It’s when you find yourself groaning while pulling on socks in the morning that you realise you have no choice: you will have to become a gym person.

We need to be able to critique women’s sport, and identify the areas where it may not be firing on all cylinders. Anything else is pandering.

News that a National Hurling Action Plan Workgroup had its first meeting earlier this month is a welcome development.

"Opportunities for sub goalies are so rare" says Eimer Ryan as she talks about the thankless job of the back-up shotstopper.

Just as punditry isn’t a replacement for playing, charisma on the pitch is different to charisma onscreen.

It’s often the most vulnerable parts of ourselves that allow us to truly connect and find recognition in others.

There is a bit of sadness, as there always is when a chapter closes, when something good comes to its end.

Why do I come over all tribal when I watch the girls in green? Why am I suddenly bursting with national pride over a sport I’ve never played and don’t intimately understand?

Being inevitably filmed, named, and shamed on social media just makes players feel defensive and victimised rather than reflect on their own actions. Deterrents aren’t always the answer

The progress of women’s sports generally in recent years has been rapid, but this World Cup felt especially seismic.