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Ciara Mageean: ‘I just felt numb. It wasn’t even sadness, it was just emptiness’

The Down athlete reflects on the devastation she felt at having to pull out of the Olympics on the eve of the Games and her intention to make Los Angeles in 2028 the pinnacle of her career

By Malachy Clerkin

Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year: Celebrity ‘manifesting’ influences 2024 choice

Sonia O’Sullivan: A jog down Olympic memory lane shows how far Irish athletes have come

Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn retires from competitive breaking after Olympic upset

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Ireland’s most unexpected Olympic medal

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The Corkman once hailed in the US as ‘the Cajun sportsman of the century’

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The race walker who broke his back just days before the 2004 Athens Olympics

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Mary Purcell: A pioneering multi-distance athlete for whom anything seemed possible

By Ian O'Riordan

The meteoric rise and notorious fall of a long-distance runner

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The surprising story of who won Ireland’s first Olympic medal and for what it was awarded

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Maybe ‘Rattle’ Barrett chopped off his nose and stuck it back on. It is hard to separate the man from the myths

By Dave Hannigan

An Olympian, a revolutionary and a Christy Moore song: Bob Hilliard was the boxing Irish clergyman who fought against Franco

By Mary Hannigan

Ciara Mageean: ‘I just felt numb. It wasn’t even sadness, it was just emptiness’

Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn retires from competitive breaking after Olympic upset

Olympic boxer Imane Khelif takes legal action over male chromosomes claims

The agonising story of how two Irish sailors lost out on an Olympic medal

After the Olympics, athletes face a further tough challenge: the comedown

Sonia O’Sullivan: When you watch the best, you soon see coaching always comes back to the basics

Olympian David Gillick: ‘I coach children. It can be hard dealing with parents ... some get so caught up on results’

An Irishwoman in Paris: I feel a magnetic drag to be Franco-Irish and participate in French politics

Jordan Chiles appeals to Swiss supreme court over stripping of Olympic bronze

Paralympians in the news

Paralympic cyclist Katie-George Dunlevy: ‘I want to inspire visually impaired children and the LGBT community to not give up’

Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn tops latest world breaking rankings despite Olympic flop

Raucous Dublin Airport homecoming reception for Team Ireland Paralympians ‘brilliant to see’

Paralympics: Katie-George Dunlevy and Linda Kelly win silver in women’s B road race

Paris to name sports venue after Ugandan Olympic marathon runner killed in petrol attack

Bed found for 8ft 1 Iranian Paralympian forced to sleep on floor in Paris

Ireland’s Katie-George Dunlevy and Linda Kelly win gold in Paralympic time-trial

‘There is lots more in the tank’: Orla Comerford happy with Paralympics bronze, for now

Ireland’s Róisín Ní Riain claims second Paralympic medal with bronze in 200m IM

Paralympics Day 7: Irish in action and best of the rest as cyclists switch from the velodrome to the roads

Paralympics Day 6: Irish in action and best of the rest as Ellen Keane takes to the pool one last time for Team Ireland

Italian sprinter Alessandro Ossola fails to qualify for final but has win with proposal on track

‘We are always proud of each other’: Ireland’s MacCombe sisters celebrate strong showing in Paralympic triathlon

Paris mayor sparks row with plan to keep Olympic rings on Eiffel Tower

North Korean table tennis players may be punished for Olympic podium selfie with South Korean rivals

‘I’ve failed miserably at a lot of things’: Olympic champions humble as ever on return to Skibbereen

Paralympics Day 4: Irish in action and best of the rest as MacCombe twins bring sibling rivalry to para triathlon

Paralympics: Greta Streimikyte sets new European record but finishes outside the medals in Paris

Paralympics Day 3: Irish in action and best of the rest as Shauna Bocquet and Greta Streimikyte in finals

‘I gave it my all’: Medal finish in Paris not to be for Ellen Keane

Paralympics Day 2: Irish in action and best of the rest as Ellen Keane begins gold defence

More Than the Games: A look at the stories from the first day of the Paralympic Games

Was Rhasidat Adeleke unfairly denied an Olympic bronze medal in Paris?

Paralympics 2024 - Meet Team Ireland

Daniel Wiffen urges State to build more 50m swimming pools across the country

Bahrain charged with ‘serious anti-doping rule violations’ before Paris Olympics

JD Sports reports sales rise in volatile market

Rhasidat Adeleke and Daniel Wiffen voted Team Ireland’s most marketable athletes

Irish sprinter Israel Olatunde to join Olympic champion Noah Lyles’s elite training group

Ian O’Riordan: Athletics deserves a bigger share of the sport funding pie

Kellie Harrington named Sportswoman of the Month for July

Your highlights of the Olympics: ‘The Italia ‘90 moment for the next generation’

‘I’m hoping at least one girl who is on the fence about reporting her violent boyfriend ... will read about my case’

Potential for serious damage to Irish economy as Trump reshapes trade, Ministers warned

‘We have all seen the video’: Dundalk voters give verdict on John McGahon as Fine Gael candidate goes to ground

Restaurateur Gráinne O’Keefe: I cut out sugar from my diet and here’s how it went

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