Shane Lowry inserts some Offaly into gilded world of golf’s eliteIrish fans rightly proud of the easygoing Claret Jug holder who keeps game in perspectiveSat Apr 10 2021 - 06:00
Cork’s Aaron Hill among the balls with The Crucible in his sights19-year-old - who has already beaten Ronnie O’Sullivan - is set for qualifying in SheffieldSun Apr 04 2021 - 08:00
From Aintree to Augusta, April is the coolest monthDelivering us from winter into summer, the fourth month of the year is full of possibilitySat Apr 03 2021 - 08:00
Keith Duggan: Dublin risk tainting their legacy with lockdown training sessionEarly morning images from Innisfails will disappoint many for different reasonsThu Apr 01 2021 - 12:25
Sideline Cut: It might just be easier to unite a country than to break up a dressingroomTwo international sides on a tiny island should tell onlookers everything about the IrishSat Mar 27 2021 - 06:00
All the Right Moves: When Tom Cruise graduated from Brat Pack to star turnThe storyline is straight from Springsteen’s The River, but this is an underrated gemFri Mar 26 2021 - 06:00
Fans get a tantalising glimpse of Stephen Kenny’s vision for IrelandIt ended with another defeat but Belgrade may yet be seen as the turning point for managerWed Mar 24 2021 - 23:10
Keith Duggan: Dick Hoyt’s heroic feats with his son a study in raw courageDuo competed in races propelled by father’s superhuman will to give his boy a sporting outletSat Mar 20 2021 - 06:00
Katelynn Phelan up for the fight in the unforgiving world of pro boxingKildare woman faced bullying in school and online but remains dedicated to careerSat Mar 20 2021 - 06:00
McIlroy the perfect judge of just how much of himself he gives to golfPrice Woods paid for dominating the game was the relinquishing of a fully-rounded lifeSat Mar 13 2021 - 07:00
Hoosiers: True story of underdog basketball team still charmsSincere storytelling paired Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper at height of their powersTue Mar 09 2021 - 06:00
Sanita Puspure’s unstinting dedication has defied her late startsCorkonian via Latvia - she is now working hard to be ready for Tokyo 2021Sun Mar 07 2021 - 08:00
Keith Duggan: Bloodlust for Elliott revenge seems shrill and suspectPeople can care deeply about their animals while remaining practical about their dyingFri Mar 05 2021 - 18:39
Budd Schulberg: The screenwriter who made Marlon Brando a starHe spent a weekend with F Scott Fitzgerald, saw Nazi Germany and wrote On The WaterfrontTue Mar 02 2021 - 06:00
Swimming in the planet’s deepest, darkest waters is where Nuala Moore feels most aliveDonegal woman knows the dangers but the draw of the unknown is hard to resistSun Feb 28 2021 - 07:00
Keith Duggan: Gerrard the saviour for blue half of Glasgow as he buries an old ghostFormer Liverpool hero ends Rangers’ title torment and finally wins a league titleSat Feb 27 2021 - 06:00
How will Covid’s impact on school sports affect students?Teachers and coaches fear lasting damage could be done to children both physically and mentallySat Feb 20 2021 - 10:50
GAA would be better served avoiding a media partnership with AmazonIdea of Amazon and GAA partnering up provides a sharp – dystopian – contrastSat Feb 20 2021 - 07:00
Tokyo 2021 could yet thrill the world with a female face presiding over itFemale successor to Yoshiro Mori would help enormously in recovery from this debacleSat Feb 13 2021 - 06:00
Thug Life: When the ugly spectre of violence became part of the beautiful gameBill Buford spent six years with the football hooligans whose weekends were spent riotingThu Feb 11 2021 - 06:00
We mustn’t forget Tyreek Hill’s troubling entry into NFL’s elite corridorsKansas star pleaded guilty to domestic assault against his pregnant girlfriend in 2014Sat Feb 06 2021 - 12:09
Heaven Is A Playground: A snapshot of a time and culture within a sportRick Telander’s book is more a sociological wonder than a story about basketballTue Feb 02 2021 - 06:00
Daft, exhilarating, iconic - Point Break still riding the wave of time at 30Patrick Swayze’s defining feature never enters the ‘great sports film’ conversationSat Jan 30 2021 - 09:31
Tom Brady continues to defy time as Buccaneers target Super Bowl spotHaving left the Patriots after two decades, the 43-year-old quarterback has not let upSun Jan 24 2021 - 06:00
Gary Neville has perfected the chipper Manc with Liverpool chip on his shoulderThe former Manchester United full back has aged into a kind of willing pantomime figureSat Jan 23 2021 - 06:00
