In short South Africa tend to deliver at World Cups – to the extent they’ve delivered the Webb Ellis itself three times – and Ireland don’t.

As unlucky as he has been, you can only be so unlucky for so long. You can only lose for so long. Even the best can last in one place so long.

The referee for Ireland and Romania credits McHugh, his 'sounding board, critic and crucially a friend', even going so far as to refer to him as 'grandfather'

One of the reasons the kids want to play the sport, one of the reasons why an adult wants to stay in the sport, is being able to express themselves. Make decisions for themselves

Ciara Mageean is one of the four fastest women over 1500m, the fastest non-African on the planet. Adeleke is one of the four fastest women in the world over 400 metres

Last Sunday Mick Bohan and Dublin got the kind of performance that teams and coaches aspire to but rarely experience: on the biggest day of all they had produced their best

Of the Dublin women’s team that started and won the 2020 All-Ireland final, seven All-Star awardees have subsequently retired or taken a sabbatical

The glory of Clifford is we should have years more of watching his pursuit of it.

All their finals have been still in the balance entering the last 10 minutes and in all those finals they have never been the ones to lose their balance or at least lose the game

While 2023 could indeed prove to be as good a shot as they’ll ever get at reaching an All-Ireland, it does not represent their last shot