Malachy Clerkin: Ireland don’t quite reach greatness, but do enough to win Six NationsIreland deserved to win Six Nations, but would a great team butcher as many tries as they did here?Sat Mar 16 2024 - 21:47
Malachy Clerkin: The GAA should make more of St Patrick’s Day - and more of its intercounty starsBy squeezing the season and stripping the leagues of meaning, this is another lost opportunity by an association that seems to want to remind its elite teams of their place in the worldSat Mar 16 2024 - 06:00
Cheltenham 2024 day four as it happened: Galopin Des Champs wins Gold Cup for MullinsIt’s Gold Cup day as Ireland looks to hit back following a successful Thursday for British trainersFri Mar 15 2024 - 18:53
Cheltenham 2024: Willie Mullins makes it 100 winners, Rachael Blackmore wins the Champion ChasePatrick Mullins wins the final race to bring his father to the landmark achievement of a century of festival winnersWed Mar 13 2024 - 17:59
Cheltenham Festival 2024 day one as it happened: State Man claims Champion HurdleAnother stunning day of Willie Mullins dominance at CheltenhamTue Mar 12 2024 - 18:27
Orlagh Lally: ‘There were days where I would just sit there and I didn’t care about anything’Three-time All-Ireland winner and Aussie Rules professional Orlagh Lally opens up about her mental health struggles and losing her friend Red Óg MurphySat Mar 09 2024 - 06:00
Six Nations: Ireland can’t beat England often enough or by enough. No mercy, ladsOnly certainty is that this era of dominance will come to an end; it would be a shame if we became so used to beating England that the wins ceased to feel specialSat Mar 09 2024 - 06:00
Defeats for Tyrone, Monaghan and Kildare bring relegation battles into focusNo room for error heading into the last two rounds of games in the top divisions of Allianz Football LeagueMon Mar 04 2024 - 06:00
David Clifford in immaculate shooting form as Kerry use all-in shemozzle to spark victory over TyroneJack O’Connor’s side respond to last week’s hammering by Dublin with a dominant display in KillarneySun Mar 03 2024 - 17:20
Malachy Clerkin: If John O’Shea does nothing else, at least he has righted the wrong done to Brian KerrFor 19 years, it has always been an unconscionable waste to have Kerr doing more to improve football in the Faroe Islands than in IrelandSat Mar 02 2024 - 06:00
Hewick and Shark Hanlon will bring the best story to Cheltenham, regardless of how the Gold Cup goesThe grind of living from year to year and horse to horse has been broken for the Carlow trainer by an unlikely superstar who only cost €850 but has won more than €700,000Sat Mar 02 2024 - 06:00
Black cards have improved Gaelic football, but we should not forget their original purposeThe weekend that was: Recent black cards punished honest mistakes instead of truly cynical acts, a deviation from the point of the cardMon Feb 26 2024 - 13:23
Five things we learned from the GAA weekendMonaghan heading for the drop, with Armagh and Donegal poised to get promotedMon Feb 26 2024 - 12:21
Con O’Callaghan hat-trick lights up the night as Dublin trounce low-energy KerryDessie Farrell’s side put in their best performance of the campaign to run out easy winnersSun Feb 25 2024 - 08:31
Malachy Clerkin: Redacted emails show FAI would rather look bad than be transparentChief executive Jonathan Hill’s overpayment did not need to become a drawn-out saga, so why did the association do everything an organisation does when it is trying to hide something?Sat Feb 24 2024 - 06:00
Raymond Galligan’s Cavan motoring well and can target the Armagh-Donegal axisTwo league wins on the road has put last year’s Division Three champions in a promising position ahead of their trip to LouthSat Feb 24 2024 - 06:00
FAI spent their morning apologising and explaining a joke, making a bad situation worseJonathan Hill will most likely survive what was ultimately a small scandal with no real consequence other than making the association look embarrassingly clueless and badly governedThu Feb 22 2024 - 14:07
