NIALL Carew has called on the GAA to facilitate the provision of specific boxes for management and coaching teams in grounds around the...

IN ANOTHER year, Padraig O’Connor might have been preparing with the Kerry squad for Sunday’s Allianz Football League Division 1 final...

KILDARE coach Ronan Sweeney has pinpointed the Lilies’ last-gasp defeat to Derry in round 3 of the Allianz Football League as an...

THE congratulations cards are wedged above the fireplace, battling each other for a good posi. Room is tight, particularly with the...

IT WAS notable how even former Ireland and Lions skipper Paul O’Connell was remarking on the shudderingly physical nature of the...

"This wasn’t meant to be no sad song. We’ve heard too much of that before." - Paul Brady, The Island “I’d be a lot worse if it happened...

“Do you think you’ll ever get outta here?” “Me?” Red sighs. “Yeah. One day, when I’ve got a long, white beard and two or three marbles...

HE WELCOMES you at the front door, the smoke he exhales more vivid in the zero-degree night. You not given those up yet? “For Lent” comes...

“OH FOR fuck’s sake. Not again.” When you are a 34-year-old inter-county footballer recognising the symptoms of a stroke, having suffered...

BRYAN Cooper seems to have been around a long time but one look at the cherubic face and you are reminded that he is only 23, giving the...

CIARA Quirke won most of the plaudits as a result of scoring a goal and nine points in Myshall’s 1-10 to 1-9 defeat of Eglish in the AIB...

SOME players have a knack for scoring goals and Mary Kelly fits into that category. It has ever been thus. Mary Kelly wheels away after...

“NÍ NEART go cur le chéile!” Slaughtneil skipper Aoife Ní Chaiside lifts the Bill & Agnes Carroll Cup (Photos: INPHO/Tommy Grealy) These...

RUBY Walsh is one of the greatest jump jockeys the world has ever seen. Everyone has different criteria for judging the best. Even the...

IRISH riders were in fantastic form yesterday, scoring a hat-trick of wins against top-class opposition in the Middle East, Europe and...

WHERE to start with Eddie Lynam’s season? The norm is to go with the beginning, isn’t it? “When I was standing at the parade ring on...

WHEN Sole Power blitzed a high class field in the Nunthorpe Stakes at York’s Ebor meeting last August at the eye-popping price of 100/1,...

IT IS undeniable that turning professional has brought change in Katie Taylor’s life, but only around the edges. The really important...

A FIELD of seven have been declared for the Grade 2 Paddy Power Onside App Novice Hurdle headed by the Ted Walsh-trained Any Second Now,...

IN HORSE racing, breeding carries as much weight for the human protagonists as the equine ones. Being a Mullins, Carberry or Taaffe is...