Her retirement last week came as no surprise. Marriage, motherhood and injuries have brought fresh focus to her life, which will undoubtedly be richer for her latest choice.

Jürgen Norbert Klopp. Those who follow the football club he manages, revere him.

Tadhg Coakley charts his journey to and from Sunday's Munster SHC clash of Cork and Clare

When Katie Taylor was a kid there were no women boxers headlining anything. Whatever she saw for herself, it could never have been this bloody glorious

“Hell is other people”  - Jean Paul Satre, No Exit  There’s an NPR podcast series - one arguably responsible for birthing all others - called This American Life. It is what I would call “luxury listening”.

Dear Marcus Rashford MBE,  Last summer, as you, Marcus, prepared for the biggest game of your professional life against Italy in the European Championship final, a nation held its breath.

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?