David Gillick: ‘In sport, we still think of faster, fitter, stronger, show no weakness’Two tales of recent Olympians, one ending in triumph, the other tragedy, reopens thorny issue of mental healthFri May 05 2023 - 06:00
Ikem Ugwueru bringing his size and pride to Clare football The 23 year-old, in his first full season with Clare, is set for his first Munster football finalFri May 05 2023 - 05:00
Jason Foley’s pace a massive asset on his quick rise to the top with Kerry The All-Ireland-winning full back started out as a sprint hurdler which has unquestionably stood to him in his football careerThu May 04 2023 - 05:00
Dylan McHugh recalls his ‘best miss ever’ as Galway target Connacht final glory Corofin man played a big role in Comer’s key goal against Roscommon but still has memories of 2007 when Sligo upset the oddsThu May 04 2023 - 05:00
Around the coast of Ireland in three days: Tom Dolan embarks on record-breaking attemptFrom a farming background in Meath, the 36 year-old has developed into one of the world’s leading solo sailorsTue May 02 2023 - 18:30
Speed kills! Get over strength and conditioning in Gaelic footballWhen push comes to shove in any sport, whoever moves fastest finishes firstSat Apr 29 2023 - 06:00
Sonia O’Sullivan joins other giants of Irish athletics with Penn Relays Wall of Fame honourO’Sullivan joins Ronnie Delany, Eamonn Coghlan and John Treacy among others to receive honourThu Apr 27 2023 - 16:16
Referee Maggie Farrelly: ‘You see mad men and mad women going bonkers along the line’The Cavan woman has set a series of GAA refereeing firsts, and is still only beginningThu Apr 27 2023 - 05:00
David Clifford, the song and dance man of Gaelic football‘Being from Kerry, and not having won the All-Ireland in so long, there was a pressure on us’Tue Apr 25 2023 - 05:00
Clare senior footballer Ikem Ugwueru: ‘Being black, and Irish, is a very big thing for us’‘Back in Ennis, there’s young black girls and boys playing for Eire Og now. I feel like we’re doing a really good thing in this country’Tue Apr 25 2023 - 05:00
Michelle Finn leads Leevale to gold at National Road Relay ChampionshipsThe senior men’s race was ruled by an outstanding performance from Clonliffe HarriersSun Apr 23 2023 - 21:33
‘We were blown out of the water’: Dublin do historic demolition job on LaoisCon O’Callaghan, Colm Basquel, Lee Gannon and Ciaran Kilkenny scored the goals at O’Moore ParkSun Apr 23 2023 - 17:32
Stop! Turn Back! You’re running the wrong way!Through no fault of their own, 2,000 runners were left feeling short-changed at Sunday’s Great Ireland RunFri Apr 21 2023 - 19:00
Athletics Ireland hit with legal challenge to new running levyAssociation’s board pushed through the €2 ‘one-day licence’ without approval from its congressThu Apr 20 2023 - 19:31
Jerry Kiernan Foundation unveils list of athletes set for financial support in 2023Fund established to honour passion and insight that Kiernan, who died in January 2021, always brought to sportTue Apr 18 2023 - 20:01
Defending champion Evans Chebe wins Boston as Eliud Kipchoge runs his slowest marathonKipchoge lost his legs and his focus around mile 19, ending up sixth in 2:09.23Mon Apr 17 2023 - 18:40
Olympics Countdown: Five Irish athletes laying down markers for ParisWith one year and 100 days to go to the start of the Olympics, Ian O’Riordan looks at Ireland’s medal prospectsMon Apr 17 2023 - 18:37
Great Ireland Run: Athletics Ireland apologises as Phoenix Park 10k accidentally becomes an 8.5kResults declared null and void after participants are misdirected early in the courseSun Apr 16 2023 - 14:46
Rhasidat Adeleke becomes first Irish woman to break 50-second barrier for 400m Dublin sprinter clocks 49.90 seconds, taking half a second off her own Irish recordSun Apr 16 2023 - 13:34
Rhasidat Adeleke smashes another Irish record as she runs world-class 200m timeCompeting in Florida at the Tom Jones Memorial, the 20-year-old clocked 22.34 secondsSat Apr 15 2023 - 14:29
Winning the Hell of the North - still priceless among any sporting prizeIreland's Sean Kelly won it twice and Paris-Roubaix remains one of the most coveted and boldly contested titles in professional cyclingSat Apr 08 2023 - 10:00
Rhasidat Adeleke: ‘I just want to work harder, run faster, that’s what drives me on’It’s been a stratospheric journey from Tallaght to Texas for the 20-year-old Irish sprinter, who is on the fast track to becoming the new superstar of Irish athleticsSat Apr 08 2023 - 05:30
Training for a marathon? Check out our Dos, Don’ts and early targets Part 2: Why you should get into the habit of doing morning runsMon Apr 03 2023 - 05:00
Rhasidat Adeleke plays starring role in breaking of three US collegiate recordsIn all Adeleke raced five times in four different relay events, and Texas won them allSun Apr 02 2023 - 15:29
Jason Smyth’s extraordinary career unlikely ever to be matchedWhen it comes to the Paralympics stage, no Irish athlete has done more to encourage the next generationSun Apr 02 2023 - 00:00
