Malachy Clerkin: Irish athletics has hit new heights, but let’s not lose the run of ourselvesParis Olympics: After the Irish team's heroics in Rome, it’s important not to overburden our best athletes with incessant medal chatSat Jun 15 2024 - 06:00
Nobody takes the ‘Kilkenny are never beaten’ dictum more literally than DublinMicheál Donoghue has changed Dublin's hurlers but until they find a way to beat Kilkenny, they will be dismissed as the same old DublinSat Jun 08 2024 - 06:00
Rhasidat Adeleke: Brightest light in Irish sport continues to set new standardsThe Tallaght superstar has been named Irish Times/Sports Ireland Sportswoman of the Month for MaySat Jun 08 2024 - 06:00
Man City v the Premier League is a repellent vomitfest - the Euros can’t come quick enoughAs Manchester City and the Premier League go to war, at least we can knock a month’s enjoyment out of hoping for England’s eventual European Championship demiseFri Jun 07 2024 - 19:48
Sweden 1 Republic of Ireland 0: How the Irish players rated Caitlin Hayes is supreme at the centre of defence as Ireland just fall short in StockholmTue Jun 04 2024 - 19:48
Sunday GAA Championship - live updates: as they happenedFollow along for live commentary with seven matches scheduled between the All-Ireland Championship and Tailteann CupSun Jun 02 2024 - 18:03
Can Donegal win the All-Ireland?Jim McGuinness’s Donegal have injected some energy into a pretty drab championship but panel depth and playing style could prevent them going all the way to All-Ireland successSat Jun 01 2024 - 06:00
Hugo Keenan’s Sevens dream is a fantastic risk to take – only the Olympics has that kind of powerParis Olympics will see the biggest Ireland team ever competing at these gamesSat Jun 01 2024 - 06:00
Five things we learned from the GAA weekend: Louth just the latest to break a Meath recordLimerick’s season is going exactly how they would want; Dublin wind it up; Keith Rossiter’s Wexford revival; and those bloody abacusesMon May 27 2024 - 11:14
Davy Fitzgerald: ‘The players will come and tell me what they think and they’ll be pretty blunt’ Having managed in the championship for all but one of the past 17 seasons, the Waterford boss heads to Limerick in search of a result to extend their summerSat May 25 2024 - 06:00
An afternoon with refugees at the Dublin Castle Fan Zone restores your faith in the power of footballFor an hour, a group of men weren’t any of the septic names they’d be called in the swamps online - they were just young lads playing footballSat May 25 2024 - 06:00
A ruthless streak might be the only thing Clare are missing - but they need to find itEven though Clare scored 4-21 against Waterford, they left another 4-18 on the table and continued a worrying pattern of letting big leads fade awayMon May 20 2024 - 14:48
Five things we learned from the GAA weekend: A sobering seven weeks for DerryWaterford conceding too many goal chances; Monaghan at lowest ebb; Tipp bottom out; Kilkenny work in progressMon May 20 2024 - 10:22
Clare make hard work of it to finally come out ahead against heartbroken WaterfordBrian Lohan’s side should have won more easily but succession of misses kept Waterford in it until the endSun May 19 2024 - 16:25
Derry faced with a dilemma against Galway, do they stick or twist?Following the chastening defeat to Donegal, Mickey Harte's Derry must decide whether to revert to a more cautious Plan B or just come back blazing with a better, more effective Plan ASat May 18 2024 - 06:00
Jamie Costin was 27, in the shape of his life, ready for the Olympics. Then he got hit by a truckThe Waterford racewalker suffered two broken vertebrae and had to wear a body cast for five months but still made it back to compete in Beijing four years laterSat May 18 2024 - 06:00
Scottie Scheffler: After his arrest, that’s the last time anyone will call the world No1 dull and boringIt’s hard to imagine a more surreal situation than the world’s best golfer getting taken away in handcuffs from the site of the year’s second majorFri May 17 2024 - 14:54
