The Hillsborough disaster archive will show the layers of official disdain for the lives of ordinary people from the north of England.

By 2028, it is estimated that around $700bn will be gambled per year.

Identification with sport is invaluable for autocratic regimes. There is nothing new in this.

The complexity of such overlapping identities in Ireland makes a mockery of the interpretations of those who wish to paint the past only in stripes of green or orange.

A new bill proposes to ban foxhunting in Ireland. It has passed the first stage, but the debate has some distance to run 

The GAA at national and local level is a lucrative opening for betting companies. Those laying bets will be attempting to fuse local knowledge, blind faith, traditional beliefs and more into a decision-making process that is fraught with risk

Horse racing was understood to be Ireland’s national sport before the establishment of the GAA in the late 19th century.

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.