Limerick advance to league final showing old appetite for destructionA promising first-half lead for Tipperary was ultimately reeled in with ease by All-Ireland championsSun Mar 26 2023 - 15:17
Zane Robertson’s new yarn is really just the same old story againAfter some elaborate lies to explain his positive test, the New Zealand distance runner is now banned for eight yearsSun Mar 26 2023 - 05:00
Paris Olympics the next major port of call for Ireland’s sailing eliteTraining day at Irish Sailing Performance HQ provides proper insight into the skill and physicality of the sportSat Mar 25 2023 - 00:00
National Football League permutations: Four teams vying to meet Mayo in Division One finalDublin and Louth face off for a ticket to the top flight, while Sligo, Leitrim, Laois and Wicklow can still reach Divison ThreeWed Mar 22 2023 - 05:00
Davy Fitzgerald content to head for the sun, not the hurling league knock-out stages2022 league champions Waterford fly to Portugal on Tuesday for warm-weather trainingTue Mar 21 2023 - 05:00
Rory Best: Ireland have ‘level of consistency and depth’ to really target Rugby World CupThe former Ireland captain says 2019 World Cup campaign was undone by key players falling out of formMon Mar 20 2023 - 19:28
Kilkenny fall over the finish line to book semi-final date with CorkCats huffed and puffed to eventually get past Waterford in messy contestSun Mar 19 2023 - 15:56
When we were kings: two great upsets in schools rugby never to be repeatedThe first and last non-fee paying school to win the Leinster Senior Cup, De La Salle got their breakthrough 40 years ago this weekendSat Mar 18 2023 - 05:00
Plenty still to play for in last round of Hurling LeagueLimerick chase semi-final spot while Westmeath and Laois prepare for relegation playoffThu Mar 16 2023 - 05:00
JD Bertrand of Notre Dame fame traces the link to Blackrock rugby American football team captain and linebacker is son of Jim Bertrand who captained Blackrock to 1981 Leinster Senior CupTue Mar 14 2023 - 20:17
Dick Fosbury, champion high jumper who invented the Fosbury Flop, dies at 76Oregon student won gold at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico and revolutionised his event with back-first techniqueTue Mar 14 2023 - 08:19
Rhasidat Adeleke going where no Irish athlete has gone beforeThe 20-year-old from Dublin is the first Irish athlete to win a prestigious NCAA sprint medalMon Mar 13 2023 - 05:00
Rhasidat Adeleke claims 400m silver at American college indoor championships Irish woman wins first individual medal ever in a sprint event for an Irish athlete at NCAA championshipsSun Mar 12 2023 - 09:19
Adeleke aiming to follow the trail-blazers at NCAA ChampionshipsDublin sprinter, still only 20, is one of the favourites to land the 400m title in Albuquerque this weekendSat Mar 11 2023 - 05:00
Gavin Noble: Ireland’s chef de mission for Paris not afraid to talk about medalsWith 500 days to go until the 2024 Olympic Games, the former Olympian triathlete is already stocking up on positivityFri Mar 10 2023 - 05:00
Wexford already turning to the championship after cruel and unusual league hammering Manager Darragh Egan insisting all the focus now is on the Leinster round-robinTue Mar 07 2023 - 20:31
So you want to run the Dublin marathon? Start here, with our Dos, Don’ts and early targetsNo other sporting event delights in the long countdown more than this classic distanceMon Mar 06 2023 - 05:00
Faraway, so close, Darragh McElhinney finishes just outside the medals in IstanbulThe 22-year-old left his effort a little too late, with Jakob Ingebrigtsen collecting European title number 11Sun Mar 05 2023 - 20:08
European Indoors: Israel Olatunde misses out on 60 metres finalDarragh McElhinney and Sarah Lavin progress through heats, and will return for the final sessionSat Mar 04 2023 - 17:50
Derry’s football evolution into a lean, mean, running machineIn a turn for the books, the Ulster champions are favourites to beat Dublin at Celtic ParkSat Mar 04 2023 - 05:00
Faster, higher, richer: how Irish Olympians won the funding lotteryRowing tops the money charts, which are now more than ever driven by medal successSat Mar 04 2023 - 05:00
Luke McCann left to suffer as Jakob Ingebrigtsen again makes winning look easyKate O’Connor places ninth in the pentathlon, won in a new world recordFri Mar 03 2023 - 19:45
Luke McCann survives 1,500m barge-fest in Istanbul as Andrew Coscoran misses outMixed fortunes for the Dublin runners as Jakob Ingebrigtsen sets up another double.Thu Mar 02 2023 - 20:06
Rhasidat Adeleke: ‘I’m still not a guru at the event, I am kind of learning’‘Every race I ran, there’s always been something wrong, and I always feel there’s a little more there’Wed Mar 01 2023 - 17:00
Sport Ireland announce €24m funding package for high-performance sport Money is chiefly aimed at preparing athletes and teams for next year’s Paris Olympics and ParalympicsWed Mar 01 2023 - 13:20
