Something just doesn’t sit right about rugby in August.

The latest chapter in Daryl Horgan’s career as a professional footballer began with a run off the bench for Neil Lennon’s Hibernian in their 1-1 draw away to St Johnstone in Perth last weekend.

Very few of us paid attention when Greg Cunningham’s transfer from Preston to Cardiff City went through in June.

It’s less than two years since Galway’s beef with the ostracisation of their underage teams from Leinster’s minor and U21 grades morphed into the suggestion that the county should think about hopping over another fence and into Munster’s field instead.

"To one’s enemies, I hate myself more than you ever could." — Alain de Botton

Tori Bowie was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Only someone living in a cave, and maybe the odd cave man, could deny that there has been a long overdue change in perceptions when it comes to women in sport.

What this World Cup could really do with is a team to capture the imagination, says Brendan O’Brien.

The GAA’s casual relationship with the notion of home advantage never ceases to amaze, writes Brendan O’Brien.