Sport may shrink in significance in these unprecedented times but the sight of empty stadiums and speculation over the fate of previously ‘untouchable’ events as the Olympic Games and European Championships hammer home just how serious things have become.

Sport Ireland has announced a multi-year investment of more than €3 million in National Governing Bodies of Sport through the re-launch of the Women in Sport Programme.

A schoolgirl who fractured her ankle as she jumped off a trampoline four years ago has settled her High Court action for €35,000.

Seventeen Irish sporting organisations received welcome news yesterday with the announcement that Sport Ireland’s board approved an additional €1.5 million in high-performance funding.

World rowing champions Mark O’Donovan and Shane O’Driscoll don't make the cut for podium funding.

A 17-year-old Irish gymnast has claimed gold in the World Challenge Cup in Croatia today.

It is four years since Kieran Behan expressed the hope that his historic appearance at the Olympic Games in his hometown of London would act as a springboard for the sport of gymnastics in Ireland. Signs are that it has certainly helped.

The Irish Men’s gymnasts have successfully progressed through to the next stage of 2016 Olympic Games qualification from the 2015 World Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow.

Flip through the strategic plan put together by Gymnastics Ireland for the years 2009-2012 and there is no talk of qualifying competitors for Olympic Games, just the vague aspiration to improve international competition results across all disciplines.