Malachy Clerkin: Looking for compensation when a player goes to the AFL is a terrible idea for the GAA
It’s understandable that a county like Kerry is annoyed at losing young players to Australia but once you start extracting a price for footballers, you turn them into tradeable commodities
From missing out on the Olympics to winning an AFLW title, nobody had a year like Vikki Wall
The Meath footballer came close to making the cut in rugby Sevens just nine months after taking up the sport but used her disappointment to go back to Australia intent on ending 2024 on a high note
Malachy Clerkin: Ireland can have no complaints as they could not take their chances when it mattered
Eileen Gleeson’s side didn’t die wondering about Euro 2025 but a petulant night from Katie McCabe wasted a lot of energy
Sports Books of the Year: Conor Niland’s The Racket the best in a year dominated by autobiographies
Johnny Sexon, Joe Canning and Richie Hogan all have highly readable offerings and Miguel Delaney’s book on the hijacking of modern football is not to be missed
Malachy Clerkin: Whatever happens tonight, Na Fianna will celebrate it. What else would we do?
Turns out you don’t know you belong to a club until the club gets fitted for a black hat and people start taking potshots at it
A fleeting moment: How to take the perfect sports photograph
Award-winning photographer James Crombie explains how he got three of his favourite shots
Malachy Clerkin: Ireland can’t afford to miss the women’s Euros - once momentum is lost, it’s hard to get back
Women's soccer team must heed the lesson of their rugby counterparts from a decade ago - if they don’t beat Wales in the play-offs, the sporting circus will move on
The bird-shaped obsession that drives James Crombie, one of Ireland’s best sports photographers
It started as a pandemic distraction but ended up producing probably the most famous photo the Westmeath man will ever take - the murmuration that went around the world
Ciara Mageean: ‘I just felt numb. It wasn’t even sadness, it was just emptiness’
The Down athlete reflects on the devastation she felt at having to pull out of the Olympics on the eve of the Games
Malachy Clerkin: Brian Fenton, the best midfielder of his era and one of the greatest ever
After arriving full-formed in 2015, the Raheny midfielder anchored Dublin for a decade – nobody could match his mobility, accuracy and general game sense
Malachy Clerkin: James McCarthy drove all that was good about Dublin, and they loved him for it
His defiance, athleticism and ability to sense when his team needed a rocket all combined to produce one of the greatest they’ve ever had
With 4,000 homeless kids in Ireland, why is the Minister for Housing trying to buy our votes with golf?
Darragh O’Brien clearly thinks there is no downside to him claiming credit for bringing the Open Championship to Portmarnock but it’s not a great look in the middle of the housing crisis
The agonising story of how two Irish sailors lost out on an Olympic medal
Robert Dickson and Seán Waddilove were in prime position to make the podium in Marseille but a split second decision cost them and meant they finished fourth
Des Cahill having the time of his life as Cuala’s footballers finally get their day in the sun
Traditionally a hurling stronghold, the southside club have made it to only their second Dublin football final where they take on near neighbours Kilmacud Crokes