The long-term effects of sports-related concussion are the focus of a major research project launched in Dublin yesterday.

It was not just the GAA that provided a link between Irish sporting organisations and the 1916 Rising, writes Kevin McCarthy

IAAF president Seb Coe is in favour of erasing world records in international athletics set by suspected drugs cheats, according to UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner.

Sonia O’Sullivan narrowly missed out being elected to the IAAF Council on the day Sebastian Coe was elected the new president of the international athletics governing body.

Clive Woodward wants to replace Philippe Saint-Andre as head coach of France, according to reports in the French press.

The son of IAAF president Lamine Diack has stepped down from his activities with athletics’ world governing body pending an investigation into allegations of a cover-up of doping in Russia.

Olympic chiefs are monitoring the safety and security situation in Russia after a second suicide bomb hit the city of Volgograd, killing at least 14 people.

A minute’s applause will take place at all football matches in the Premier League, Football League and FA Cup this weekend to mark the passing of Nelson Mandela.

The vote to elect the most powerful man in world sport takes place tomorrow after a campaign that has descended into controversy and acrimony.

Sebastian Coe and Sir Chris Hoy have thrown their weight behind British Cycling chairman Brian Cookson’s bid to become president of the UCI, the sport’s world governing body.

Chairman of the British Olympic Association Sebastian Coe has said that it's up to Rory McIlroy to decide what county he declares for at the next Olympics.

Sebastian Coe and Pat Hickey have expressed confidence that Rory McIlroy will tee up at the Olympic Games in 2016, despite the Ulster man’s suggestion last year that he may opt out of the event.

Two years ago, Sam Allardyce, now manager of West Ham, felt the need to get something off his chest.

Former world anti-doping chief Dick Pound today stood by his view that dropping cycling from the Olympics on a temporary basis may be the only way to drive drug-use out of the sport.

Clive Woodward has announced he is to leave the British Olympic Association after six years with the organisation.

Jessica Ennis’ Olympic feat should be recognised by having Sheffield’s Don Valley Stadium renamed after her, former sports minister Richard Caborn has claimed.

This is a story of three journeys. One is the adventurous tale of a young girl whose prowess in a pair of boxing gloves helped gain her sport a place in the Olympic Games.

Nathan Adrian destroyed Australian star James Magnussen’s ambition of adding the Olympic title to his world crown when the American out-touched him by one 100th of a second in the 100 metres freestyle.

Northern Ireland is a central part of the UK’s Olympic efforts despite itsabsence from the Team GB title, British prime minister David Cameron has explained.

A vast worldwide audience is expected to tune in to watch the opening ceremony of the London Olympics tonight.

Gareth Bale could be banned for playing for Tottenham while the Olympics are on - but only if the Football Association lodges an official complaint, FIFA president Sepp Blatter revealed today.

Chris Hoy is set to be named later today as the flagbearer for Team GB at Friday’s opening ceremony of the London Olympics.

The head of the British Olympic Association has called for any spare tickets for the events at the London Games to go to some of the British troops drafted in at short notice to cover the shortfall in security staff.

Half of all athletes taking part in the London Olympic Games will be tested for drugs from today in what is being billed as the biggest anti-doping operation in the history of the games.

Ireland’s 4x400m relay women were officially confirmed as London 2012 Olympians by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) yesterday.

Dwain Chambers was today named in the Great Britain athletics team for London 2012, 12 years on from his last appearance at an Olympic Games, but the stunning pick of Lynsey Sharp as the only athlete in the women’s 800 metres provided the headline selection.

Cork-based basketball player Rachael Vanderwal’s dream of playing at the forthcoming London Olympics has come true.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived tonight at a star-studded gala dinner celebrating the Britain's Olympic and Paralympic athletes.

Official confirmation will come today that sprinter Dwain Chambers and cyclist David Millar are to have their lifetime bans lifted to allow their selection for Team GB for the London 2012 Olympics.

The International Olympic Committee should create a “universal policy” which reinforces Britain’s tough stance on drugs cheats.

Olympic Council of Ireland president Pat Hickey has backed Rory McIlroy’s decision to hold off on declaring whether he will represent Britain or Ireland at the Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

The banning of Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador for a doping offence was a “good day for all the clean athletes of the world”, World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president John Fahey said.

The British Olympic Association will take the fight to keep their lifetime ban for drugs cheats to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, it was confirmed today.

The British Olympic Association’s lifetime ban for drugs cheats violates the global anti-doping code, the World Anti-Doping Agency declared yesterday.

NORTHERN IRELAND manager Nigel Worthington would be happy for his players to make themselves available for a British team at the 2012 Olympics, despite the Irish Football Association’s opposition to the idea.

Footballers from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England will be available for selection for Team GB at the London 2012 Olympic Games after an “historic agreement” was announced by the British Olympic Association today.

Among the many targets for new US Open champion Rory McIlroy in the coming years will be an Olympic gold medal in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 – and he would have a choice to make on which team he represents.

Clive Woodward has appeared to rule himself out of a return to Twickenham as the Rugby Football Union’s performance director.

Top-level talks are taking place about bringing the Olympic torch to Ireland as part of the celebrations ahead of the Games in London next year.

SO what are we to make of the upholding of that two-match ban on W***e R****y then? Right, wrong or, as leading human rights activist Rio Ferdinand would have it, the workings of a lynch mob?

The British Olympic Association today suspended its legal action against the organiser of the London 2012 Games and fresh talks are planned to try to resolve the cash dispute.

West Ham were today officially confirmed as the preferred bid to take over the Olympic Stadium after the London 2012 Games.

Stella McCartney says it's a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to design the Adidas competition wear for the 2012 Olympic Games.