It’s 25 years ago tomorrow, their day of days during the time of their lives.
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Recent events prompted us to remember Rodney King’s famous 'Can’t We All Just Get Along?' plea but little did we think it would be the increasingly heated ...
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A giant in sport fell just there, though you probably didn’t hear any tremor. But you’ve seen the ripples from his work, from Augusta to Croke Park.
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It seemed the most perfectly timed as well as inspired of campaigns: 20x20, by and for 2020, a year in which more young girls – along with the rest of us – ...
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He’s almost back, all eyes on him again, even if no one will be there.
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In 2006 a New York Times African-American sportswriter called William C Rhoden wrote a book on the experience and dilemma of the US black athlete with the eye-catching ...
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As much as we’d come to associate this time of year with glorious hurling weekends magnified by the sport’s highly satisfying new format, we may have ...
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Just like the season it captured for posterity, The Last Dance was a marathon that still left you wanting more - but gave so much. Here are 23 takeaways from revisiting ...
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Even if live sport does return at some point this year, 2020 may already have had its televisual goosebumps moment of the year.
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On the eve of the GAA’s decision to cancel a series of national league games back in mid-March, this column immediately speculated how the coronavirus would ...
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For something that people wondered and worried if it could stretch out to a full 10 hours, The Last Dance is leaving quite a bit out.
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We really are playing the long game now, writes Kieran Shannon
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It's not just that when a door closes, another one tends to open; sometimes it means you’ve to close another too.
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THE simple pleasures we took for granted. Like hopping into a car and travelling more than 2km and meeting up with some athlete or coach, past or present, in some ...
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Where have you gone, Michael Jordan? A nation and the world turns its lonely eyes to you, writes Kieran Shannon.
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At a time like this a columnist, or at least one who covers sport, has two choices. To write about It or not to write about It, that is the question.
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He won’t get the kind of send-off we’re used to or that he deserves, writes Kieran Shannon.
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The first time I ever heard about the Foot and Mouth All-Ireland would have been in Hayes Hotel 100 years after Michael Cusack had called a meeting for there to ...
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IT’S March now, which in recent years has invariably meant a dramatic conclusion to Irish basketball’s men’s SuperLeague, just as April always ...
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The other day, during a guest lecture to students on the new masters in sports journalism course in UL, I tried, without maybe succeeding, to make the point that, ...
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In so much of the conversation and speculation about the current and future management of Manchester United, the debate tends to be framed in absolutes.
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All through last summer, while the indefatigable Mark Tighe kept breaking stories highlighting the scale of the incompetence and mismanagement of the FAI, there ...
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Because of what was happening out in Tallaght over the weekend, this piece was always likely to be about basketball, and then a certain event in California last ...
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There's a few words that should crop up quite frequently during the upcoming Allianz Leagues — development, competitive, even fun — but one go-to term ...
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Last Saturday week,before he’d oversee Leinster steamroll Connacht in the RDS, Stuart Lancaster popped over to DCU on the other side of town to speak to coaches ...
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Last weekend, Slaughtneil and Tooreen, those oases in the hurling wastelands of Derry and Mayo, emerged from the shadows and into the limelight
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While on this island we were debating whether Rory, Katie or maybe Paul O’Donovan was our outstanding sportsperson of the decade, the Associated Press gave ...
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Rory McIlroy is by a distance the Irish sportsperson of the decade, writes Kieran Shannon.
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Now that it’ll be yellow from next summer on, the sliotar should be a lot easier to track — but even with the advent of such a smart ball, there’s ...
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When the Dublin footballers continuously speak about the ‘culture’ that Pat Gilroy changed and established and that Jim Gavin then perfected, they rarely ...
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When trying to explain to parents how they can protect their kid in this crazy football world, Stephen Finn sometimes uses the analogy of a mechanic.
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Well, what else did you expect the score to be?
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It almost isn’t fair.Reading Tony Leen’s spread on these pages last Saturday brought home just how ridiculously spoiled they’ve been in Kerry in ...
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Cage Warrior Graham Boylan left Cork at 18 with no Leaving Cert and no money, just an attitude. Now he is the CEO to Europe’s biggest MMA organisation and ...
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While it’s a time for some humility in Irish rugby, it is not a time for catastrophising. Honest self-reflection is required but not self-flagellation, suggests ...
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While monitoring the fortunes of the Irish rugby team over the past month — indeed, the past year and a half — my mind has often thought back to something ...
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When Ger Loughnane brought out his book 18 years ago, he had the whole pick of Ireland to launch it for him.
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Sometimes when someone comes out with a Big Reveal or a Hot Issue in a Big Interview promoting their New Book like Richie Sadlier did on The Late Late Show last ...
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Just like about everything else he did with the Lions in 2005, Clive Woodward may have overthought and overdone it when trying to acknowledge and respect the locals’ ...
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Some Friday protests are more powerful than others.
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We might have mentioned this one before somewhere, but after a decade of inter-county football concluded last Saturday with Croke Park housing both the crowning ...
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Beyond the mere fact that no (male) GAA team has ever pulled it off before, would Dublin completing the five in a row carry a greater significance?
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It was natural that of all the previous All-Ireland finals that last Sunday’s conjured comparisons with, 1982 was the easiest from the archive to reach for, ...
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Not for the first and hopefully not for the last time, Seamus ‘Cheddar’ Plunkett once again flew in the face of the mainstream.
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When Paddy Stapleton’s family were confronted with a crisis last autumn, he found he could call on old teammates — and some old adversaries — for ...
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It takes a special team to make a team like Mayo look so old, spent, lost.
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You won’t find them on the Hill today. They don’t chant You Boys in Blue – though some of their children will.
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Given last Sunday night’s peculiar but surely forgivable digression by Derek McGrath and Dónal Óg Cusack had half the nation yearning for the ...
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Last year when Kerry played a Super 8s match in Croke Park, it didn’t exactly fare well in the TV channel-hopping stakes.
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Micheál Martin’s office has to apologise to Arlene Foster for ‘cock-up’
Mary Lou McDonald settles with ex-Fianna Fáil TD over alleged defamatory tweet
Covid-19: Visits suspended at Cork nursing home
Cork Sinn Féin TD says he was on learner licence when caught drink-driving
Update: Teen escapes serious injury after fall into cave off Cork island
‘Confused’ AIB mortgage holders get debt write-down
Garda pub checks find 26 potential breaches of Covid-19 restrictions
Cork pizza company opens new factory with plans to grow internationally
Visa change strands American couple in Cork for four months
Sports giant Decathlon tries Cork's Mahon Point Debenham store for size
