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 . . .

Open-air swimming enthusiasts are calling for a lido on the River Lee in Cork city

There are six clubs in Beara which will have to produce €30,000 between them.

Last week I had a coffee down in Blackrock, on that nice horseshoe-shaped seating area around the little inlet. It’s a lovely amenity, one which should be replicated in a few more places along the waterfront of the city.

When Aaron Gillane won the ball very near the Tipp goal and wound up for a shot on goal — Sean O’Brien of Tipp got his hurley in

November makes it pretty real, doesn’t it? You can cod yourself through October but the eleventh month gives it to you straight. Rain. Wind. Cold.

Gaelic football, hurling, rugby, and soccer are full of sentences could cause panic within seconds

Off the top of my head, I can think of few others whose physical impact on the city remains so visible, says Michael Moynihan