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Nguyen in European Young Player of the Year race
IRELAND’S badminton squad bowed out of the European Mixed Team Championships in Lubin, Poland last Wednesday, after defeats to Sweden and...
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Feb 20, 20173 min read


Taking CARE of business
SERENDIPTIOUS is how Patrick Ryan describes the sequence of events that saw Carol Nolan tell her interviewers at Horse Racing Ireland...
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Feb 13, 201711 min read


Irish spend 22m euro at Cheltenham Festival
AN ECONOMIC Impact Analysis has revealed that people visiting from Ireland spent €22.3m (£19.23m) at the Cheltenham Festival last March,...
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Feb 13, 20174 min read
Kerry's Okunbor dreams of pro life
WHILE many in Kerry are decrying the so-called poaching of the county’s top players by Aussie rules clubs, teenage AFL hopeful Stefan...
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Feb 10, 20172 min read


Baker and Narbon on the double for Thunder
GRIFFITH Swords Thunder will be celebrating once more this week, as the club has been awarded both the Men’s Super League Player of the...
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Feb 8, 20172 min read
Douvan to attract racegoers to Punchestown
IRELAND'S highest-rated chaser Douvan will be the star on show at Punchestown on Sunday when lining up in the Boylesports Tied Cottage...
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Feb 3, 20172 min read


The Next Episode - Joseph O'Brien
THE quiet village of Owning nestles in a small valley, resting neatly between two inclines. Descending from the Carrick-On-Suir side, a...
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Feb 3, 201710 min read


House of Commons committee to host "no confidence" debate in FA
THE Culture, Media and Sport Committee has secured a debate on the governance of football governance in the House of Commons. This...
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Feb 3, 20173 min read


Nash makes debut as Erasmus rings the changes
RASSIE Erasmus has made 11 changes for Munster's Guinness PRO12 game against Edinburgh Rugby tomorrow evening in Myreside (7.35pm). A...
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Feb 2, 20172 min read


Strickland makes first appointments to coaching staff
NEWLY-APPOINTED head coach of the Irish senior men's basketball team, Pete Strickland has today announced the first two appointments to...
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Feb 2, 20172 min read


Slaughtneil keeps All-Ireland treble dream lives on
SARSFIELDS will play Slaughtneil in the AIB All-Ireland senior camogie final after Niamh McGrath slotted an injury-time point for the...
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Feb 1, 20173 min read
Swimmers get season under way in Bangor
IRISH swimmers will take to the pool in Bangor this weekend for the Dave McCullagh Memorial Meet, which incorporates the Swim Ulster...
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Feb 1, 20171 min read


No more raised eyebrows as Blackmore takes it to another level
IN ONE sense you wonder if the industry should be making a lot more of the Rachael Blackmore story, much and all as the humble jockey...
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Jan 31, 20178 min read


Grounded Blackmore hitting her straps
PERHAPS the most notable aspect of Rachael Blackmore’s landmark achievement at Tramore on Wednesday, when she recorded her first double...
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Jan 31, 20174 min read


"Our family and friends, people we had grown up with since we were young, and people Daddy had grown
AS SOMEONE involved in high performance sport his entire adult life, having played in All-Ireland finals with Derry and Slaughtneil, and...
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Jan 28, 20175 min read


Work and play co-exist in Lyng's recipe for healthy living
THERE is nothing like starting a new job to take your mind off an impending AIB All-Ireland intermediate camogie club semi-final. Áine...
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Jan 28, 20174 min read
Peter's call the tune
St Peter’s College Wexford 2-13 Moate CS 0-7 ST PETER’S College won their second Top Oil Leinster GAA Post Primary Schools Leinster...
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Jan 28, 20172 min read


Endurance test for Joyce Down Under
IN DIFFERENT circumstances, Darragh Joyce (pictured) might have been hoping to join his older brother Kieran in a transitioning Kilkenny...
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Jan 21, 20172 min read
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