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<p>TOO SOON: In football, history is baggage - heavy, monogrammed, and impossible to check in. Arsenal carry 20 years of not winning the league, the “Invincibles” shadow, the Emirates-era softness narrative, the legacies of departures (Wenger), false dawns (Emery), and rebuilds upon rebuilds. This weight is worth at least six points over the course of a season, usually deducted in instalments around March. Picture: HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images</p>

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Colin Sheridan: Small wins, big questions - Arsenal's marathon continues

A legend returns, wins immediately, and dares the world to follow her down the mountain. And really, who among us won’t watch?

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SChristy O'Connor's talking points: Distance is never an issue when will matches commitment

SPaul Rouse: Much has changed in 10 years of this column but sport's importance is a constant

Grangenovlin v Barcelona - AIB Leinster GAA Football Junior Club Championship Semi-Final

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GAA warns of match cancellations as referee shortage and abuse crisis worsens

Barrs only have themselves to blame for Dingle defeat, says top ref Maurice Deegan

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Barrs only have themselves to blame for Dingle defeat, says top ref Maurice Deegan

SAnthony Daly: Ballygunner clearly found the edge they needed

123.ie National Athletics Awards

S 'It never felt like a challenge. It felt like an opportunity' - Derval O'Rourke on the mindset that made her

"Sitting in an RTÉ studio all those years since, you realise how special medals are. I’m really grateful for every medal I have."

Fri, 28 Nov, 2025

Live in-play betting app

S Paul Rouse: Where is the modern rise in gambling leading?

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

Fri, 28 Nov, 2025

Ireland v Australia - Quilter Nations Series 2025

S Donal Lenihan: The man with different boots colouring Ireland's autumn

By all accounts, Farrell’s calm and relaxed demeanour in front of the media this week has been in marked contrast to his approach behind doors

Mon, 17 Nov, 2025

Clonmel Commercials v St Finbarr's - AIB Munster GAA Football Senior Club Championship Quarter-Final

Jimmy Barry-Murphy lauds character and composure of St Finbarr's

The Tipperary champions led as late as the 58th minute, only for the Barrs to land the final four points to swing a 1-17 to 2-11 victory.

Sat, 15 Nov, 2025

2018 Cheltenham Festival - Champion Day - Cheltenham Racecourse

S Ruby Walsh: Cheltenham is a monster because it deserves to be

I have never stood alone and appreciated the venue. I have experienced all its magic, heartbreak, devastation, and elation, but I have never stopped and thought about what it represents.

Sat, 15 Nov, 2025

Ireland v Australia - IRFU 150 Test Match

S Kieran Shannon: Many Irish rugby relationships eventually strained. Not Farrell and Schmidt.

The host of new rugby books released in the last year tell us plenty about the dynamic between Andy Farrell and Joe Schmidt

Sat, 15 Nov, 2025

2025 World Rowing Cup - Saturday

S Tyrant or tough taskmaster: Where's the line for coaches and can results justify means?

Reports of the culture at Rowing Ireland have put high performance coaching under the spotlight here.

Sat, 15 Nov, 2025

Ireland v Japan - Quilter Nations Series 2025

S Ronan O'Gara: They smile at Ireland in that pat-on-the-head sort of way

I come around to asking the same question – are the IRFU digging deep enough on this conundrum? It warrants a serious deep dive into how our World Cup cycles can be better. It hasn’t worked so far.

Fri, 14 Nov, 2025

2025 Annual General Meeting of the Football Association of Ireland

Colin Sheridan: Almost right on Israel, the FAI fail to stand its ground

Even when Ireland gets it right, it fears being seen to do so. That’s the Irish condition, really.

Mon, 10 Nov, 2025

Carlow v Westmeath - Allianz Hurling League Division 1B

S Christy O'Connor: Tom Mullally hopes to make local knowledge count

Tom Mullally has become well accustomed to having plenty of inside knowledge on certain teams

Sat, 08 Nov, 2025

A Fox Hunt Gets Underway In Kent

S Paul Rouse: Debate on foxhunting still hasn't cut to the chase

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

Fri, 07 Nov, 2025

Rhys Shelly and Robert Doyle celebrate 6/7/2025

S Anthony Daly: I felt a little like an imposter when I won my first All-Star

All that has to be decided now is the Hurler-of-the-Year and Young Hurler-of-the-Year. My choice would be John McGrath and Robert Doyle. I wouldn’t be surprised if Jake Morris won the HOTY but I would be if Robert Doyle didn’t win YHOTY.

