The words of the head of the Tokyo Organising Committee for this year’s Olympic Games, Yoshiro Mori, left no doubt of how he views women

The immediate question has to be: What impact will this have on the ordinary people interested in the game?

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the deletion of the 'Ban on Foreign Games' from the GAA's rule book.

The lived reality of life in the GAA mean that overt Catholicism could be witnessed at every level of the Association

Taking more money from State hard to justify within the ambit of a “community-based amateur organisation”

The song doesn’t necessarily have to be a great one – or even a good one – but if it connects a sporting success with people and place, it invariably moves at least some people to tears

Like all great sporting occasions, All-Ireland hurling final day carries a social and cultural significance that passes far beyond the playing field, the two teams, the result

Dublin were so utterly dominant in every phase of the Leinster final was as if the teams were playing two different sports

The idea of organised games was seized with passion; all across Waterford there was massive interest with great crowds turning out to games. But every game played was a football one.

This championship has also served to do is to remind us of the beauty of a straight knockout competition