The offices and the pitches and the gyms may be all but shuttered but sport persists.

Darragh Greene was in Dublin Airport when the world turned on its axis. The Longford swimmer and the rest of the senior national squad were in departures, poised to fly out to a meet in Scotland, when the acting Taoiseach delivered his address — and everything changed utterly, writes Brendan O'Brien.

The National Sports Campus in Abbotstown has been closed to the public as of 9pm last night but the facility remains open to business for Ireland's Olympic hopefuls and other athletes.

For Love Island winner Greg O’Shea, dairy foods play a crucial part in a balanced diet.

Athletes jetting to competitions all over the planet must endure a downside, new research has shown — the travel plays havoc with their gut.

The choice is coming, and Rhasidat Adeleke knows it’s a big one. Should she stay or go?

There may be two months to go, but despite a late start to the year, Ciara Mageean is well ahead of time.

Leading sport psychologist Kate Kirby talks to Kieran Shannon about what it takes to have a winning mentality.

Following a successful 2018, Sport Ireland Institute Director Liam Harbison believes a bright future lies ahead for the next generation of high performance athletes.

Sport Ireland CEO John Treacy has expressed his confidence in the Institute of Public Administration (IPA) delivering a series of robust reform proposals for the FAI.

Generations of professional athletes have struggled with the transition from a life in lycra or gaudy nylon to civvies, but a glance at Claire Lambe’s diary would suggest that the former Olympic rower has negotiated it with ease.

Outside the National Sports Campus, people like Liam Harbison don’t register, a bit like the powerbrokers pulling the strings in the West Wing. Dubliner Harbison is the ‘chief of staff’, one of the most powerful and influential people in an Irish sporting landscape that has capitalised on the political fallout following the Rio Olympics.

“A straight-talking Aussie with a big heart” – that’s how the Irish team’s Chef de Mission for the Tokyo Olympics was described yesterday by Peter Sherrard, CEO of the Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI).

While the years of arduous training has given the O’Donovan brothers the edge to overcome mental challenges, they stress that they always try to inject a bit of fun into everything they do.

Teen boys who want to excel on the pitch are putting their health at risk by using steroids and supplements to build muscle, says Helen O’Callaghan

Few nations embrace their medal-winners quite like Ireland, a country that puts a higher premium on international success due to its rarity.

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

Ongoing across the pond: the controversy over US footballers taking a knee during the national anthem as a protest against police brutality and racial inequality.

Bernard Dunne, the Irish Athletic Boxing Association’s high-performance director, is unperturbed about a supposed talent drain from Irish boxing. Instead, he insists a fresh team are already on course for great things, writes Brendan O’Brien.

Paul McNamara has only been Athletics Ireland’s High-Performance director since April. 

It’s been ten months and two days since the closing ceremony at the Maracana Stadium brought an end to a deeply flawed extravaganza in Brazil but, for the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI), Rio 2016 is the Games that never ended.

Bernard Dunne admitted he would need to fully immerse himself in his new role as High Performance Director at the IABA in order to gain a grasp of the changes required within the Irish amateur boxing realm.