The year in sports quotes: The wit and wisdom - from Damien Duff to Daniel Wiffen, Kellie Harrington to Rory McIlroy
The winning quotes of the year in sport
Kellie Harrington
Our writers share their sporting highlights of the year
From Olympic medallists to heroics on the home front, and a poignant evening in Dalymount Park, it’s been another memorable year for Irish sport
Four of Ireland’s top five most admired sports people in 2024 are women
Survey shows big performances mark major milestones in a historic year for women in Irish sport
Kellie Harrington fought hard for the dream ending she well deserved
Back-to-back Olympic champion achieved the most coveted sporting triumph of all, going out on a high
Irish Times Sportswoman of the Year Awards: ‘The greatest collection of women in Irish sport in one place ever assembled’
Kellie Harrington named Irish Times/Sport Ireland Sportswoman of the Year for 2024
Sportswoman of the Year awards as it happened: Kellie Harrington named winner for 2024
Katie-George Dunlevy, Linda Kelly and Eve McCrystal win Team of the Year award
Two-time Olympic champion Kellie Harrington named Irish Times/Sport Ireland Sportswoman of the Year 2024
Olympians, paralympians, All-Ireland winners and more celebrated at annual awards in Dublin
Sportswoman of the Year Awards: Celebration of women’s achievements hits its 20th year
Monthly winners this year included Kellie Harrington, Rachael Blackmore and Rhasidat Adeleke
Katie Taylor is Ireland’s most admired athlete for eighth year in a row
Kellie Harrington’s rendition of Grace with Irish supporters at Roland Garros considered top 2024 moment by Teneo survey
The top 25 women’s sporting moments of the year: top spot revealed with Katie Taylor, Rhasidat Adeleke and Kellie Harrington featuring
Our countdown of the 25 moments that defined women’s sport in Ireland this year
Boxing beaten to the punch when it comes to sports capital grants
Despite producing 19 Olympic medals, the latest being Kellie Harrington, the sport gets a derisory €830,914 out of a €230 million funding pie
Happiness is not considered to be an important goal in some cultures
Some researchers have found that striving to achieve happiness leads to thinking that time is scarce, which produces unhappiness
Irish boxing movie Swing Bout: ‘Kellie Harrington did us a great favour. We couldn’t have timed it better’
Kellie Harrington’s Olympic win did Irish boxing feature Swing Bout a big favour, admits producer and actor Sinéad O’Riordan
Michael Darragh Macauley: ‘I find it enjoyable to give back. I don’t do it for Instagram likes. I do it because it makes me happy.’
The former Dublin footballer may have left the GAA pitch behind, but he is playing to win in new territory: as CEO of Sanctuary Runners, making a difference to the lives of asylum seekers and migrants
Kellie Harrington named Sportswoman of the Month for July
Back-to-back Olympic gold medal winner Kellie Harrington claims the Irish Times/Sport Ireland Sportswoman Award for July
In Pictures: Team Ireland’s Olympic homecoming
Thousands lined O’Connell Street as Ireland’s athletes travelled back from Paris 2024
The inspirational Kellie Harrington, so good Dublin celebrates her twice
People of Dublin’s north inner city welcome back two-time Olympic champion, who’s one of their own
Daniel Wiffen sings and Kellie Harrington takes the biscuit at Irish Olympic homecoming
Simon Harris sounded giddy with excitement as large crowds gathered at the GPO
Large crowds gather to greet Kellie Harrington as double Olympic champion arrives home to Portland Row
Athletes receive warm reception after winning seven medals and challenging on many fronts in Paris
Our writers choose the best and worst of the 2024 Olympic Games
From historic feats by Daniel Wiffen and Kellie Harrington to kangaroo-hopping and boxing’s lapse into a culture war
Olympics: Complete day-by-day guide to the Irish athletes in action in Paris
Paris 2024 timetable: Who is competing when in athletics, boxing, rowing, hockey, badminton and gymnastics?
Paris has been a beguiling host but there’s no mystery behind Ireland’s Olympic success
Paris has been a beguiling host but there’s no mystery behind Ireland’s Olympic success
Double Dublin homecoming for Olympic champion Kellie Harrington
Kellie Harrington will be part of GPO reception as well as second local event on Portland Row on Monday
Rachael English and Des Cahill are on different wavelengths on ‘Happy Kellie Harrington Day’
Radio: The move towards calling out Musk and X, where far-right members have been able to gather large followings, is overdue
Kellie Harrington confirms boxing retirement: ‘I’ve nothing more to prove, not even to myself’
Double Olympic champion will stay involved in the sport, speaks of ‘special’ feeling seeing Irish flag raised at medal podium
Kellie Harrington’s home town painted gold in honour of Olympic medallist
Mere hours after her triumph, council painter Noel Wallace was outside her parent’s north inner city home rolling the gold onto lamp-posts
Kellie Harrington: Ireland’s greatest Olympic boxer
Sarah Lavin and Mark English make a strong start on the track before all eyes turn to Rhasidat Adeleke
Kellie Harrington: ‘The next chapter is going to be my life chapter. It’s for me and Mandy’
Double Olympic gold medal is looking forward to all the normal things in life that boxing denied her
Kellie Harrington stands alone, the first Irish woman to win gold medals at two Olympics
At a feral Roland Garros arena, the Dublin boxer bounced around the ring when the verdict came, all the good and all the bad of her life in boxing falling away
President leads tributes to Kellie Harrington’s ‘truly remarkable achievement’ after she wins second Olympic gold
Olympic Games: Higgins hails ‘phenomenal sportsperson’, Harris says Ireland ‘could not be prouder’ following Dublin boxer’s victory over Yang Wenlu of China
Kellie Harrington the gem of Diamond Park as crowd roars on their double Olympic champion
Olympics 2024: Dublin inner-city neighbourhood once more savours a stunning success by boxer Kellie Harrington on the world sporting stage
Olympics at a glance: How all the Irish athletes fared on Day 11 as Kellie Harrington makes it double gold
Ireland miss out on medals in show jumping final; O’Sullivan and Healy head for 1.500 repechage
In Pictures: Kellie Harrington savours another golden moment as she makes Olympic history
Kellie Harrington has become the first Irish woman to win medals at successive Olympics. This is the story of her golden run in Paris 2024
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