Football league talking points: Kildare and Cork left worrying over Sam Maguire statusGAA can surely live without adding VAR to the mix for marginal callsMon Feb 19 2024 - 15:42
Con O’Callaghan sparkles as Dublin pay tribute to the late Shane O’Hanlon‘Football was the last thing on our minds this week,’ says Dessie Farrell after team beat Roscommon at Croke ParkSat Feb 17 2024 - 20:47
Malachy Clerkin: The FAI has only itself to blame if people are losing confidence in the new regimeThe problems of Irish football will not be fixed as long as the association is struggling to appoint a manager for the men’s national team and squirming before an Oireachtas committeeSat Feb 17 2024 - 06:00
Shane O’Hanlon was a unique presence in the Dublin set-up – his sudden death leaves them bereftHe was a offically a selector and a logistics man but, to the most successful generation of Dublin footballers ever, O’Hanlon was the heartbeat of the whole operationSat Feb 17 2024 - 06:00
Tipperary, Clare and Limerick come out on top on a day of tight battles in the hurling leagueHenry Shefflin’s Galway fight doggedly but come up short in Thurles, Davy Fitzgerald’s Waterford unable to overcome a plethora of absences in Walsh ParkMon Feb 12 2024 - 06:00
Gearóid O’Connor shines for Tipperary as they finally shake off dogged GalwayA late penalty put a cap on a brilliant performance by the Tipp wing-forward as Liam Cahill’s side deservedly took the pointsSun Feb 11 2024 - 19:07
With Irish parents and Ugandan citizenship, Kathleen Noble heads for Paris with a unique Olympic story to tellThe daughter of Irish missionaries was the first white person ever to represent Uganda at the Olympics and will be looking to leave a legacy in her sport when she competes in her second Games later this yearSat Feb 10 2024 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: The machine got Tiger Woods in the end and now it has Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift in its sightsWatching the Kansas City Chiefs player wander into the orbit of the most famous popstar on the planet, you had to worry whether he knew what he was letting himself in for. So far, he seems to be handling it all okaySat Feb 10 2024 - 06:00
Basketball Ireland CEO on playing Israel game: ‘I’m not prepared to destroy my sport for a gesture that will have no impact’John Feehan and coach James Weldon are continuing to prepare for Wednesday night’s game against Israel, adamant that they had no choice in the matterTue Feb 06 2024 - 19:17
Five things we learned from the Gaelic Games weekendCormac Murphy, Fergal Boland and Cillian Burke add extra scoring threats for their teamsMon Feb 05 2024 - 12:16
Fergal Boland’s late winner for Mayo condemns Dublin to second injury-time defeat in a rowDessie Farrell’s side were the better team for much of the way but late sloppiness cost them againSat Feb 03 2024 - 22:17
Malachy Clerkin: We know all the reasons for Ireland to play Israel at basketball. We also know it should not happenThe horror stories coming from Gaza make it impossible to engage in sporting relations with a country whose response to the Hamas attacks has been so disproportionateSat Feb 03 2024 - 06:00
Tipperary’s Noel McGrath: ‘It was never a burden to talk about it, the least I could do was give back’In a career bookended by facing off against two of the greatest teams of all time, McGrath’s consistency has been remarkableSat Feb 03 2024 - 06:00
SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh row should make GAA people grow up about balancing commerce with traditionCork GAA had decades to venerate Pádraig Ó Caoimh - it should take more than a stroke of a sponsor’s pen to desecrate his nameWed Jan 31 2024 - 11:52
Monaghan’s new wave underlines Dublin’s need for a refreshThe GAA weekend that was: It’s slightly surprising that Dessie Farrell hasn’t tried to introduce more young blood to the Dublin teamMon Jan 29 2024 - 13:28
Five things we learned this GAA weekend: Unpredictability of opening round strikes againNo change on the western front; McGuinness steadies the Donegal ship; Worth watching if Dublin stick with quick release; Fly goalies add to the thrills in TraleeMon Jan 29 2024 - 12:28
