot of colour and noise to Croke Park as Steelers hold off late Vikings scoring raid Other sports fancy themselves as theatre but American football is pure sporting vaudevilleSun Sept 28 2025 - 20:08
Coming to Croke Park: Aaron Rodgers, US sporting great and castigated ‘critical thinker’The Pittsburgh Steelers player is among the best quarterbacks of all time but has attracted attention in recent years for leftfield pronouncements on a variety of subjectsSat Sept 27 2025 - 06:00
Denis Walsh: Patrick Horgan leaves a gaping hole that Cork will struggle to fillLongevity and durability set Horgan apart during his glittering intercounty careerWed Sept 24 2025 - 15:02
Lovely hurling a uniquely Irish game despite globalisation of sports‘Hurling lives here, a source of wonder to visitors, just like the Book of Kells or Newgrange. That doesn’t make the wonder any smaller’Mon Sept 22 2025 - 06:00
Pitch battle: In Dublin, the GAA is rapidly outgrowing its capacity to provide basic facilitiesWith land at such a premium, GAA pitches are increasingly regarded by local authorities as an inefficient use of spaceThu Sept 18 2025 - 17:44
Golf once refused to sell its soul to Trump. Now it has handed it to him for freeThe US president has always craved the approval of golf’s establishment – both for business reasons and for his vanityMon Sept 15 2025 - 06:00
From pony to horse and boy to man, Dylan Browne McMonagle is living the dreamDonegal rider stood out as a 12-year-old. A decade on, he’s closing in on champion jockey titleSat Sept 13 2025 - 06:00
Denis Walsh: GAA must take a leap on paying managers and deal with the consequencesPiety about amateurism belongs to a bygone eraMon Aug 25 2025 - 06:00
‘There was some pretty awful stuff going on’: Golf’s growing problem with fans heckling players Bob MacIntyre among players the experience coarsening of discourse in golfSun Aug 24 2025 - 06:00
Dodgy boxes are everywhere and that’s bad news for football as it heads for saturation pointWealth of options at piracy subscribers’ fingertips means big sporting events are losing their valueMon Aug 18 2025 - 06:00
Tom Brady has brought attention to Birmingham, and the shtick of a saviourThe former NFL star’s investment in the club may be measured in pence rather than pounds, but then his role is more ‘visionary’ than ‘operational’Sat Aug 16 2025 - 06:00
Team Europe ready to take sportswashing’s poster boy on board for Ryder CupThe Ryder Cup had a chance to rise above the venality of golf’s grubby power game. That opportunity has been spurnedMon Aug 11 2025 - 06:00
All-Ireland camogie final: Cork’s three-in-a-row dream unlikely to be stoppedGalway looking to improve their disappointing record in finalsSun Aug 10 2025 - 06:00
‘It’s so brilliant to see them hopping off each other’: How camogie moved the goalposts – againOf the four principal games in the Gaelic games family none has changed more profoundly than camogie since the turn of the centurySun Aug 10 2025 - 06:00
Now it’s clear who the real beneficiaries of the GAA’s split season areThe split season has consistently been portrayed as a triumph for clubs and club players. But the reality is different Mon Aug 04 2025 - 06:00
Paris Olympics, one year on: ‘It’s a very difficult pill to swallow. It probably always will be’Sports fans soon move on from the Games but for athletes, it is rarely so simpleSun Aug 03 2025 - 06:00
Cork must rise above groans of fickle fans and take heed of Jimmy Barry-Murphy’s wordsHistory tells us it is more than possible to bounce back from humiliating defeats on the biggest dayMon Jul 28 2025 - 06:00
The great David Clifford delivers his most complete performance when it matters mostDonegal had no answer for the greatest forward of all time with Sam Maguire at stakeSun Jul 27 2025 - 21:20
Donegal player ratings: Conor O’Donnell impresses at both ends but key men fail to make impactPlayers struggled as Donegal’s zonal defence was cut to shreds by Kerry at Croke ParkSun Jul 27 2025 - 19:04
Kerry’s hopes rest on the shoulders of a giant, but can David Clifford bear the weight?While some players may see it as a burden, the high king of forwards wears his crown lightly going in to his fourth All-Ireland finalSat Jul 26 2025 - 06:00
Ashamed to be seen in public just one year ago, Tipperary’s redemption story defies beliefStunning All-Ireland triumph was built on the ashes of disastrous 2024 campaignMon Jul 21 2025 - 16:40
There will always be incidents of outrageous wrongdoing when it comes to All-Ireland ticketsThere are never enough tickets to satisfy everyone who feels entitled to oneMon Jul 21 2025 - 06:00
