Jonny Cooper: ‘I miss the lads. I think about them every day’Dublin’s seven-time All-Ireland winner will be writing about football throughout the championship in The Irish TimesSat Apr 08 2023 - 05:00
My Fantasy Football team was good and now it isn’t - this has become all too seriousI was on top of the world, but then rank mismanagement resulted in an omnishambles. This must be how Frank Lampard feels every daySat Apr 08 2023 - 05:00
Welcome to the All-Ireland football championship - there has never been one like it The next 16 weeks bring more games than ever, more questions than ever and the greatest number of contenders for Sam Maguire in a generationSat Apr 08 2023 - 05:00
Rollicking second-half display sees Cavan become Division Three champions against FermanaghStunning performance of place-kicking from goalkeeper Ray Galligan sent them up to the steps of the Hogan StandSun Apr 02 2023 - 09:16
No point pretending Mickelson and the other LIV golfers are not at the MastersThe idea that the TV broadcasters should ignore the breakaway players is ridiculous - golf is precious, the Masters is precious squaredSat Apr 01 2023 - 05:00
How a small band of Derry supporters have travelled Ireland in support of their sideFour years ago, 29 fans made the trip to Waterford for a Division Four game, when the good times seemed further away than everSat Apr 01 2023 - 05:00
Didier Deschamps hails Mike Maignan after his late heroics deny Ireland a pointIreland manager Stephen Kenny left disappointed after loss: ‘We’ve never seen Kylian Mbappe have such a quiet night’Tue Mar 28 2023 - 11:06
Ireland do a job on Kylian Mbappé but come away gutted at one killer mistakeSéamus Coleman played with the canny defender’s credo - it doesn’t matter that you’re not fast from A to B if you don’t start at AMon Mar 27 2023 - 22:13
Stephen Cluxton’s crankiness will be as crucial to Dublin as his goalkeepingDessie Farrell’s side won’t be far away come the championship - they just need to cut out the sloppy play that has crept in without CluxtonMon Mar 27 2023 - 12:45
Galway beat Kerry, Monaghan stay up - but none of it compares to Cluxton’s return Division Four provides the most entertainment as Tony McEntee and Oisín McConville get Sligo and Wicklow promotedMon Mar 27 2023 - 05:00
Stephen Cluxton’s bombshell return overshadows Dublin’s win over LouthDessie Farrell admits the 41-year-old former Footballer of the Year hasn’t come back to sit on the benchSun Mar 26 2023 - 17:29
Stephen Cluxton makes shock return to Dublin panel for Louth league gameThe 41-year-old goalkeeper has not played for the county since 2020Sun Mar 26 2023 - 14:25
Bryan Cooper on his fear of falling: Why the celebrated jockey is retiring at age 30‘I’m young to retire, I know that. The injuries have taken their toll, they’ve caught up with me and I can’t go on doing it’Sat Mar 25 2023 - 07:00
We don’t expect much from the Ireland soccer team but a bit of hope never hurtsStephen Kenny took over three years ago this week and now, with the foundations laid, his team must start producingSat Mar 25 2023 - 05:00
Johnny Sexton skips to his own beat as he leads England a merry danceThe captain yet again set the tone for Ireland on the way to secure just a fourth Grand SlamMon Mar 20 2023 - 07:00
Picture Perfect: Ireland’s Grand Slam campaign in sharp focusThis is how they did it, as seen through the lenses of sports photographers who followed them all the waySun Mar 19 2023 - 15:00
Ireland got there in the end but boy oh boy, they’d put years on youEveryone said this Grand Slam decider would be a cakewalk but for a full hour it was anything but thatSat Mar 18 2023 - 19:37
Andy Farrell the right man with the right stuff when Ireland needed himIf England are not looking at this coach and wondering why they discarded him, they’re in more trouble than we thinkFri Mar 17 2023 - 16:22
Ireland v England: Reacting to adversity is the best tool Andy Farrell has given IrelandScenario planning only gets you so far - attitude is crucial when things go wrongThu Mar 16 2023 - 05:00
Tadhg Furlong: ‘If you’re not excited about playing this weekend, where are you in the sport?’As the drumbeat to the Grand Slam builds, Ireland players know there’s no point pretending it’s just another gameWed Mar 15 2023 - 05:00
Jake Morris leads goal burst as Tipperary eventually break Waterford challengeJake Morris scores a hat-trick as more clinical Tipp side win league clashSat Mar 11 2023 - 21:26
Davy Fitzgerald: ‘I have a bit better perspective. As you get older, you see life for what it is’The Waterford manager has been involved in senior inter-county hurling for 33 years and his passion still burns brightlySat Mar 11 2023 - 00:00
Gary Lineker’s Match of the Day saga is a depressing sign of the times for the UKIf the BBC won’t support someone so famous and beloved, what are the chances they’ll back a lowly reporter trying to hold the Tories to account?Fri Mar 10 2023 - 19:14
Mayo are safe but everything else is up for grabs in helter-skelter Division OneTyrone’s win over Kerry shows the league to be as dangerous a bearpit as it ever wasSun Mar 05 2023 - 19:44
Mayo survive late Roscommon charge in an unlikely blockbuster of a gameTwo late goals for the home team turned what had been a one-sided affair into a dramatic nail-biterSun Mar 05 2023 - 19:00