Goals win it for Monaghan after madcap second half against Dublin in Croke ParkCiaran McNulty and Stephen O’Hanlon tear Dessie Farrell’s defence asunder as Vinny Corey’s eternal survivors grab a vital two pointsSat Jan 27 2024 - 22:47
National Football League: Four players to watch in 2024 As the new season kicks off, we choose one player from each division who is bound to make their mark in the coming yearSat Jan 27 2024 - 06:00
Mickey Harte is gone, but low expectations will not do Ger Brennan and Louth any harmBrennan has taken command of a rocket on the rise. There is peril in that. What if the only way is down?Sat Jan 27 2024 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: You can hate Liverpool with all your soul and still know you will miss Jürgen KloppLiverpool's ability to keep his secret for a full two months shows just how much the German has changed the culture at AnfieldFri Jan 26 2024 - 14:59
NFL Division Two: Armagh and Donegal look favourites to go upDivision Two will grab more attention than ever with big names on the sidelines and high stakes on the pitchThu Jan 25 2024 - 06:00
Full Contact: The Netflix Six Nations rugby series is glossy and beautiful, but only grand - not a grand slamMalachy Clerkin: Full Contact brings you behind the scenes of last year’s Six Nations, but it is not always clear what you are doing thereWed Jan 24 2024 - 08:00
Malachy Clerkin: Losing an All-Ireland club final is hard —only the toughest make it all the way backDerry club Glen aiming to join an elite club in Gaelic games: winning an All-Ireland 12 months after losing the finalSun Jan 21 2024 - 06:00
First blood to Mickey Harte as Derry make short work of Donegal in McKenna Cup finalA night of pristine free-taking from Shane McGuigan secures the spoils for Derry against Jim McGuinness’s DonegalSat Jan 20 2024 - 21:26
Neighbours, brothers and Conor Glass: How Glen went from soft townies to All-Ireland favouritesThe Derry club, formed in 1948, did not win a county title until 2021 when a group of players moulded by former All Star Enda Gormley finally changed the way they saw themselvesSat Jan 20 2024 - 06:00
All-Ireland titles for Arva and Cullyhanna as the junior and intermediate finals showcase a lost GAAIntermediate and Junior All-Ireland club finals produce many memorable moments at Croke ParkSun Jan 14 2024 - 20:13
A women’s Lions tour to New Zealand will only widen the gap between rich and poorA women’s Lions tour to New Zealand not what women's rugby needsSat Jan 13 2024 - 06:00
Guns, slaps, jigsaws and the best 61 seconds of sport all year (the darts, obvs) - the A-to-Z of 2023Every year is filled with heroic deeds of sporting immortality but every year is filled with spivs, chancers and ne’er-do-wells too. Here’s some of them, in all their glory.Sat Dec 30 2023 - 06:00
New owners will quickly learn that Manchester United need more than a little streamliningSport always comes down to resources, talent and technical application - and the other crowd are chasing it just as much as you areSat Dec 30 2023 - 06:00
Sports Review 2023: Murphy’s incredible reflex save showed hurling’s facility for the impossibleSports Review: Eoin Murphy's stunning save to deny Peter Duggan one of hurling's unforgettable momentsFri Dec 29 2023 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin’s sporting Christmas singalong, featuring Manchester United, JP McManus, Jon Rahm and RG SnymanIt’s Christmas time, there’s no need to be afraid. Having said that, here’s our festive songsheetSat Dec 23 2023 - 06:00
Big wins were elusive in 2023 but Ireland’s sportswomen consistently among the best As their achievements in 2023 confirm, the base level of performance for Irish women in sport is so much higher than beforeFri Dec 22 2023 - 06:00
The top 25 highlights of the year in Irish women’s sportFrom Aussie Rules to athletics, sailing to soccer and everything in between, 2023 has been a spectacular year for Ireland’s sportswomenThu Dec 21 2023 - 06:00
