Limerick boss John Kiely: ‘Our performance today was embarrassing at times’Cats take advantage of careless Limerick to score three goals in the first half-hourSun Mar 24 2024 - 13:15
Kilkenny search for answers as Limerick aim to lay on another lessonIf Derek Lyng’s side are to end a painful losing sequence against Limerick in Saturday’s National Hurling League Division One semi-final, they will need young players to rise to the challengeSat Mar 23 2024 - 06:00
Kyle Hayes green for go for Limerick after two-year suspended sentence John Kiely already integrated Hayes back into the Limerick team prior to Wednesday’s sentencing following violent disorder convictionWed Mar 20 2024 - 17:00
Cork’s Alan Connolly is a rare and precious creature in the modern game - a goal scorer After his three goals against Wexford on Saturday Connolly has now scored a staggering 15 goals in 21 league and championship appearancesMon Mar 18 2024 - 15:00
For the Everyday Athletes of the GAA, craic is mined far from pints and taco friesWhat might have been characterised as intrusions not so long ago are regarded as smart and willing choices nowMon Mar 18 2024 - 06:00
Wexford given a stern reality check by free-scoring and dominant CorkAlan Connolly laid down a marker for the season ahead by registering his second consecutive hat-trickSun Mar 17 2024 - 12:35
Shefflin trying to devise a way for Galway to halt Limerick juggernautEngaging the services of innovative former Tipp coach Eamon O’Shea represents a smart move by Galway’s manager Henry ShefflinSat Mar 16 2024 - 06:00
Willie Mullins’s Cheltenham dominance may be boring, but we’ve never seen anything like him The Irish trainer‘s Cheltenham dominance may be boring, but we’ve never seen anything like himMon Mar 11 2024 - 06:00
Women jockeys on the racing industry: ‘Of course, we’ve progressed. But where are the rest of the girls?’From old-fashioned trainers to difficulties getting horses to ride, obstacles are left, right and centre for women in racingSun Mar 10 2024 - 06:00
Limerick run out winners over Tipperary thanks to superior firepower Late goal brought Tipperary back to within a point but there was no time left to look for levelling pointSat Mar 09 2024 - 21:41
The FAI will find somebody for the Ireland manager job. He won’t be the solutionAre we condemned to traipsing up and down the aisles of world football’s manager superstores, searching for a special offer?Mon Mar 04 2024 - 06:00
Cork beat Kildare to leave Lilywhites without a point in five gamesPowerful second half performance from Cork as they moved toward mid-table in Division TwoSun Mar 03 2024 - 18:55
A grand stretch: How GAA players are showing that age is now just a numberAware the end is in sight, veterans are making sure to squeeze every last drop out of their inter-county careersSat Mar 02 2024 - 06:00
Caoimhín Kelleher’s display proves he cannot stay in Alisson’s shadow foreverIf the Cork goalkeeper is to reach his potential, he needs to be first choice - at Liverpool or elsewhereMon Feb 26 2024 - 16:25
Five things we learned from the GAA weekendMonaghan heading for the drop, with Armagh and Donegal poised to get promotedMon Feb 26 2024 - 12:21
Woods-mania dying a slow death as PGA Tour loses its lustreLIV golf has bitten a chunk out of the PGA Tour as a spectacle or a soap opera and strong personalities now are in short supplyMon Feb 26 2024 - 06:00
Dublin have no answer to Limerick scoring machine as Kyle Hayes returnsJohn Kiely says he ‘never hesitated in picking’ Hayes, who awaits sentencing on a violent disorder convictionSat Feb 24 2024 - 21:11
Poor coaching, loss of dual stars and undeserved freebies - Dublin hurling’s lost decade ‘We were probably a bit embarrassed that we were piggy-backing on the footballers’ success...you should be winning All-Irelands before you’re offered those things’Sat Feb 24 2024 - 06:00
Football league talking points: Kildare and Cork left worrying over Sam Maguire statusGAA can surely live without adding VAR to the mix for marginal callsMon Feb 19 2024 - 15:42
Provincial championships must be reimagined as pre-season competitionsThe provincial championships are uneven, unequal, unseeded and fashioned in part by the luck of the drawMon Feb 19 2024 - 14:37
Rugby retains the unusual capacity to step outside its own realm and foster unblinking loyaltyHaving the best team in our history is clearly lubricating the numbers watching rugby but it is now an established and engaged audienceMon Feb 19 2024 - 06:00
Offaly’s Adam Screeney swimming against the tide of hurling’s modern power gameWill the gifted if slightly-built young Offaly hurler Adam Screeney be able to cope with the unprecedented physical demands of the modern game at senior level?Sun Feb 18 2024 - 06:00
Denis Walsh: Spare us the rhetoric — our GAA’s amateurism is long goneIf the association wishes to protect certain elements of its age-old ethos, then it needs to legislate for what has changedMon Feb 12 2024 - 06:00
John Donnelly’s late point sees Kilkenny home against Cork in unhinged affairKilkenny were nine points clear early in the second quarter before Cork got a hold in the gameSun Feb 11 2024 - 13:26
Passionate defenders of Cavan hurling still guarding the flame Three months after being threatened with expulsion from the league by the GAA’s CCCC, Cavan hurlers knuckling down to their task in Division 3ASat Feb 10 2024 - 06:00
Sport continues to take path of least resistance when it comes to world politicsAthletes left to battle their conscience as sports administrators and politicians equivocateMon Feb 05 2024 - 06:00
