Olympic Games

Three-time Olympic swimmer Shane Ryan announces retirement

The 31-year-old says he looks forward to ‘mentoring the next generation’

‘My first day back at work after the All-Ireland I thought, ‘Oh my God, it’s all over, and I just want to go back’

In elite sports, the transition from thundering stadiums and euphoric wins to ordinary life can be traumatic

Irish Olympic hopefuls have won 45 senior medals worldwide in 2025. Where did it all go right?

Three years out from the LA Olympics, new faces have emerged into a system that finally seems to be working

Zaur Antia: ‘Success has no limit. We always have to prove ourselves’

Ireland’s Georgian-born `godfather’ of boxing is looking forward to the World Championships and LA Olympics with quiet confidence

Swimming prodigy John Shortt: ‘Rugby taught me a lot, the biggest thing was the leadership side of sport’

Swimming prodigy celebrated World Championships medal haul at the home of his first sporting love

John Shortt: The 18-year-old from Galway taking world junior swimming by storm

Teenager had almost complete domination of the three backstroke events in Romania

Sonia O’Sullivan: My worry for Rhasidat Adeleke is that she’s not being entirely open or honest

Issuing a vague message on social media was far from the best way to deal with her withdrawal from the World Athletics Championships

What’s behind Rhasidat Adeleke’s withdrawal from the World Championships?

Irish runner says her season has been blighted by injury and setbacks

Maeve Kyle obituary: First woman to represent Ireland in Olympic Games and a trailblazer for women in sport

Kyle was heavily involved in several different sports during her lifetime

Paris Olympics, one year on: ‘It’s a very difficult pill to swallow. It probably always will be’

Sports fans soon move on from the Games but for athletes, it is rarely so simple

Olympian Abigail Lyle’s abuse at the hands of Jonathan Creswell: ‘He hit my head off the window, off the dashboard’

Olympic rider was in a relationship with Creswell for almost a year. He went on to murder showjumper, Katie Simpson

Closed since a 2018 murder, what is next for Katie Taylor’s former boxing club in Bray?

Olympic coach Pete Taylor claims Wicklow County Council removed all his belongings and equipment from Bray Boxing Club

Why the record-breaking heights of Mondo Duplantis are truly out of this world

Few athletes have matched the rate of Swedish pole superstar Duplantis. Witnessing his world records will never grow old

Olympians give a splash course in the art of high-speed sailing

The next Olympic Games may be three years away, but medals are currently being earned in the shadows

28 Years Later review: Danny Boyle’s rattling zombie epic never lets up in pace or invention

Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes star in a quest narrative that, amid its grade-A gore, has bleak fun with the state of Britain

‘We can’t afford to live here’: Westport housing crisis leaves no room for locals as homeowners turn to Airbnb

Residents blame short-term lets and holiday homes for worsening the Co Mayo town’s accommodation shortage

What on earth were China’s women runners on back in the 1990s?

Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet ran the second fastest women’s 3,000m time in history last weekend – but was still way off the record set 32 years ago

Matt Williams: Decision to abandon men’s Sevens programme has shattered the dreams of generations of players

Irish rugby administrators wasted years resisting the eyecatching format and now they have dashed the hopes of another generation

Rhasidat Adeleke on life in the spotlight: ‘How do people like Beyoncé handle this? This is crazy!’

Rhasidat Adeleke interview: Tallaght sprinter on navigating fame at 22, building her brand and the changes she has made ahead of September’s World Championships

Past rows over women’s clothing should compel Camogie Association to waste no more time before fixing skorts issue

Women’s soccer and boxing icon Katie Taylor have brought about progress that jars with camogie problem

Leona Maguire teaming up with Shane Lowry? Mixed golf among new events added to 2028 Olympics

The LA Games will feature more women athletes than men for the first time

Hammer thrower Nicola Tuthill breaking new ground with help from Jerry Kiernan Foundation

After good showing in Paris Olympics, Tuthill is hoping to continue her progress into the World Championships in Tokyo in September

Rhasidat Adeleke may feel the roundabout benefits of passing on Grand Slam Track

New super-elite competition aimed at growing the sport in between Olympic cycles

Finn Lynch best of the Irish heading into the final day of fleet racing in Mallorca

Carlow sailor improves to fourth overall and is just one point off the podium places

Irish boxing’s Olympic future to be decided next month

Date set for clubs to vote for a change to the IABA constitution which would allow them join World Boxing

When it comes to pushy parents and sport, dealing with the adults is as important as coaching children

Problem of demonic ‘bad dad’ behaviour in pushing talented offspring too far is longrunning and legion

The Olympic charter and USA’s hard-right playbook are on a collision course for Los Angeles 2028

‘This is an administration where nothing is too small and cruelty is sometimes the point’

Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry elected first female IOC president

Former Olympic swimmer elected to lead the International Olympic Committee after one round of voting

Lord of the Rings: All you need to know about the race to become the next IOC president

Sebastian Coe is the favourite in a seven-strong field

What the latest IOC decision means for Irish boxers targeting the Olympics

Boxing will be at the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles but Irish fighters' participation is not straightforward

Olympic status of boxing on verge of being secured

IOC president Thomas Bach says executive board has recommended that boxing be included in 2028 games in Los Angeles

Amy Broadhurst: ‘I was on the Irish team, then on the British team, now I’m on no team'

After switching from Ireland to Team GB ‘it was a really horrible atmosphere ... it was very difficult’

Happy 90th birthday, Ronnie Delany: from Wicklow’s fields to Olympic gold

Delany’s determined victory in the 1,500m event at the 1956 Olympics still inspires today

World Boxing granted IOC recognition as sport takes step towards LA Olympics

Sport faced axe from Games after decision to banish previous governing body over governance and financial concerns

Padel ball: Rooftop courts prove popular as developers look to appeal to a fitness-conscious cohort

Well-heeled homeowners also installing the playing surfaces in their gardens

Breakdancing in pictures: Competitors defy gravity in one-on-one battles at Dublin’s Button Factory

Dancers were competing in Dublin for a place at the Red Bull BC One World Finals in Tokyo this November

‘I think I’m listening more to my body’: Sharlene Mawdsley on the changes made since the Paris Olympics

The 26-year-old Tipperary athlete has joined the training group of UK coach Tony Lester

Fintan McCarthy on moving up to heavyweight rowing: ‘It should work out, as long as we don’t get too fat'

Lightweight rowing is not part of the LA Games in 2028, which means the Cork rower must adapt

Broadcaster Kay Burley announces she is retiring from Sky News after 36 years

Veteran journalist was one of original hosts of channel when it was launched in 1989

Dave Hannigan: Sad spectacle as Marion Jones bids to rebuild her ruined brand

Reality television the last refuge of too many scoundrels as disgraced former Olympic champion joins a long list

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