There is a scene in Godfather: Part II, where senator Pat Geary visits Michael Corleone, and outlines to him the mechanics of how he will allow the Corleones to operate their family business in Las Vegas.

Having sporting values slowly eroded by commercial influence will see us become shills to faceless empires

If Roman emperor Marcus Aurilius had spent his days dreaming about the RBS Six Nations and not of his native Rome, this, surely, was not what he envisaged.

For Mayo, the ultimate question remains: do you stick with something that so often works, sometimes beautifully, even poetically, but ultimately fails?

Like race week in Galway, Radio Row apparently peaks around Wednesday, before petering out to a soulless morass by Friday

Their performance last Saturday night in Tralee was personified by an abject lack of creativity, albeit in brutal conditions.

All of us have been there. A question, innocent at the time of launch, hangs in the air like a mortar round suspended in time.

On January 10, senior Stetson Bennett IV led the Georgia Bulldogs in their upset of first ranked Alabama Crimson Tide in the 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship.

Galway and Pádraic Joyce are on the edge of something. Whether it’s great or grim, is up to them.

Brown’s football-related indiscretions will, in the end, prove far more prohibitive to his prospects than the litany of wrongdoings in his private life