'Remember in the middle of the lockdown when people were saying they’d appreciate the small stuff and offer people little kindnesses when we could all get out and meet each other again?'

In one sense you’d love to see Waterford and Mayo win it. And graduate they wouldn't be liked anymore

I was going to hold this one until Christmas Eve, but then I realised that would be too late for a Christmas column of this type. I have my reasons. For a more colourful explanation of my logic, see under heading no. 7 below.

Christy Ring: Man And Ball was made by the team which made The Game: The Story of Hurling a couple of years ago

While we know much of the history of Hugenots who died here, but the final resting places of hundreds of children who died in Bessborough remain unknown, writes Michael Moynihan

The success of The Queen’s Gambit, which focuses on a chess prodigy, has brought the great old board game back into the limelight

A space to relax in the city centre — it's not too much to ask. Douglas St has had such a space for a few years. Having originated in California, parklets are set to spread across Cork

For commentators and columnists, Maradona’s career occupied the writer’s version of the Goldilocks zone: not too distant to be impossibly remote, like Puskas or Di Stefano, but also immune from recency bias, so ripe for evaluation

The coffee experience on Leeside is becoming increasingly sophisticated

You know how the weekend went. Of course you do. What we do here and online intersects with some version of Christopher Hitchens’ dismissal of sportswriting (“Matches . . .