Farrell was asked if Ireland would have to become a different team without Sexton, like when Queen went on the road without Freddie Mercury.

The hurling champions, St Thomas’, are your classic club championship case study, an amalgam of townlands that amounts to a few hundred houses on the road from Loughrea to Gort, the kind of place the competition’s sponsor would use in an ad campaign.

His squad announcement suggests Andy Farrell is not going to hand the keys of a new era to a bunch of ruddy-cheeked whippersnappers,

While the exploits of Luke Littler were among the delights of the festive season just gone, there was one faction for whom the 16-year-old arrowsmith’s rise to fame was less than ideal.

Back to Germany this time for a European football championship, where a mix of nations and a sprinkling of booze will smoothen the edges of national character as everybody clicks in together like a silly children’s jigsaw. Hopefully...

Sexton was made up of loves and fears and shame and pride just like the rest of us.

The new Club World Cup is an orgy of unnecessary.

It is difficult to know what to think about the Wrexham and Girona stories

The news that world no.3 ranked Jon Rahm is mulling over a reported $600 million offer from LIV doesn’t generate the shock that it might once have.

It was Katie Taylor’s lot to have her redemption night associated with Conor McGregor, even if only tangentially