Five things we learned from the GAA weekend: Don’t mess with the Ulster finalHave Cork finally uncovered Limerick’s tactical vulnerability? John Kiely laments inability to communicate with his playersMon May 13 2024 - 11:21
Jim McGuinness: ‘It felt like the Armagh fans thought that was their moment’Kieran McGeeney’s side losing their four-point lead cost them dearly against Donegal in the Ulster finalSun May 12 2024 - 21:16
Margins paper thin at Clones as McGuinness and Donegal reap final reward Heartbreaking Ulster final defeat for Armagh again as they suffer a fourth penalty shootout loss in big gamesSun May 12 2024 - 20:56
How Armagh fell from being the most feared team in Ulster to 16 years without a provincial titleWhen they lifted the Anglo Celt in 2008, it was their seventh time being champions in the previous 10 seasons - nobody expected it all to fall off a cliff, least of all themselvesSun May 12 2024 - 12:43
Amy Broadhurst has done a brave thing switching to Great Britain – but things could get messy at ParisSwitching to fight for Team GB can’t have been easy for the world champion from Dundalk but it underlines what a singular life you have to lead to be an OlympianFri May 10 2024 - 15:00
Leinster back where they most want to be, the place that has caused them the most hurtThe majority of this squad have known nothing but heartbreak in Champions Cup finalsMon May 06 2024 - 06:00
‘The humiliation of Kerry’ – how losing to Clare in 1992 made for a bitter aftermath in the KingdomThere were a lot of bad days for Kerry between 1986 and 1997 but none lower for the players involved than the county’s only ever Munster final defeat to ClareSun May 05 2024 - 06:00
Jamison Gibson-Park puts in an all-seeing display to lead Leinster to victoryJames Lowe scored a hat-trick of tries but it was no surprise that the Leinster scrum-half was awarded man of the matchSat May 04 2024 - 20:37
Galway’s form has nosedived in the absence of Shane Walsh and Damien ComerThe Tribesmen’s two best forwards played 92% of the time on the way to the 2022 All-Ireland final but those numbers have nosedived since, along with the team’s formSat May 04 2024 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: Don’t mind Newstalk’s Ciara Kelly - pitting sport against sport is completely outdatedLeinster coming to Croke Park for an enormous rugby match is a great coup for the GAA - we should not be so po-faced and precious about itFri May 03 2024 - 17:40
No shame in losing to Limerick but Sunday could not have gone worse for TipperaryThe weekend that was: Liam Cahill’s team needs to find something in the coming days otherwise their year will be over quicklyMon Apr 29 2024 - 13:51
Peter Casey injury clouds trademark Limerick win over hapless Tipperary A scoring burst either side of half-time put clear water between the teams at the Gaelic GroundsSun Apr 28 2024 - 19:12
Born leader Darragh Canavan bears the load of great expectations lightlyAn intense spotlight in Tyrone was always going to follow the footballing fortunes of Darragh and Ruairí, the sons of legendary former county star Peter CanavanSat Apr 27 2024 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: A rare dose of FAI truth reveals that Irish soccer is in a worse state than you thinkThe presentation this week on the academy system shows why the past six months of public humiliation has been such an unmitigated disaster for the associationSat Apr 27 2024 - 06:00
Donegal punish the Derry high press to run in four goals in a classic Jim McGuinness ambushThree goals directly from kick-outs make a fool of Derry goalkeeper Odhran Lynch as the visitors pull off a shock with echoes of their 2014 win over DublinSun Apr 21 2024 - 10:19
Derry seek to echo Donegal’s All-Ireland success ahead of their year of yearsWith at least six games to go until a potential All-Ireland final, Derry believing it is their year is one thing. Making it happen is anotherSat Apr 20 2024 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: The Cork footballers have been out of the conversation for far too longMark Keane’s goal against Kerry in 2020 turned out to be just another surreal note in the Covid championship rather than a springboard back to the top tier of the gameSat Apr 20 2024 - 06:00
