I’m counting down the hours to the weekend’s World Indoor Championships as Sopot in Poland hosts the most important event of the global athletics calendar.

Recently, the Irish Sports Council announced it’s funding for 2014.

The Olympic spirit is contagious. It makes you emotionally attached to people you have never met or even heard of before.

Sport, like most things, has both good and bad sides. It’s tempting to get caught up in the magical side but it’s naïve to think it’s all wonderful. Ugly issues like drugs in sport exist.

The indoor athletics season has begun and it will culminate in the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland in early March.

DERVAL O'ROURKE: Sometimes I feel as if I’m part of a secret club.

I had no intention of writing about this topic until I saw a former basketball legend singing Happy Birthday to a North Korean dictator.

It’s January and people everywhere are talking about resolutions, weight loss and healthy living.

As we embark on the journey that will be 2014, there are so many topics I want to discuss but one keeps coming into my consciousness: the area of mental wellbeing for elite athletes.

6-3 was the final score when Ireland beat Italy to clinch their first ever women’s Six Nations title.