Cora has changed the game in more way than one. And what’s more, she isn’t finished playing or changing it

This day fortnight, your county teams will be a few hours either side of their first official collective training session of the season, while seven days later, the kids will finally be able to play outdoors together again

When you’re small, you have to be smart, and it’s been a long time since Irish football was that. But now represents an opportunity

Why frame the debate and questions over the inter-county GAA competitions in such an unadventurous and uninspiring manner? Give them and us the real thing. War. Championship. Plenty of it.

It might not be the greatest league in the world but it’s the bloody toughest in this land

We’d be much better re-examining — and reimagining — our sporting infrastructure and how limited it currently is to adequately stage our own sportspeople, let alone host a World Cup

Behind closed doors the reception from the GAA was often frosty, bordering on patronising

There are certain differences as well as similarities between Gary Keegan’s brief with the national rugby team and the one he had with the boxers

Kevin Martin's terrific new book, The Irish Whales: Olympians of Old New York, documents how an exceptional wave of sportspeople would help transform the Irish from being the runt of New York and American society to being the toast of the town

It’s a time of frustration for sure, but not for despair. And that frustration isn’t necessarily all bad