Wicklow gave full media access and nearly shocked Kildare - more teams should follow suitAllowing The Irish Times access to preparations last week did not do McConville’s side any harm and engagement shows huge hunger by GAA public for insightMon Apr 15 2024 - 15:00
‘We haven’t closed the gap on Dublin at all’ admits Colm O’Rourke as Meath take another hammeringWicklow come close to overturning Kildare but make a mess of last-minute goal chance in PortlaoiseMon Apr 15 2024 - 06:00
Paul Mannion in sparkling form as Dublin roll on to 16-point victory over MeathColm O’Rourke’s side gave in plenty in the first half but a controversial opening goal for Seán Bugler was turning pointSun Apr 14 2024 - 19:00
One night in Ballinakill: Behind the scenes at Wicklow training ahead of Kildare showdownThe Irish Times was given full access to Oisín McConville’s side, team meeting, video session, in the gym and on the pitch as they prepared for this weekend’s Leinster quarter-final against KildareSat Apr 13 2024 - 06:00
The story of how Jack B Yeats won Ireland’s first Olympic medal ... in paintingIn Paris in 1924, Yeats’s painting The Liffey Swim took the silver medal in the art competition and gave a country that was just over 18 months old a treasure that has lasted a centurySat Apr 13 2024 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: The FAI are reaping what they’ve sown in their struggles to appoint a new managerA middling team with limited prospects and a relatively low salary – it’s little wonder it has taken the association so long to appoint someone to take over from Stephen KennySat Apr 13 2024 - 06:00
Underdogs have their day as shocks mark first Sunday of the championshipOpening day of shocks in the football championship as Cavan, Waterford and WicklowMon Apr 08 2024 - 06:00
Cavan’s two injury-time goals seal deserved win over near neighbours MonaghanPaddy Lynch in outstanding form to score 1-9 as the wind dominates Ulster Championship opener in ClonesSun Apr 07 2024 - 19:10
Shane Lowry should win more often - Augusta would be a good place to startIf Rory McIlroy had blown back-to-back 54-hole leads in the past month, he wouldn’t have been treated with kid gloves in the manner Lowry so often isSun Apr 07 2024 - 06:00
All-Ireland football championship 2024: How the teams rank from 33 to 1 after the league campaignWho ranks as the main All-Ireland contender heading into the first weekend of championship action?Sat Apr 06 2024 - 06:00
Here’s to the football championship, the great clanking rust bucket of the Irish sporting summerEveryone assumes it’s between Dublin, Derry and Kerry for Sam Maguire but league form seems a dubious guide and plenty of teams will be ready for an assault when the serious stuff starts in JuneSat Apr 06 2024 - 06:00
It is hard to see how a gruelling Ulster campaign fits into Derry’s grand planMickey Harte needs to protect his precious resources for the business end of the seasonTue Apr 02 2024 - 10:40
Clare rout Tipperary to make hurling final as football league suffers Sleepy SundayAfter an underwhelming afternoon with no major surprises, Dublin will play Derry in the Division One final and Roscommon join Monaghan in falling to relegationSun Mar 24 2024 - 20:23
Rampant Clare much too good for lacklustre Tipperary as they cruise to hurling league finalDavid Fitzgerald continued his lordly league form but Brian Lohan’s side were helped by a Tipp team that hit 18 widesSun Mar 24 2024 - 19:26
‘This is the be-all and end-all’: Four counties still chasing glory in crunch weekend for Division FourWhile critics call for league finals to be scrapped, Laois, Longford, Wexford and Leitrim are pursuing a place in the Division Four decider. Each knows that winning it would give their county a lasting liftSat Mar 23 2024 - 06:00
Your view on Kyle Hayes shouldn’t be coloured by team allegiance - but sport is depressingly predictableWhile the Limerick hurler got a suspended sentence after being found guilty of two acts of violent disorder, it’s impossible to divorce the case from his standing as a high-profile sportspersonFri Mar 22 2024 - 18:05
