Last week, Donegal’s Michael Murphy took up rugby as he spent a week with Clermont Auvergne.

Kelly O’Brien loves ice hockey and isn’t adverse to hanging out at pop-up ice skating rinks in December so she couldn’t resist trying out Red Bull extreme ice skating.

A CANADIAN sports promoter plans to showcase ice hockey violence in Prince George in two months by getting rid of the boring gameplay and focusing on what hockey fans really want — blood-splattering, bare-knuckle, on-ice brawls.

ICE HOCKEY’S NHL in America is on the brink of becoming the first American sports league to lose an entire season due to a labour dispute.

The exodus of National Hockey League (NHL) stars to European teams during the US lockout has reached epidemic proportions with 276 NHL players on the move according to the International Ice Hockey Federation.