There are few more interesting interviewees in Gaelic football than Michael Darragh Macauley and he was in top form again last week when conducting a round of promotional media chats.

The assignment for Boston Celtics forward Marcus Morris in his first start this post-season was easy to explain but nearly impossible to execute: Guard LeBron James and keep the four-time NBA MVP from running the Celtics out of their own gym in the NBA’s Eastern Conference finals for the second year in a row.

The moment required brilliance. LeBron James delivered again.

Pallotta’s backroom group is focusing more on computer analysis of players and opponents, using methods developed by an American data team, writes David Shonfield

It didn’t take the hurlers of Dublin, Tipperary, Clare and Galway long to discover Boston’s list of priorities last Friday when they landed for the Fenway Classic Super 11s.

The assault on the importance of language and facts continues apace. Propagandists are not new to our world, but their capacity to spread their message is now much greater than before. 

Gary Daly and Arthur McDonagh face off in an all-Fermoy Mick Barry Cup final to fill the last spot in next month’s King of the Roads semi-final.

A Dutch art sleuth who claims he is following two possible leads in the largest art heist in US history is hoping a $10m reward will help track down the collection stolen from a Boston museum in 1990.

Kevin Durant does not need to be told that Golden State Warriors should have a muted celebration after winning the Western Conference finals.

Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi has rejected the Italian city’s bid for the 2024 Olympics, effectively dooming the capital’s candidacy for the second time in four years.

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr knows just what his players are going through down the stretch of a potentially record-setting season. Having stumbled to the finish of a 72-win season as a player with the Chicago Bulls two decades ago, Kerr is watching his Warriors do the same.

Between Mr Sepp ‘Steering The Ship’ Blatter (see elsewhere on this page), Mr Patrick ‘Golf Balls’ Neary (see the finance/comedy section) and Mr REDACTED REDACTED’REDACTED (see various legal eagles), it hasn’t been a great few days for prominent personages.

On Monday, the Boston Celtics were the surprising beneficiaries of one of the most generous systems in professional sport.

One of the clubs behind the new concussion substitution proposal for Gaelic football and hurling admits it’s open to abuse. 

The US northeast struggled to dig out yesterday from another major winter storm that made February the snowiest month in Boston’s history, but bitter sub-zero cold and huge drifts hampered the effort.

Cheaper and better robots will replace humans in the world’s factories at a faster pace over the next decade, driving down labour costs by 16%, a report has said.

A potentially historic blizzard could dump up to three feet of snow on a large part of the US north-east, the National Weather Service has said.

Take it again. Tim Smyczek’s simple act of sportsmanship in his Australian Open match with Rafa Nadal won’t endure in sporting folklore, says Larry Ryan.

Cavan are considering appealing Gearoid McKiernan’s proposed two-match McKenna Cup ban arising from Sunday’s victory over Monaghan.

Jim Culloty blamed the ground for Lord Windermere’s below-par run in the Lexus Chase over Christmas and all roads still lead to a defence of the Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup on March 13, for which 35 entries have been revealed.

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Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have asked a judge to make prosecutors turn over family-related evidence as they try to build a case that his older brother was the “main instigator” of the deadly attack.

New Year’s Day. Mount Corbitt, Churchtown, Mallow, Co Cork.

When times were tough for Clodagh Scannell at Boston University (BU) she could always count on her people back home.

In the small hours of Monday morning, just south of a bitterly cold Boston, Tom Brady and the New England Patriots finally overcame the Denver Broncos in an instant NFL classic that provided almost everything.

The way the Boston Red Sox clinched the World Series this past week is almost too corny to be true.

Forever burned into my memory from the New York Jets game this past Sunday will be my good friend Rob Gallo leaning back at an almost impossible angle, silent joy gripping his face, his eyes wide, his happiness complete.

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston president Eric Rosengren, a consistent backer of record stimulus who votes on policy this year, said the Fed refrained from tapering its bond purchases last month because growth was lower than forecast and fiscal policy posed a risk to the outlook.

He’d won over the judges but Danny O’Connor’s face and entire demeanour seemed more like a swollen tribute to some sort of courageous defeat.

Boston cardinal Sean O’Malley skipped a college commencement in protest at its decision to honour Taoiseach Enda Kenny, who backs laws to permit abortion.

A small group of demonstrators has gathered outside Boston College in protest at Taoiseach Enda Kenny's presence at the college's commencement ceremony.

There has been broad support for the Taoiseach in Boston’s Irish community, despite a planned protest against proposed abortion laws when he delivers the commencement speech at the Boston College graduation ceremony today.

By Mary Regan, Political Correspondent in Boston

The Boston Marathon bombing suspects intended to blow up their remaining explosives in Times Square, New York City officials have said.

Neil Diamond is donating some of this week’s sales from Sweet Caroline to Boston Marathon blast victims after the tune became a source of comfort following the bomb attack.

The 19-year-old college student wanted over the Boston Marathon bombings is seriously ill in hospital and unable to be questioned after a manhunt that left the city virtually paralysed and his older brother and accomplice dead.

Police in Boston have surrounded a building in the suburb of Watertown as they hunt a teenager they suspect was involved in the bomb attack on the city's marathon.

In what could be a major break in the case of the Boston Marathon, police are hunting a man seen in a department-store surveillance video dropping off a bag at the site of the bombings that killed three people.

Former Boston Marathon winner Neil Cusack pledged to return to the city of his greatest triumph in a gesture of solidarity after Monday’s bombings.

A few things seem pretty certain about the Boston bombings.

Gail Goodrich knew Miami would beat Boston the other night.