Before the Brazilian and the advent of TV, it was individual sports that most usually produced the most famous sports people in the world.

From cigarette smoke in the dressing room to the fly-kick, here are fifty things you just don't see that much of anymore in sport, or maybe don't see at all

The flows of people around the world is one of the most interesting things in sport and is central to how games have developed. 

A new book tells Ireland's sporting story through 60 lives with class a theme that emerges throughout. 

Collecting objects to tell a story is the central purpose of any museum. And the popularity of museums all around the world gives eloquent testimony to just how important objects are to people.

The online debate over what the game is called quickly descents into ugly rancour online

Ireland has a long affinity with F1. 

It is fitting that this World Cup is being played in a winter. There is too much that is wrong with it to ruin the memory of so many summers.

There was a brilliant bit of journalism recently by Paul Fitzpatrick in The Anglo-Celt newspaper. It asked the provocative question: “Is Cavan still ‘a football county’?” 

The poppy is everywhere on British tv at the moment. And it is present in a way that makes it obvious that someone who is not wearing one in, for example, a television studio covering a soccer match is clearly making a statement of choice.