There is the sense of a wider national apathy. The days when the national team playing a World Cup qualifying match would have dominated all sporting discourse in the country are now long gone.

Manchán himself has pointed out that he had no real interest in sport, but the way that TG4 presented Gaelic games from the late 1990s offered an entirely new dimension to Irish life.

The only advice to be offered is to play as long as you can. Then play longer. And if you’ve stopped, go back and begin again.

The Association's capacity to bind communities together is vital in a changing Ireland.

A new exhibition at Croke Park will sketch out the countries' intertwined story

Everything to do with this process of globalising sport has accelerated.

Gary Imlach’s book My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes documents a time before a Transfer Deadline yellow ticker.

We're in predictions season again. And, as per usual, all of us are guessing.

The Northern Ireland and Spurs legend deserves to be remembered. 

Plaques unveiled in Nenagh are a fitting tribute in a hurling year that could not have ended in a more suitable way.