St Martin’s don’t want winter to end as they build on decades of work to fly Wexford flag
Facing off against Ballygunner this weekend, the Martins are savouring the best days in the club’s history
Malachy Clerkin: Rory McIlroy is special because of his vulnerabilities as much as his victories
Nothing in sport in 2025 compared to the rollercoaster night watching the final round of the Masters at Augusta
From Tokyo to Istanbul and Croke Park: the top 25 moments of the year in women’s sport
World and European champions, record-setters and mould-breakers, Irish sportswomen had another stellar year
Scotstown finally win their Ulster title on the back of a phenomenal Rory Beggan display
Monaghan goalkeeper scores 11 points as his team falls over the line after an extra-time battle against Kilcoo
The Northern Standard recorded the childhood sporting careers of me and many others. Its closure is a sad day
After 186 years of publication, The Northern Standard will put out its last edition next week. What a sad, grim thing
Beyond Skorts: How Ireland’s sportswomen kept clearing impossibly high bars in 2025
Away from the rí-rá of the skorts debate, Irish women offered a bounty of sporting firsts in 2026
Charlie Smyth’s foot-perfect NFL debut has put Tadhg Leader’s kicking programme on the map
GAA player from Co Down’s journey to kicking for the New Orleans Saints began with a session in Carlow hosted by Leader in 2023
Malachy Clerkin: Shameful police reaction another wound inflicted on Hillsborough families
After 36 years of being lied to and gaslit, victims of the disaster deserve so much better
TV View: Zippy Fish left trailing in second as Munster flunk scrum university
The AFLW Grand Final was a bit of a shambles but their half-time entertainment was an idea worth stealing
From Mike Tyson to Boris Becker and DJ Carey – the best sports books of 2025
It is a vintage year for biographies, memoirs and deep dives into sport’s darker sides
Malachy Clerkin: Scrums are like Finnegans Wake – you either haven’t a clue or you spoof that you do
Rugby needs to do so much more to enlighten a baffled public as to why a retreating scrum concedes so many penalties
Malachy Clerkin: As the club industrial complex kicks in, this Ireland team has shortened the winter
Transfers, form, fitness: settle in for months of obsessing over the almost 40 players with a chance of making the squad in March
Troy Parrott gave us a chance to be innocently happy. Whatever happens from here, that lasts forever
Over the campaign, this Ireland side showed themselves to be all the things you’d want from a team representing the country
Malachy Clerkin: Ireland needed a get-right game and they got what they were looking for
Ireland finally looked in tune for the first time in the autumn internationals
Domhnall Nugent: ‘This guy messaged to say that after I talked about addiction, he went to the GP and it saved his life’
The St John’s and Antrim hurler has escaped drink and drugs and homelessness to turn his life around and win a county title