LeBron and Limerick remind us that greatness is to be revelled in while we still have the chanceWe don’t talk about John Kiely’s side the way we did about Kilkenny and Dublin in the recent pastSat Jul 22 2023 - 06:00
Eoin Murphy and Nickie Quaid: The two best goalkeepers in hurling face off in a final for the agesEoin Murphy and Nickie Quaid have followed similar career paths and will be crucial to the outcome this weekendSat Jul 22 2023 - 05:00
Ireland were doing so well until Marissa Sheva’s lapse in concentrationThere was no badness in the challenge but it was a stonewall penalty that ruined all of Ireland’s good work up to thenThu Jul 20 2023 - 16:00
Chrissy McKaigue did as much as he could to stop David Clifford but Kerry’s marvel found a wayDerry came so close to making the final but a trio of killer wides in the second half were the differenceSun Jul 16 2023 - 20:49
Thank the GAA for Ireland’s Women’s World Cup soccer starsAmber Barrett, Niamh Fahey and many more of the Ireland squad come from a Gaelic football backgroundSun Jul 16 2023 - 08:00
Down the stretch, Dublin showed exactly why they got the gang back togetherWith Brian Fenton, Jack McCaffrey, Paul Mannion to the fore, they outscored Monaghan 1-5 to 0-1 after the hour markSat Jul 15 2023 - 21:40
Dele Alli’s interview is astonishing – what a pity it had to be sponsored by a gambling companyGary Neville handled the whole thing with intelligence and empathy but SkyBet’s constant ads sounded a bum noteSat Jul 15 2023 - 05:00
The Monaghan man who brought the GAA to Dublin’s north inner-city When Brendan Crawley was a teacher in Dorset Street in the 1970s, he set up Matt Talbot GFC and opened up a portal to the worldSat Jul 15 2023 - 05:00
Braying donkeys fail to shine a light on GAAGO - or on very much of anything reallyCommittee hearing was supposed to be about the future of sports broadcasting but got mired in the usual parish pump nonsenseWed Jul 12 2023 - 20:29
Kilkenny through to All-Ireland final as Clare fall into a pothole they dug for themselvesBy sacrificing a forward, Brian Lohan’s side paid far too much respect to the Leinster champions and ended up with too much to do in the second halfMon Jul 10 2023 - 05:00
All-Ireland hurling semi-final as it happened: Limerick blitz Galway to make finalMonstrous second-half display leaves John Kiely’s men on course for the four-in-a-rowSat Jul 08 2023 - 21:05
After a few dull years it’s about time All-Ireland hurling semi-final weekend thrilled us againAs Limerick have come back to the pack the other three counties surely arrive in Croke Park thinking ‘why not us?’Sat Jul 08 2023 - 05:00
History echoes for Limerick as they try to replace the irreplaceable Declan HannonWill Kyle Hayes line out at 6 in Saturday’s semi-final, or will Cian Lynch perform the kind of switch made famous by Éamonn Cregan in 1973?Fri Jul 07 2023 - 17:17
Mayo people will put up with a lot but they won’t accept meek surrenderThe Weekend That Was: Kevin McStay was probably correct that it hadn’t been a bad season, but the assertion was a little tin-eared given the ritual slaughter that had just taken placeMon Jul 03 2023 - 15:46
Malachy Clerkin: Echoes of 2019 as Dublin crush Mayo straight after half-timeA game that looked to be in the balance at the break swung for the Dubs in the space of just five minutesSun Jul 02 2023 - 21:29
On a war footing, Kerry signal intent with bullish victory over TyroneEven with David Clifford on an off-day, Kerry only took an hour to bury the idea that this is a wide open championshipSat Jul 01 2023 - 19:14
Final eight teams bring flaws and inscrutable mysteries - but no big scary beastDublin and Kerry are the All-Ireland favourites but either - or both - could easily crash out this weekendSat Jul 01 2023 - 05:00
Colm Reape is well suited to the goalkeeping psychodrama of Mayo v Dublin matchesA converted full-forward, Reape only started life as a GAA goalkeeper for his club in 2020Sat Jul 01 2023 - 05:00
Armagh and Monaghan rivalry a competitive affair devoid of emnityBoth counties are akin to boxers staring each other down at the weigh-in before sharing a cab back to the hotelSat Jul 01 2023 - 05:00
World Cup journey starts to feel very real for Vera Pauw’s Ireland squadAll 23 players are given their official jerseys at presentation event in UCDThu Jun 29 2023 - 17:05
Conor McCarthy drills the winner as Monaghan outlast Kildare to reach All-Ireland quarter-finalGlenn Ryan’s side missed four goal chances to keep Monaghan alive and dangerousSun Jun 25 2023 - 11:42
Endgame frailties a source of real concern for MayoOpposition teams finding encouragement in McStay’s side’s costly failure to close out games they seemed to have in their handsSun Jun 25 2023 - 06:00
Can’t See, Can’t Be was the easy bit - the next step for women’s sport is much trickierThe women footballers and camogie players who drew their line in the sand this week deserve betterSat Jun 24 2023 - 05:00
Sport in Modern Irish Life by Paul RouseThis is a collection of 47 essays, musings, observations and yarns, and if one doesn’t grab you there’s another one coming right behind itTue Jun 20 2023 - 04:15
Stephen Kenny has depleted his benefit-of-the-doubt reserves with fansSomething has shifted in the support for the Ireland manager - it’s going to be so, so hard for him to shift it backMon Jun 19 2023 - 22:26
