Malachy Clerkin: David Clifford should win Footballer of the Year but it’s an extremely marginal call
For Ryan O’Donoghue to match the Kerry all-time great in a brilliant season is an incredible achievement in and of itself
What was said between Christy Ring and Mick Mackey? A new book details the lives of hurling’s heroes
Justin Nelson’s 1957 photograph caught two of the most important people in the explosion of hurling’s popularity
Michael O’Neill has no right to assume Ceadach O’Neill’s bloodline – and neither do we
The Northern Ireland manager is right to be annoyed by the FAI’s pursuit but he doesn’t get to decide anyone’s identity for them
Once an Olympian, always an Olympian – how every Irish athlete in history was connected on one website
A years-long project by the Olympic Federation of Ireland went live this week with profiles of the 1,067 to have represented Ireland at the Games
Annalise Murphy: ‘Juliette’s the one I think about constantly. I can’t imagine life without her now’
The 2016 Olympic silver medallist was back in elite competition this week just nine months after the birth of her daughter
If Gearóid Hegarty is willing to give the hurling rule changes a try, what’s your excuse?
Some of the proposals amount to referees enforcing existing rules, others are radical ideas that will fundamentally change the game
Mary McAleese may have done the GAA a favour by burning the boats
The biggest problem the integration steering group has faced is that its work has been so opaque
Katie Taylor: ‘I’m ending my career on top ... I’m ending as the undisputed champion’
The occasion rises to Katie Taylor as she nails final act on a night like no other at Croke Park
Eternal Katie Taylor does it her own way to the last as she defeats Pili in Croke Park farewell
Fans from all across Ireland came to see the boxer finish her career as the greatest to ever do it. She didn’t disappoint
Everything about Katie Taylor’s career was impossible. Until she did it
Bowing out at a packed Croke Park is a fitting end to an incomparable sporting journey
Pádraic Joyce left Galway in a better place than he found them but the sense of wasted promise will linger
Very few counties had the raw materials at Joyce’s disposal but far too often they weren’t able to close out crucial games
Katie Taylor: ‘I was walking to some boxing gyms as a young girl being sniggered at and laughed at’
In the last press conference of her boxing career, Taylor is in relaxed mood, finally allowing herself to think about her legacy in the sport
Malachy Clerkin: If you’re coaching kids with your county in mind, you’re just as transactional as Aussie Rules
Once you make a move to Australia about the work of coaches rather than the life-changing chance for the player, you lose the argument
Gabriel Bannigan on Monaghan departure: ‘It’s obvious that there were some dark arts at play’
Bannigan stepped down after two seasons in charge, citing a shift in attitude from the county board over the past six weeks
‘At least I’m not English’ – How Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood have traded insults down the years
They were stablemates once but the relationship became strained over time before LIV drove a permanent wedge between them