Were the sepia-tinted days of Simon Geoghegan, living off a paltry two passes a season but still managing to round Tony Underwood, somehow better in their authenticity, their romance, their innocence?

Publicly commenting on someone’s inability to communicate is a little like commenting on somebody’s weight. It’s rude. No good ever comes from it.

Its tradition is as strong as handball, but its reach as a team sport should elevate its accessibility and popularity if only it was properly structured and supported.

The Leicester boss will do well to survive the current crisis.

First impressions are important, even in a journey that McStay himself knows will either end in Valhalla (an All-Ireland win) or Abaddon (everything else).

Football, so often guilty of doing the wrong or morally dubious thing for capital gain, chose to do the wrong thing 'out of respect' to an institution they owed nothing

There are levels of commitment when it comes to pick-up soccer, and purchasing appropriate footwear is one of them. It’s hard now, compared to before

The tradition of giving your child your own Christian name —technically known as a “patronym”— goes back several centuries, when a child (usually a first son) was named after a parent (usually a dad) as a symbol of familial fealty.

If there was one thing I learned that fall in Kabul, it was that a baseball inning will last just as long as it takes Vin Scully to say exactly what he has to say, and not a moment longer.

There will be no hysteria in Galway city this week, and that only adds to the sense of desolation Mayo people living there can feel on weeks such as this. There will be little or no talk of it in the butchers and bakers. Any maroon and white flags will likely be the product of some contrived social initiative, complete with pithy hashtag, rather than the impromptu act of a football- mad house.