Was all the fuss worth it for Rory McIlroy to help make rich golfers richer?With the Masters looming the Northern Irishman’s play on the course has started to slip a littleSat Mar 04 2023 - 05:00
Format change means Kildare in the Tailteann Cup is far from impossibleAvoiding relegation from Division Two might not be enough so the fight for places at the bottom will be ferocious in the coming weeksMon Feb 27 2023 - 12:29
Monaghan’s experience throws the Roscommon bandwagon off the railsDivision One leaders lose their unbeaten run to more seasoned and savvy operators on their home patchSun Feb 26 2023 - 17:25
Wicklow’s Mark Jackson on course to be highest-scoring goalkeeper in football historyStill only 24, he passed 100 points last week – although you wouldn’t want to be relying on the GAA to tell you about itSat Feb 25 2023 - 00:00
New calendar means Kerry’s league struggles could come back to bite themChampionship is only six weeks away and Jack O’Connor’s side are a long way from looking readyFri Feb 24 2023 - 20:45
John Motson had an untamed love for football’s nooks and its crannies - he was a figure who defined an eraHis sport took over the planet across the span of his career and yet he never gave the slightest hint that he’d wearied of itThu Feb 23 2023 - 13:54
From McCabe to Shine, Rowe to Mustaki - Remembering when Ireland U19s shocked the world A dream run at the 2014 Euros laid the foundations for the success of Irish soccer and created bonds for lifeSun Feb 12 2023 - 05:00
Six Nations 2023: Did the gap between France and Ireland just get wider?Fabien Galthie had never lost to Ireland as a player or coach and his side were stunning in patches but it just wasn’t enough in the endSat Feb 11 2023 - 18:59
Six Nations: Ireland 32 France 19 - As it happenedAndy Farrell’s side proved too strong for the defending champions in a thriller at the Aviva StadiumSat Feb 11 2023 - 17:14
Malachy Clerkin: The Liverpool fan just wants the season to be over at this pointWith the Merseyside Derby on the horizon, the fraught business of supporting Jürgen Klopp’s side has taken a turn for the worseSat Feb 11 2023 - 05:00
Colm Parkinson: ‘If people hate me, I don’t have any problem with that’The former Laois player has built his own GAA podcast from scratch and a year in, it’s going from strength to strengthSat Feb 04 2023 - 06:00
Katie Taylor and Croke Park are the perfect ingredients for a classic Irish sporting meltdownEddie Hearn should obviously pay the money but does he really have any idea of the madness he’s walking into?Fri Feb 03 2023 - 19:00
Where’s the next Con O’Callaghan coming from for Dublin?It’s seven years since he arrived along like a lightning bolt - since then there has been a lot of auditions but few starring rolesMon Jan 30 2023 - 13:15
Dublin survive shooting woes to secure a one-point win over KildareEarly-season rust on show all over the pitch as Dessie Farrell’s men make an unconvincing start to life in Division TwoSun Jan 29 2023 - 17:21
We should be screaming about survey on problem gambling among intercounty GAA playersA recent study showed that intercounty players gamble significantly more than the general public, yet almost nobody noticedSat Jan 28 2023 - 05:00
The National Football League: the GAA’s best and most abused competitionSuccess in the league means so many different things to so many different peopleFri Jan 27 2023 - 17:00
Cavan and Westmeath to prosper in hipsters’ choice Division ThreeWith four Ulster teams and five first-year managers, it has the makings of a cut-throat few monthsTue Jan 24 2023 - 20:46
NFL Division Three: Four Ulster teams feature in competitive leagueWestmeath already guaranteed of All-Ireland football later in the year after Tailteann Cup victoryTue Jan 24 2023 - 19:57
Club finals provide redemption for Kilmacud and BallyhaleFor the first time, last year’s runners-up have both come back to win the club All-Ireland titlesMon Jan 23 2023 - 06:00
Olivia Mehaffey is finding her way back after grief brought on a breakdownAfter losing her father to cancer, the Armagh golfer endured a torrid 2022 and stepped away from the gameSun Jan 22 2023 - 10:00
The ballad of Brett Maher, the NFL kicker who became a walking punchlineYou don’t want to be a famous NFL kicker – it usually means you’ve done something historically terribleSat Jan 21 2023 - 06:00
Westport GAA: Reworking structures enabled club’s spectacular revival‘There’s a lot of moving parts and you have to work hard to get every section working in tandem together’Sat Jan 21 2023 - 05:00
Cooley Kickhams: Playing numbers are good but finances need help‘I’m sitting down these nights and going, ‘How am I going to get these fellas football?’Fri Jan 20 2023 - 05:00
All challenges are different for GAA clubs - in Na Fianna, we crave spaceSympathy towards Dublin super-clubs might be in short supply, but first-world problems don’t go away just because you call them thatThu Jan 19 2023 - 05:00
A rotten elbow the worst of six red cards as David Clifford gets Fossa over the line to cap incredible yearRathmore have too much in hand in the Intermediate final as Kerry clubs to the double over TyroneSun Jan 15 2023 - 19:00
