All across the elite sporting world there is a dramatic increase in the use of wearable technologies that track basic metrics of performance. The logic of usage is that wearable technology should allow an increasingly information-based approach to such matters as pre-, intra- and post-event analysis of individual competitors, and of teams.

In an earlier era, the torrent of insults that flowed would have been entirely directed at the referee. Now, though, the VAR offers a second focus

There is no doubt that third-level competitions are under pressure given the on-going revision of the calendar and the move to a split season between club and county.

I have a plan. The question is what will happen to that plan when I get punched in the face

When it comes to the playing of women’s sport in Ireland, it is a simple fact that what happened in England was largely replicated in Ireland.

The best thing about Dublin losing in 2021 is what it now means for the 2022 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

Yeats won a silver medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics for a painting entitled, ‘The Liffey Swim’.

The Irish affinity with Formula One racing was most recently manifest in the lives of Eddie Jordan, Eddie Irvine, Derek Daly, and Rosemary Smith.

The bookies' success is rooted in the presentation of losing money through gambling as a form of entertainment, or enhanced enjoyment.

As well as sport that is shown on free-to-air broadcasters (such as RTÉ) and pay-TV companies (such as Sky Sports), sport can now be found on streaming services (such as Amazon Prime), on the websites of newspapers (such as the ‘Irish Examiner’) and on apps run by sports organisations themselves (such as NFL Game Pass) or dedicated to particular sports organisations (such as GAAGO).