Thu, 06 Nov, 2025

Ireland v New Zealand - Gallagher Cup Match

S Tommy Martin: Rugby still chasing the dollar but America is a hard place to change

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

Thu, 06 Nov, 2025

Kieran Shannon: 22 years and counting - Neptune still searching for their old spark

S Kieran Shannon: 22 years and counting - Neptune still searching for their old spark

Such homegrown and stay-home leaders are harder to mould and find than before. But it’s Neptune’s job and challenge to identify and mould them and keep them as it is to find a coach who won’t be as quick to bite the dust.

Sat, 01 Nov, 2025

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S Ronan O'Gara: Where rivals have options, we have age-old old-age questions

Irish rugby needs new dreams and inspiration. It needs a new version of itself. We’ve done the No 1-ranked thing. We’ve failed dismally and consistently when it matters. Staleness is an unavoidable consequence of sameness

Fri, 31 Oct, 2025

New Zealand perform the haka 16/7/2022

S Mick Cleary: Five reasons why the All Blacks fixture is still rugby’s draw card

It still does it for me even though there are many who find that the pre-match ritual has become overblown and unnecessary. Ignore them. They are just making a song and dance about a song and dance.

Fri, 31 Oct, 2025

'When homegrown players achieve, that's the real inspiration': Ballinora chair on the important things in GAA

S 'When homegrown players achieve, that's the real inspiration': Ballinora chair on the important things in GAA

A first ever Muskerry U21 A football title was also secured last year while a historic fifth Muskerry Junior A hurling title in a row was lifted just under two weeks ago.

Fri, 31 Oct, 2025

Shoeless Joe Jackson

S Jack Anderson: When gambling sees an opportunity, trouble isn't far behind

GOODFELLAS is one of the great gangster movies. The central character, played by Ray Liotta, is Henry Hill. Hill was in fact a real-life mobster associated with the Lucchese crime syndicate, one of the five Mafia families of New York.

Fri, 31 Oct, 2025

Miami Heat v Washington Wizards

S Paul Rouse: Don't think game manipulation for gambling couldn't happen here

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

Thu, 30 Oct, 2025

Seánie McGrath: Sars are so fine-tuned, so dialed in — that's testament to Crowley and Co

S Seánie McGrath: Sars are so fine-tuned, so dialed in — that's testament to Crowley and Co

From Aghabullogue’s rise to Sars and Midleton’s showdown, Cork’s hurling finals capture the passion, pressure and pride of club sport

Sat, 18 Oct, 2025

Jack Anderson: Sport always follows the money but 'enhanced' sport is eye-opening dishonesty

S Jack Anderson: Sport always follows the money but 'enhanced' sport is eye-opening dishonesty

Don’t be fooled by the faux scientific arguments made by organisers of the Enhanced Games/

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025

Cape Verde v Eswatini - FIFA World Cup 2026 African Qualifier

S Paul Rouse: Cape Verde emotion underlines Ireland's need for an identity

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.

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025

Nemo Rangers made to go the extra by Newcestown in semi-final saga

Nemo Rangers made to go the extra by Newcestown in semi-final saga

The city club found away to eventually get the job done and book a final spot on Leeside once more.

Sun, 12 Oct, 2025

Manchán Magan 16/3/2025

S Paul Rouse: There was nobody in this world like Manchán Magan

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.

Fri, 10 Oct, 2025

Kieran Shannon: Jim Gavin a great football man not cut out for the senior hurling of politics

S Kieran Shannon: Jim Gavin a great football man not cut out for the senior hurling of politics

The scale of Jim Gavin’s fall and fallout means the private and public rehabilitation will take a long time.

Tue, 07 Oct, 2025

Cork Premier SHC: Sars' unflinching faith delivers another October escape

S Cork Premier SHC: Sars' unflinching faith delivers another October escape

For the third October in succession, Sars shaded the county semi-final by a single point. From frequently blinking to an inability to flinch.

Mon, 06 Oct, 2025

Ange Postecoglou Unveiling - City Ground

S Colin Sheridan: Ange Postecoglou walking a fine line of maintaining status to continue run of second-year triumphs

When Shane Lowry holed the winning putt at the Ryder Cup, it felt like a man remembering who he is.

Mon, 06 Oct, 2025

Seánie McGrath: Can surprise docket Barrs keep riding crest of wave to the final?

S Seánie McGrath: Can surprise docket Barrs keep riding crest of wave to the final?

The Barrs are always in the conversation at the beginning of every championship. But it couldn’t be overlooked how poor they were last year.

