Ireland are now the poor relations of the Celtic quadrangle, and comparisons with Northern Ireland are not flattering. 

Rugby has money but it stretches only so far. You see it whenever the sport tries to reach beyond its limits.

A billionaire will put up with a lot of things, but being associated in public discourse with a reasonably priced family hatchback is a slander too far

It's no slight on City to say he is one of those exceptions to that thing about no man being bigger than the club.

One of Heimir Hallgrimsson's strengths is his ability to identify Ireland's shortcomings in post-match interviews. Unfortunately, he seems unable to do anything about them. It's time for radical thinking. 

We are literally right beside the nation that spends the most on buying footballers. It would be like living next to the world’s biggest cider market and never thinking to plant a few apple trees.

Last Sunday was a cultural takeover and it was loud.

We welcome 41-year-old Aaron Rodgers to Croke Park this weekend. How is he still doing it? And why? 

Frank's early progress at Tottenham is a blow for the school of thought that managers need time.

Worthy as they are, all the talk of structures and academies won’t butter any parsnips when the time comes for this Ireland team to go again.