Tradehouse Central Ballincollig are Men’s Division One champions following a comfortable win over Sligo All-Stars at the Ballincollig Community School.

All through last summer, while the indefatigable Mark Tighe kept breaking stories highlighting the scale of the incompetence and mismanagement of the FAI, there was another weekly occurrence in another sport.

Inductees will join a dozen Hall of Fame members

As Irish basketball celebrates its 75th anniversary and hosts another Cup finals weekend, Kieran Shannon speaks to several key figures in the game about its overall health

It became a recurrent theme, on John Delaney visits to 2,000 clubs during his 14 years as FAI chief executive, to conclude by reciting the salutary advice of his mother Joan about always bringing something for his hosts.

Mark Keenan, coach to Men’s Superleague outfit Templeogue, has been appointed head coach to Ireland’s senior men’s programme.

Basketball is poised for its annual Cork extravaganza, as almost 500 players from across the country head south for the National Cup semi-finals weekend.

Irish basketball chief Bernard O’Byrne admits the sport needs some “Irish icons” to help move the game in this country to the next level.

Finally, a bidding ‘war’ Ireland has emerged victorious from, with Cork profiting from the additional bounce of the ball.

Chief executive Bernard O’Byrne has revealed that Basketball Ireland (BI) will stump up the €4,000 shortfall to continue a development officer programme in Cork, mired in controversy, through the rest of this year.

The flotation of AIB has proved to be more lucrative for the Government than had been thought earlier in the week, with shares rising up to 7% as an almost 29% stake of the bank was floated at €4.40 per share.

Ladies basketball officials in Cork are facing local protests and strong criticism from Basketball Ireland over a proposal to axe funding for the sport’s local development programme, run by UCC Demons star Ciarán O’Sullivan.

The Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) has a new president for the first time in 28 years after Swim Ireland’s Sarah Keane was swept in to the position with a vote at the body’s EGM in Dublin’s Conrad Hotel late last night.

Mark Bernsen can’t say if Kieran Donaghy will or won’t play football for Kerry in 2017 but the Tralee Warriors coach is confident the cross-code star will be a regular presence for the new club as it begins life in Basketball Ireland’s rebranded Super League.

Ireland’s elite basketball players will have to keep putting their hands in their own pockets and raising funds independently for the foreseeable future in order to wear the green jersey on the international stage.

More affiliate members of the Olympic Council of Ireland have called for a review of structures within the OCI, as one member organisation insisted a constitutional review was “long overdue”.

Ireland’s men’s team will make an official return to European basketball next year, it was confirmed yesterday.

For the week that’s in it, it’s facile to tee up the respective state of two of our national teams advancing on Europe. Alas, the football and basketball experiences diverge as quickly as they begin.

A Garda investigation is underway after members of an underage basketball team were racially abused online.

Basketball Ireland will enter a men’s team in a new FIBA European club competition.

Another January afternoon out in Tallaght and the National Basketball Arena is throbbing, writes Kieran Shannon.

FORTY FIVE years later, Castleisland’s Christmas basketball blitz in Kerry is still going strong. But getting stronger?

Former FAI chief executive Bernard O’Byrne has been given an extended contract by Basketball Ireland (BI) to continue his role as secretary general until December 2016 with an option for a further two years thereafter.

They are both on a seven-game unbeaten run in the Men’s Premier League and tomorrow Killester and UCC Demons will do battle to take pole position heading into the Christmas break.

New formats, new names, new teams.

Secretary general of Basketball Ireland, Bernard O’Byrne, revealed it will be another five years before the green singlet returns to the senior international stage.

President: Paddy McCaul

SuperLeague basketball is dead. Long live Basketball Ireland Premier League. Basketball Ireland is expanding the top league from eight to 10 teams with Templeogue of Dublin and Belfast Star joining the top flight for the 2013/14 campaign.

Basketball Ireland’s hopes of climbing out of debt by 2017 have been set back after long-time SuperLeague sponsors Nivea ended its association with the sport.

Of the many tasks Alex Ferguson relished when taking the Manchester United job in 1986, addressing the chasm between the club and Ireland featured prominently.

Basketball Ireland head Bernard O’Byrne has said that while there is no direct timeframe in place to return Ireland’s teams to the world stage, he hoped it could happen within the next three to four years, if not earlier.

Irish basketball has taken its first tentative steps towards a return to senior international action.

Basketball Ireland chief Bernard O’Byrne is confident the sport will grow and prosper at all levels in the coming years.

Irish basketball officials are making radical changes to return the game to its height in the 1980s and ’90s.

Jasper McElroy couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Neither could Paudie O’Connor.

RTÉ last night admitted the “current financial climate” is impacting on its highlights coverage of the Allianz Leagues.

The National League Finals will be televised live on Setanta Sports.

BASKETBALL Ireland’s chief executive Bernard O’Byrne has appealed to its clubs “not to go to war” over the Superleague National Cup finals’ move to a Friday night.

BASKETBALL IRELAND has sensationally decided to break with a 25-year-old tradition and belatedly move this year’s Superleague National Cup finals to the first Friday in February to facilitate live television coverage, much to the disapproval of the participating finalists.

BASKETBALL Ireland Bernard O’Byrne secretary general hit out at RTÉ’s coverage of the sport