Sat, 04 Oct, 2025

GAA Special Congress 2024

S Maurice Brosnan: The inside story of the Football Review Committee

If Gaelic football requires another FRC to usher in grand change, it has failed. Saturday is a stepping stone, not the destination.

Sat, 04 Oct, 2025

Trump

S Jack Anderson: In sport, we don't learn from history, we repeat it

I have spent a lifetime in universities. At their worst, academics tell students what to think and what to write; at their best, how to think and how to write. The latter, how to write, is an endangered skill.

Fri, 03 Oct, 2025

Steelers fans on Hill 16 28/9/2025

S Christy O'Connor: NFL show the 46th big non-GAA sporting event at Croke Park

Sunday may have been all razzmatazz but three sellout crowds in the fourth largest stadium in Europe - the largest not used primarily for football – in just the last 17 months proves that there has been a lot more non-GAA events staged in Croke Park than people think.

Mon, 29 Sep, 2025

2025 Ryder Cup – Afternoon Fourball Matches

S Colin Sheridan: America's early collapse leaves to much to do

Fans had cleared their diaries, cancelled plans, and faked their own deaths in HR systems to carve out three days of uninterrupted spectacle. They were promised duels, late-night tension, the crackle of hostility across the fairways. What they got was a European victory parade delivered two days early.

Mon, 29 Sep, 2025

Newcestown into Cork Premier SFC semi-final as they overcome Carrigaline on penalties

S Newcestown into Cork Premier SFC semi-final as they overcome Carrigaline on penalties

In a fortnight Newcestown will play the aristocrats of Cork football, Nemo Rangers.

Sun, 28 Sep, 2025

Autism spectrum disorder ASD written on a paper.

Ciara Reilly: Autism is not caused by paracetamol, vaccines or mothers — it's a natural neurotype

Conspiracy theories about autism persist, but the real issue is not 'causes' — it’s the systemic failure to support autistic people

Wed, 24 Sep, 2025

Kate O’Connor 20/9/2025

Kate O’Connor makes history winning silver in heptathlon at World Championships

Dundalk athlete Kate O’Connor set five personal bests on her way to a historic world silver medal in Tokyo

Sat, 20 Sep, 2025

Dublin v Armagh - GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Round 2

S Paul Rouse: GAA must do more to stand against cowards who claim the tricolour for exclusion

The Association's capacity to bind communities together is vital in a changing Ireland.

Fri, 19 Sep, 2025

Open Workout For LIVE On Netflix: Jake Paul Vs. Mike Tyson

Katie Taylor takes time away from boxing 'to attend to personal matters'

The Bray woman has been named 'Champion in Recess'.

Thu, 18 Sep, 2025

President Trump Concludes Stay In Doonbeg

S Colin Sheridan: Doonbeg decision tethers Irish golf to a name synonymous with division and vulgarity

By choosing Doonbeg, the authorities have made it clear which side they’re on.

Mon, 15 Sep, 2025

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S Ciara Griffin: Set-piece battles and playmaker duels define World Cup quarter-finals

Ireland cannot simply play reactively in Sunday's World Cup quarter-final. They must impose their own rhythm and find opportunities to stretch a French defence that, while robust, can be unpicked with width and pace

Sat, 13 Sep, 2025

Arsenal FC v Real Madrid C.F. - UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Quarter Final First Leg

S Arsenal's artist: Passing Gooners stop and whisper, 'is that him?'

Northbanksy might never sign his name, but around the N5 Arsenal are of north London, his signature is already everywhere

Fri, 12 Sep, 2025

Heimir Hallgrímsson 8/9/2025

S Kieran Shannon: Character not in question but Ireland must eradicate latest flaw

Adam Idah’s header against Hungary last Saturday night followed a rich tradition of Ireland levellers.

Tue, 09 Sep, 2025

Cork v Tipperary - GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Final

S John Fogarty: Hurling gets nicher as football gets richer

The demise of the All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals would have knock-on effects.

Tue, 09 Sep, 2025

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S Ronan O'Gara: A new start, but any other coach would have been sacked by now

This is my fifth season in charge, and I’m fairly sure some lads are tired of hearing my voice. That’s fine, I’m working on that

Fri, 05 Sep, 2025

APTOPIX Israel Palestinians Gaza

S Jack Anderson: Amid crimes against humanity, sport has been largely silent and played on

Surely now for international sport, there cannot be a wrong argument when it comes to the need to do something, anything, symbolic, meaningful or otherwise to condemn what is happening in Gaza?

Fri, 05 Sep, 2025