Columns - Irish Examiner

Paul Rouse

The search for Ireland’s greatest tennis player

Mabel Cahill could not be found.

Fri, 08 Sep, 2017

Summer lives on as Mayo and Kerry promise another epic

The fun starts early. The motorways up from the west are busy — so busy that by the time the toll-booths near Enfield are hit, the cars are queuing back five and six deep even though it’s not even close to noon.

Fri, 25 Aug, 2017

Sport played out in perfect setting

It’s Sunday afternoon and the currach races at the Inishbofin Maritime Festival are in full flow. There’s a slow breeze blowing in around the ruin of the old Cromwellian barracks and across the harbour.

Fri, 18 Aug, 2017

Jack Doyle was notorious long before Conor McGregor

Every sports star fits the age in which they flourish. Nowhere was this point more obviously made than when Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather embarked on their four-city press conference tour to sell their forthcoming ‘fight’.

Fri, 11 Aug, 2017

Rise of Irish women’s rugby has been an heroic struggle

The best thing to happen in Irish sport in 2017 is the staging of the Women’s Rugby World Cup, writes Paul Rouse.

Fri, 04 Aug, 2017

A hurling enclave that has stood the test of time

125 years later, Ballyduff’s All-Ireland victory sits as the backdrop to everything that now happens on their beautiful hurling fields, writes Paul Rouse.

Fri, 28 Jul, 2017

Páirc Uí Chaoimh is a stadium more than just bricks and mortar

Having a place to play sits at the heart of the very existence of every sporting organisation. Without such a place, no sport can exist. writes Paul Rouse.

Fri, 21 Jul, 2017

Hurling, like quidditch, owes much to literature

The world of sport, with its seemingly endless capacity to invent and reinvent itself, has demonstrated time and again that there is nothing permanent, nothing resistant to transition.

Fri, 14 Jul, 2017