‘We are down to the last penny’: Aran islanders on their pandemic yearCovid-19 led to a tense time for usually easygoing community amid rifts over reopeningMon Jan 04 2021 - 01:21
Spirit of the Leaving Cert class of 2021 an inspiration for the year aheadRoscommon minors’ triumph in a winter storm a fitting end to strangest GAA yearSat Jan 02 2021 - 06:00
Keith Duggan: Sports stars find their voices in a troubled yearIt’s the athletes rather than the owners who have the conch now. When did that happen?Tue Dec 29 2020 - 07:00
This is the age of Dublin’s empire and no end in sightMoney and population debates can rage, but thirst for success can’t be ignoredMon Dec 21 2020 - 05:45
Mayo’s hope of an alternative history vanishes into a perfect Dublin winter’s nightSilent assassin Niall Scully shows how Dublin go about killing off hope in their oppositionSat Dec 19 2020 - 20:45
Sideline Cut: Mayo will be a county of a hundred thousand vigils come 5pmMayo’s All-Ireland quest has ultimately been about the bloody mindedness of the playersSat Dec 19 2020 - 08:00
Summer 2012 – when Mayo ended Old Dublin’s reignThis Saturday James Horan’s men will attempt to repeat the feat of dethroning the championsSat Dec 19 2020 - 06:00
Final flourish helps Limerick complete a special season in fitting styleBrave Waterford outclassed as Kiely’s men deliver a second All-Ireland title in three yearsMon Dec 14 2020 - 06:00
Limerick shine brightly in the silence of Croke Park‘Hurling and football being able to give a bit of enjoyment to people. We’re really grateful to be able to do that’Sun Dec 13 2020 - 21:09
John Kiely delights in Limerick’s performance and just the chance to do it‘I am going to enjoy this one now anyway. Whatever will come after it, we’ll worry about it’Sun Dec 13 2020 - 20:47
Limerick comet burns bright as they breathe the rarified air of hurling kingpinsKiely’s team are in a rare and exalted place, going into an All-Ireland final as favouritesSun Dec 13 2020 - 06:00
Keith Duggan: Time to start paying more than lip-service to Irish women’s sportSideline Cut: Utter fiasco of ladies football semi-final shines harsh light on current state of playSat Dec 12 2020 - 06:00
Mayo emerge from the fog to set up old dance with DublinJames Horan’s remarkable re-calibration in the space of a year has lead to another finalMon Dec 07 2020 - 05:00
Mayo boss Horan praises pressure game but admits things need tightening up‘In the second half as well, the game was gone and maybe we got a little bit lackadaisical’Sun Dec 06 2020 - 19:24
How Tipperary football finally won its own war of independenceThe stars have aligned for Tipp as they face into an All-Ireland semi-final with MayoSun Dec 06 2020 - 08:30
Keith Duggan: Victims’ stories have turned the tables on George GibneyDisgraced swimming coach must now lie awake and fear them coming for himSat Dec 05 2020 - 06:00
Has Mike Tyson completed the least likely redemption story in American sport?When you see him this week it feels like a minor miracle that he has made it throughSat Nov 28 2020 - 09:00
Sordid murder of hurling brothers still resonates in south GalwayThe Loughnanes from Shanaglish, who hurled for Beagh, lost their lives 100 years agoSat Nov 28 2020 - 06:00
Keith Duggan: Through the glories and the disgraces, we were all Maradona addictsMaradona’s second goal against England in 1986 was one of the still points among all the chaosWed Nov 25 2020 - 20:30
Galway have a date with Limerick after Tipp run out of gasDefending All-Ireland champions go out on their shield as Tribesmen march into semisMon Nov 23 2020 - 06:00
Galway take full advantage of Barrett red card to finish off TipperaryLiam Sheedy proud of his side as All-Ireland champions bow out in LimerickSat Nov 21 2020 - 16:22
MacKenzie’s unwanted intervention the last thing Stephen Kenny needsAt worst video reportedly shown to players before England friendly was a naive mistakeFri Nov 20 2020 - 18:00
There’s nowhere for Tipperary to go and that suits Liam Sheedy just fineSaturday’s lunchtime battle with Galway might be just the kind of battle Tipp thrive onFri Nov 20 2020 - 17:00
Relentless Mayo turn their eyes to the main prize againHoran’s men pip Galway to reclaim Connacht title while Dubs issue a warningMon Nov 16 2020 - 01:00
Galway fall short as Mayo youngsters edge Connacht finalProvincial decider becomes a game of half chances, crunching tackles and errorsSun Nov 15 2020 - 19:46
