John Treacy has warned that sport's infrastructure could collapse if enough people insist on refunds for membership fees as a result of the coronavirus and the resultant shutdown.

An independent review into the operations of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has been handed over to An Garda Síochána and the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE).

The FAI has announced that the Mazars report has been referred to An Garda Síochána and the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE).

Irish international swimmer Robbie Powell has declared his intention to return to the sport after being handed a one-year anti-doping ban for accidental use of a banned substance.

Irish swimmer Robbie Powell has been handed a one-year ban for a doping violation after Sport Ireland accepted that the then 19-year-old had applied the wrong cream to a skin condition late last year.

Munster Rugby CEO Ian Flanagan lauded reviews into the process of dealing with the James Cronin case as “very thorough”.

A UCC Sport initiative focusing on sport post-lockdown has attracted worldwide interest and support, with UNESCO, the World Health Organisation and the International Olympic Committee among its supporters.

Chairman Roy Barrett has welcomed “significant” new government funding for the FAI as “a vote of confidence” in Irish football.

The prospect of the League of Ireland resuming with teams playing in their home grounds appears to be improving.

The FAI have upped their compensation offers to League of Ireland clubs in a bid to restart the 2020 campaign.

Amateur wrestler Lisa Farrelly has been banned for four years for an anti-doping violation.

Not every elite Irish athlete will be bursting through the doors of their training base next week.

Ireland's Olympic hopefuls are back in business.

FAI council member John O’Regan has echoed the concerns of colleague Nixon Morton by insisting only intervention by Fifa will prevent civil war erupting at committee level.

The FAI board will today review a letter sent by a member of their council to Fifa and Uefa expressing fears that Irish football faces “losing it sovereignty” if proposed reforms linked to a State bailout are implemented.

Sport Ireland’s anti-doping unit hope to return to the regular testing programme on Monday week but insist they have remained vigilant during the lockdown.

Rowing Ireland chiefs have backed calls for an easing of restrictions on the movement of elite sportspeople.

The timing remains uncertain, despite the announcement of a target date for rugby’s return this August, but the protocols for such a resumption are at least becoming clearer.

Rob Heffernan has called for international athletes to be given access to train on athletics tracks across the country, arguing it is a “no-brainer” in terms of safety.

Irish sport has never been awash with cash so it says everything about the current crisis and the impact it has had that the CEO of a leading governing body can describe a half a million euro loss in income as the tip of an iceberg.

If rugby is to follow the sports that are returning earlier, such as English Premier League football, then it will need to implement widespread player testing for the coronavirus, and that will come at a high financial cost.

Rowing Ireland has received “only positive feedback” since the sport restarted yesterday, with CEO Michelle Carpenter happy that the organisation’s intense work ahead of the return to sport has paid off.

The Federation of Irish Sports has called on the Government to urgently introduce a resilience fund to ensure the survival of its member organisations.

Sport Ireland will not appeal the one month ban which Munster and Ireland prop James Cronin incurred for a doping violation to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Crisis Managers: In the latest of a series with the leaders of Ireland's sporting organisations, FAI interim CEO Gary Owens , outlines what's at stake for the infrastructure of football.

Athletics clubs can open their outdoor facilities to runners from next Monday, but only those living within 5km may attend.

In the second of our series with Ireland's sporting leaders, Mark Kennelly, CEO of Golf Ireland, discusses the challenges posed by the current crisis and the opportunity that comes with the game's return to play on May 18.

Former Mayo manager Frank Browne hopes that those involved in the county's ladies football split will now bury the hatchet for the good of the players.

A mini-tournament involving last season’s top four clubs is being considered to help prepare them for European competition but it looks increasingly unlikely that the League of Ireland proper will return before September at the earliest.

Athletics Ireland chief Hamish Adams says while it’s difficult to predict when athletics will return, the governing body will need to be “innovative” when running events after the lockdown.

Irish motorsport is targeting a phased return to action from July 20, in keeping with government guidelines, with rallying not returning until at least August 10.

The IRFU’s welcome of the Irish Government’s roadmap out of the current Covid-19 pandemic concentrated on the positive impact of last Friday’s announcement on domestic rugby.

Irish rowers set six world records on an incredible weekend for the sport with competitors nationwide covering over 27 million metres.

Here's the trade-off, a see-saw in his psychology that can go either way on any given day. For Thomas Barr, there are mornings where he skips down the stairs and relishes the thought of lifting weights in his living room.

The judicial officer who heard James Cronin’s anti-doping violation case has defended his decision to hand the Munster player a one-month suspension.

The GAA has defended its anti-doping education programme after a Carlow footballer, who says he didn't receive any such training, failed a test.

Irish adults have adapted well to Covid-19 lockdown measures and are walking more and exercising as much as they were this time last year, a new survey has found.

Sport Ireland has yet to decide if it will appeal the one-month suspension imposed on Munster forward James Cronin for an anti-doping violation committed late last year.

Sport Ireland are still reviewing the James Cronin doping violation decision and have yet to decide whether they will appeal his one-month suspension to the Court of Arbitration in Sport.

The last recession was still digging its teeth deep into the country’s economy and it’s very soul when the Federation of Irish Sport peered into a crystal ball and imagined what the landscape would look like eight years down the line.

Sports Minister Brendan Griffin met sporting representatives to stress the government’s commitment to a range of vital supports which is helping "sport in Ireland to survive” during the current crisis.

Top executives from the GAA, FAI, IRFU, and Sport Ireland were included on the call.

Gerry McGuinness felt he knew what lay ahead when he was voted in as president of the Community Games at last month’s AGM at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Sligo.

The tender issued by the body which oversees and partly funds sport in Ireland wants to increase the number of adults and children participating in sport and reduction in sedentary lifestyles as a result.