Malachy Clerkin: Rory McIlroy has somehow become a byword for losingThere will come a day when we don’t have to stay up late to grab a slice of the McIlroy action - what a dreadful prospect that isMon Jun 19 2023 - 13:38
Sunday GAA: Frantic finishes around the country plunge an adrenaline syringe into the heart of the championshipWins for Kildare, Cork, Armagh and Tyrone light a fire under the summer as jeopardy finally takes holdSun Jun 18 2023 - 21:12
Armagh top the group as injury-time free from Rory Grugan secures victory over GalwayShane Walsh misses a later chance to equalise as Kieran McGeeney’s side progress straight to the quarter-finalsSun Jun 18 2023 - 19:01
Football championship 2023? Let’s talk negativity and the apocalyptic misery of the fare on showGavin Devlin and Kieran Donaghy explain how the game is being played at the top level in 2023Sat Jun 17 2023 - 06:00
Thirty-three things to do in the 33 days until the women’s World Cup beginsSticker books and wallcharts, praying and spoofing - there is much to be done in the coming monthSat Jun 17 2023 - 05:00
Malachy Clerkin: Ireland chase shadows on dispiriting night in AthensGus Poyet’s Greece could not have imagined a more comfortable 2-1 victoryFri Jun 16 2023 - 21:58
Clare can find solace in defeat, as the numbers don’t add up for LimerickThe All-Ireland champions eked out another win and will enjoy the four weeks off - but they may not fancy meeting the Banner againMon Jun 12 2023 - 15:44
Rian O’Neill red card the difference as Tyrone keep Armagh at arm’s lengthKieran McGeeney’s side left to rue first-half sending offSat Jun 03 2023 - 21:38
Toothless Dublin look like a team waiting on a slow deathNever mind the Death of Football, the notable thing about Roscommon’s possession game is that Dublin had no answer to itSat Jun 03 2023 - 05:00
Manchester United have to win the FA Cup final to preserve the unique worth of the 1999 trebleNeither the club nor the competition means a lot to me any more – but the thought of City doing the treble has awakened a dormant geneSat Jun 03 2023 - 05:00
Malachy Clerkin: Unpopular opinion - I miss the officeThe new arrangements have, on the whole, been a positive development in the lives of people. But the pure idle osmosis of being in rooms with people is hard to replicate at homeMon May 29 2023 - 05:30
Dublin’s status as All-Ireland favourites looks shaky after patchy draw against RoscommonDavy Burke’s side should have had their first win in Croke Park since 1980 but a scrappy John Small goal hauled the Dubs back into itSun May 28 2023 - 19:05
Limerick v Cork: Shane Kingston can prove to be much more than a supersub for the RebelsDespite his talent, Kingston has played just nine full matches in eight championship seasonsSun May 28 2023 - 05:00
Go Games aren’t woke nonsense or a sign society has gone soft - they are one of the best things about the GAAThe one thing you never have to teach kids playing sport is how to be competitiveSat May 27 2023 - 05:00
It’s wild to think Kevin Moran played for Dublin and Manchester United at the same timeKevin Brannigan’s terrific new documentary Codebreaker tells the story of a unique Irish sporting careerFri May 26 2023 - 13:31
FT Leinster 26 La Rochelle 27: Leo Cullen’s men beaten again in the Champions Cup finalAs it happened: Leinster were 17 points up and lost to Ronan O’Gara’s teamSat May 20 2023 - 19:06
Football’s All-Ireland series starts this weekend – why is nobody excited?Big teams playing each other on a weekly basis, the most open competition in a generation, but the new format brings a collective shrugSat May 20 2023 - 05:00
US PGA Championship: Day Two as it happenedFollow the action with David Gorman as Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy make movesSat May 20 2023 - 00:04
US PGA Championship: Day One as it happenedBryson DeChambeau leads at Oak Hill Country Club in New YorkThu May 18 2023 - 23:48
Rory Gallagher had to go - but the issue of domestic violence doesn’t go away just because he hasDerry GAA could not have allowed the situation to continue through the All-Ireland seriesWed May 17 2023 - 12:54
Try telling anyone that was at the Ulster final that the provincial championships are an outdated relicAll involved still want to win Ulster - but for how much longer can that continue?Mon May 15 2023 - 15:07
Derry win Ulster final on penalties against Armagh as Rory Gallagher goes unmentionedA nerve-shredder in Clones sees the champions retain their crownSun May 14 2023 - 21:38
Pat Gilroy: I couldn’t do a manager’s job now, everything has changed since 2011Former Dublin manager says the Stardust disaster ‘was the worst thing that happened in our lives’Sat May 13 2023 - 05:00
The Tailteann Cup deserves better than the casual derision of Dónal Óg Cusack Most football counties will end up having to take a swing at winning the second tier All-Ireland in the coming yearsSat May 13 2023 - 05:00
Ulster final at least has clarity after Rory Gallagher steps back from role as Derry managerRory Gallagher: ‘I have advised Derry GAA that I am stepping back as Derry senior football manager with immediate effect’Fri May 12 2023 - 21:04