Calvin Nash slots in perfectly to Ireland’s wing and makes Marseille his playgroundFor days in the build-up to the France game, the Munster winger’s nerves played hell with himMon Feb 05 2024 - 06:00
Ireland’s brilliant performance against France epitomised by bold and brave Jack CrowleyEverything about this game was a gut-check for the new outhalf, and he glided over his mistakes to give a proper Test performanceSat Feb 03 2024 - 08:00
Johnny O’Connor: ‘It’s not good enough to just be a hurler any more, you need that edge’Former Irish rugby international and sporting ecumenist Johnny O'Connor is enjoying his most reaching fitness coaching role – this time with Galway's hurlersSat Feb 03 2024 - 06:00
Five things we learned this GAA weekend: Unpredictability of opening round strikes againNo change on the western front; McGuinness steadies the Donegal ship; Worth watching if Dublin stick with quick release; Fly goalies add to the thrills in TraleeMon Jan 29 2024 - 12:28
Smash ... Inflict ... Violence: Language around rugby shows both the heart of the game and the disease in its bloodJuxtaposition in Netflix documentary of Italian coach demanding physicality with Seb Negri’s serious injury poses plenty of questionsMon Jan 29 2024 - 06:00
Mickey Harte’s gamble pays off as Derry outlast understrength Kerry Frantic final quarter sees Kerry strike back with two goals only for McGuigan to win it three minutes into stoppage timeSat Jan 27 2024 - 19:34
Mickey Harte and Jack O’Connor always knew how to get under each other’s skin. Now they meet againHarte and O’Connor, who staged epic battles between Kerry and Tyrone, will share a sideline again this weekend, 20 years after the first timeSat Jan 27 2024 - 06:00
Denis Walsh: When it comes to money, the GAA must uphold distinction between need and greedThe furore over the mooted renaming of Pairc Ui Chaoimh is the latest evidence of the GAA’s conflicted relationship with moneyMon Jan 22 2024 - 06:00
Brian Hogan: ‘I didn’t harbour any aspiration of building a managerial career’Hogan’s playing career with O’Loughlin Gaels is mapped out in county finals. Now he is managing them in the All-Ireland senior hurling club finalSat Jan 20 2024 - 06:00
Kyle Hayes will learn of his fate on March 20th for two counts of violent disorderLimerick’s hurling season still up in the air as manager asks court to give hurler a second chanceFri Jan 19 2024 - 19:00
SuperValu Páirc has a ring to it all right, the ring of desperation in Cork GAA Páirc Uí Chaoimh debt of more than €30m leaves county board in no position to turn down naming rights sponsorshipTue Jan 16 2024 - 12:45
Everywhere you look in the world of sport now climate change is bitingFrom major events like the Olympics to your local golf club or junior soccer team being disrupted, the evidence is mountingMon Jan 15 2024 - 06:00
‘I thought I was going to be successful again’: The jockey who came back from the deadHaving baffled the medics by recovering from a fall that almost claimed his life, Brian Toomey has embarked on a new career as a trainerSun Jan 14 2024 - 06:00
Chris Hughton could be exactly the kind of ‘safe option’ Ireland need as managerThe vastly experienced current Ghana boss had been a path-finder throughout his professional football career as a player, coach and managerMon Jan 08 2024 - 06:00
St Brigid’s produce a late scoring flurry to edge past CastlehavenRoscommon champions had to do it the hard way against a defiant CastlehavenSun Jan 07 2024 - 18:15
Ties that bind prove extra strong in footballing heartland of Castlehaven West Cork club Castlehaven have a proud history and as Munster champions they now face Roscommon’s St Brigid’s in the All-Ireland semi-finalSat Jan 06 2024 - 06:00
All-Ireland SFC semi-final: St Brigid’s aiming to end Castlehaven’s tightrope walkMunster champions Castlehaven have survived some nailbiting clashes to date but Connacht champions St Brigid's impressed in the provincial final victory over formidable CorofinSat Jan 06 2024 - 06:00
Cian O’Neill on the long and winding road to training: ‘I just love it. Connection – it’s a very special word’For 20 years the car has taken O’Neill to Limerick, Tipperary, Mayo, Kerry, Kildare, Cork and Galway - as well as seven All-Ireland finals and nine provincial titlesSat Dec 30 2023 - 06:00
Sports Review 2023: In this golden age of Irish sport, the fallback of honour in defeat no longer existsIreland’s sportspeople used to be good at losing. Finally the ‘wee Tricolour’ has become a force to be reckoned withTue Dec 26 2023 - 06:00
Gordon Elliott’s relentless rise drives Willie Mullins on to new heights Gordon Elliott continues to go from strength to strength as he tries to match the phenomenal feats of champion trainer Willie MullinsTue Dec 26 2023 - 06:00
Sports Review 2023: O’Connor shoots the Déise down with quick-fire hat-trickCork captain Amy O'Connor took ten shots at goal and ended up with a total of 3-7 in an All-Ireland final display for the agesMon Dec 25 2023 - 06:00
Siobhán McCrohan: I’d failed enough, says rower of world-beating comeback After a shoulder problem forced her out of elite rowing for several years, Siobhán McCrohan became a world champion. What drove her?Tue Dec 19 2023 - 06:00
How the development of the modern sliotar changed the game of hurling The unseen work of people like the late Mossy Mullins led to the transformative impact of the modern sliotar and the rise of an intricate, short-passing gameMon Dec 18 2023 - 06:00
Denis Walsh: Putting up with the golf business is a soulful struggle for most players As the cases of many gifted Irish golfers show, the demands of professional sport can be a heavy albatross around young necksMon Dec 11 2023 - 06:00
