The World Para Swimming and World Para Powerlifting Championships, which were postponed due to the Mexico earthquake, have been rearranged.

The World Anti-doping Agency is "encouraged by this sign of progress" after president Vladimir Putin admitted Russia's anti-doping system had "failed" and urged it to reform.

The afterparty has begun. The XV Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro opened with a feat to defy expectations in a carnival atmosphere at the Maracana Stadium.

All seven of Elizabeth and Jim Lenihan’s children have been immersed in sport growing up in Deliga, near Milford.

Let’s not pretend that this, for the most part, is somehow different.

The Swiss Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal from the Russian Paralympic Committee to allow its athletes to compete in the Rio Games.

Fresh from Olympic glory with his brother, Paul O’Donovan is on course to win another world-beating rowing accolade tomorrow, this time without Gary in the boat behind him.

The Rio Paralympic Games will go ahead as scheduled next month despite facing "major budget cuts".

Rio 2016's organising committee has confirmed that its appeal against an injunction blocking the release of public funding to pay for the Paralympic Games has been successful.

A Russian diplomat has described the decision to ban their Paralympics team from the Rio Games next month as "filthy and inhumane".

The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) is leading global calls for Russia to be banned from the Rio Olympics and Paralympics after a devastating report uncovered the extent of Russia’s state-directed doping.

Ireland’s Paralympic team has been set a target of eight medals from this year’s Games in Brazil.

Oscar Pistorius’ agent is seeking a meeting with the double-amputee athlete in prison in the next few days to discuss his running future.

Supporters of Oscar Pistorius have voiced their support and prayers for the South African athlete on social media after he was found guilty of culpable homicide (manslaughter) in the death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Luis Suarez’s injury. Italy training in a sauna. Leighton Baines’ reading habits.

Ukraine were set to announce today whether they would boycott the Winter Paralympics in Sochi as the Games prepared to get under way amid an escalating political crisis.

Paralympics Ireland lost one of its leading lights yesterday as Co. Down swimmer Bethany Firth’s bid to change allegiance to Great Britain was given the green light by the International Paralympic Committee.

The head of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said he felt despondent and “like he was in limbo” when Oscar Pistorius was charged with murder.

Race organisers say the London Marathon will go ahead on Sunday despite two people being killed after three explosions brought a tragic end to its Boston equivalent today.

Oscar Pistorius was drug-tested before and during last year’s Paralympic Games in London, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said, adding that on both occasions the results were negative.

The future of the Paralympic movement will not be determined by the outcome of the Oscar Pistorius murder case, according to International Paralympic Committee president Philip Craven.

Doha in Qatar will stage the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships, the International Paralympic Committee has announced.

The most successful Irish Paralympic team in the last 25 years will arrive home this evening to a hero's welcome.

The closing ceremony of the 2012 Paralympic Games is taking place in London tonight.

Irish President Michael D Higgins has led tributes to Team Ireland on their outstanding performance at the London Paralympic Games.

Oscar Pistorius and the International Paralympic Committee are to meet to discuss concerns over regulations governing running prostheses after the South African apologised for the timing of his criticism of Brazilian rival Alan Oliveira.

Oscar Pistorius led the calls for tougher regulations on running blades after the London Paralympics delivered their biggest shock so far.

While the vast Irish contingent was raising the decibel level at London’s ExCel Arena yesterday, RTÉ’s stars were roaring Katie Taylor on to glory at the launch of the station’s autumn schedule.

Heathrow Airport has announced it is building a special terminal just for Olympic athletes.

THE party for the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games in Athens was cancelled yesterday after a bus taking Greek high school students to watch the games smashed into a truck loaded with glass, killing seven teenagers.

A bus taking Greek high school students to watch the Paralympics in Athens smashed into a truck loaded with glass today, killing seven teenagers.

Two Paralympic athletes from Azerbaijan have been banned for life after failing drugs tests at the Athens Paralympics, organisers announced today.

Irish wheelchair athlete Patrice Dockery has been reinstated in the field for tomorrow night's Paralympic T54 5000m final in Athens, following a meeting of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

The Paralympics Winter Games has officially been opened by 450 physically challenged athletes from 36 countries.