Tipperary’s cannonball run delivers greatest of all prizes Savvy Tipp game plan frustrates and drains Cork in thrilling All-Ireland final Sun Jul 20 2025 - 21:34
Cork player ratings: Shane Barrett starts strong but too many fail to reach final crescendoWhen momentum swung Tipperary's way after the break, Cork offered little by way of replySun Jul 20 2025 - 18:37
Cork forwards carry a torch into All-Ireland final that was first lit by Fitzgerald, Fitzgibbon and HennessyRebel forwards lit up hurling in the early 1990s, but life was different for all three thereafterSat Jul 19 2025 - 06:00
Legend will become fact once more when Cork and Tipp meet in the ultimate superhero battle The two counties have always been partial to the stuff that makes myths, and Sunday’s All-Ireland hurling final could be a marvelMon Jul 14 2025 - 06:00
Jack O’Connor keeps making his case in Kerry court of opinionIn the 33 years since he first appeared as a selector for the county, the Kerry manager has shown an extraordinary capacity to absorb criticismSat Jul 12 2025 - 06:00
Roy Keane’s life has had many twists and turns, but his love for Cork never waveredKeane is in Cork this week for three sold-out evenings in conversation with Roddy Doyle. Earlier in his life, this would have been unimaginableMon Jul 07 2025 - 06:00
Tipperary edge past Kilkenny in game so wild even the scoreboard could not keep upNoel McGrath’s disputed point impacted Kilkenny’s real-time assessment of their needsSun Jul 06 2025 - 20:45
Kilkenny v Tipperary 2009-19: The greatest decade in the bitterest rivalry in hurlingSunday’s All-Ireland semi-final will be the first championship meeting of these familiar foes since 2019Sun Jul 06 2025 - 06:00
Alan Connolly comes of age in pitch-perfect Cork full-forward lineConnolly, Patrick Horgan and Brian Hayes claimed a collective 5-5 from play in Cork’s dismantling of DublinSat Jul 05 2025 - 21:29
Denis Walsh: Why Paul O’Connell thinks a sports psychologist will help Ireland get aheadHaving worked successfully with many athletes, Caroline Currid is expected to make an important contribution on Ireland’s summer tour Mon Jun 30 2025 - 06:00
Dessie Farrell on stepping down as Dublin manager: ‘I think it’s just come to a natural end’More retirements set to follow as Dublin require rebuildSun Jun 29 2025 - 15:01
Worth the wait: How Kieran McGeeney came through the criticism to show his managerial qualityMcGeeney has never lost a dressingroom despite some serious lows, and it may be the secret to his survivalSun Jun 29 2025 - 06:00
Efficient Tyrone dump out diminished Dublin The Ulster side were full value for their win as two-pointers played a vital role in quarter-finalSat Jun 28 2025 - 21:38
After years of illuminating the championship, Limerick couldn’t find the light switch against DublinAn all-out systems failure by Limerick allowed the Dubs to serve up a shock no one saw comingMon Jun 23 2025 - 14:35
Normalised breaches of amateurism rules is GAA’s ‘dodgy box’ challengeMeddling with hurling championship structures again to accommodate fourth-placed teams would be a grave mistakeMon Jun 23 2025 - 06:00
Another sunny day in Tipperary’s resurgent summer as they put Galway to the swordGalway appeared to have bottomed out. Tipp know how that feels. They made a new startSun Jun 22 2025 - 12:46
Eamon O’Shea helping Galway see the game in a different way The former Tipperary manager has since last season been providing his unique coaching insights to Galway, who hope to show the benefits in Saturday’s All-Ireland SHC quarter-finalSat Jun 21 2025 - 06:00
Amid all the hype, we seem to have forgotten that the Lions should beat Australia with easeTour down under will only be truly interesting if Andy Farrell’s men have a couple of off-daysMon Jun 16 2025 - 06:00
Cork hang on to hold off late Roscommon surge and keep their summer alive Cork were six ahead midway through the second half but ended up in a ferocious battle at the finishSun Jun 15 2025 - 12:15
Can Galway squeeze more from Shane Walsh and Damien Comer? Now is the time to find outIn the last two seasons, Walsh and Comer have started a mere four games together. Galway have carried that limp in their stepSat Jun 14 2025 - 06:00
Hell for Leather: new RTÉ series arrives just as football is brought back to life Timing for programme is perfect, given that Gaelic football seems to have broken a long-running cycle of self-rebuke and black introspectionMon Jun 09 2025 - 06:00
