Gambling today is a digital drug that we all carry in our pocket.

While for those of us safely on the outside, the ethical path seems clear and the “right” response predictable, for those in the arena of sport and of war, such as the Iranian women’s football team, today’s world is anything but.

For now, all that is certain in the current geopolitical tumult is that we are all, to paraphrase Dante, once a medieval spectator at the Verona arena, on a 'course set for an unchartered sea'

Italy has hosted a Games full of incident on and off the snow and ice. 

The proposition or prop betting market in the US is now hugely popular i.e., discrete, esoteric or “fun” bets on any aspect of a game. It’s estimated that about 60% of the total betting on the Super Bowl will be in this form.

Work at last begins this week on Casement Park, marking a significant 20-year anniversary.

Thirty years ago, one of the most unlikely upsets in football occurred not on the field of play but in the then European Court of Justice

I tried meditation. Didn't work. Set my mind a-whirring. Could you play both Parrott and Ferguson up front against Czechia? Will Watford make the play-offs? Surely there’s one more in Limerick’s hurlers?

On Wednesday and in a world’s first, Australia implemented a social media ban for under-16s. Ireland is watching closely. 

That line came to mind when, as so many migrants do, I had to tune in online to a funeral from home of a neighbour, and GAA club stalwart