A global pandemic may be the only thing that can stop Leinster this season, if Friday night’s nine-try win over Glasgow at the RDS is anything to go by.

Michael Bohane beat Paul O’Reilly in the feature score of the official launch of the Newcastle club on the Dublin-Kildare border on Saturday.

A strong opening and equally smart 10-minute period midway through the second-half delivered the home side a second league win, while also patching over long periods of Kerry mediocrity.

Jordan Larmour will tell you it wasn’t bothering him but then it was him who brought it up first.

A late change of venue, red cards shown to David Clifford and Peter Harte, and a narrowest of wins for Tyrone in this weird and far from wonderful Allianz Football League Division One game.

Jordan Larmour’s is not exactly a hard-luck story but when a player as talented as he rarely gets to put together back-to-back performances in the same position you begin to wonder just how much better he could be.

As the Zurich Portrait Prize comes to Cork for the first time, Ellie O’Byrne hears how our definition of the genre has expanded in the modern age

Cork couldn’t have dreamed of a better start, breaching Stephen O’Keeffe’s goal-line twice in the opening three minutes.

Daniel Kearney has detailed his reasons for withdrawing from the Cork senior hurling panel this year, saying it isn’t feasible to combine a new job with the commitment required for inter-county hurling.

Cork senior hurling manager Kieran Kingston is looking forward to the start of the 2020 National Hurling League but he will have to plan without long-serving midfielder Daniel Kearney.

Andy Farrell believes he will be leading Ireland into a new era with a squad for the upcoming Guinness Six Nations he believes has got the lot.

Andy Farrell's first squad was not one named for shock value, though the omissions are as notable as the new additions.

Con Houlihan adored Casteisland. The iconic sportswriter spent his latter years in Dublin, but never forgot his hometown.

Leinster's bid to claim top seeding for the knockout stages of the Heineken Champions Cup was buttressed by an ultimately convincing win over Lyon in Dublin on Sunday afternoon.

A grim night for the visitors to the RDS. And it could have been much worse.

The Leinster wing was among the 45 players invited to the national team’s gathering at the new training base at the National Sports Campus in Abbotstown last week

There’s something iconic about the mix of red and blue.

Andy Farrell promised his Ireland squad for the 2020 Guinness Six Nations will be picked on form, not reputation.

Galway are opposed to their county senior hurling champions participating in one of the other three provincial championships.

Leo Cullen does not believe Andy Farrell has brought down the curtain on Rob Kearney’s Ireland career.

Although acknowledging the strain on volunteer officers, Galway GAA chairman Pat Kearney is opposed to county boards being taken over by paid staff.

Galway GAA treasurer Mike Burke has said the county is “not getting a fair share” of gate receipts from Leinster Council.

“The abuse the officers have got on social media in the last three months is not acceptable.”

The 'Conna Maradona' joined John Caulfield's backroom team as first-team coach in 2017, as City went on to win the League and Cup double.

Seven tries last week, another seven tonight.

Sit Jordan Larmour at a table and he’s still hard to pin down.

Galway GAA chairman Pat Kearney is to be challenged for the position by businessman Mick Culhane as a turbulent year for the Tribesmen looks set to end with a battle for the top position in the county.

Clandeboye’s Jonny Caldwell moved inside the magical top 25 and Niall Kearney and Gavin Moynihan are lurking in the chasing pack heading into what promises to be a nerve-tingling final round of the European Tour Qualifying School Final Stage in Spain.

Ireland’s quintet of hopefuls have work to do to make the 72-hole cut today after mixed weekends at the final stage of the European Tour Qualifying School in Spain.

Tramore’s Robin Dawson showed his ability to remain patient in his bid for a precious tour card by opening with a two-under 70 at the Final Stage of the European Tour Qualifying School in Spain.

Paul Dunne's nightmare season took on more Dantesque proportions when he was forced to withdraw from tomorrow's Final Stage of the European Tour Qualifying School with a niggling wrist injury.

The difference between Ireland and New Zealand can be summed up in a few words after Saturday’s defeat.

Player ratings on a disappointing end to Ireland's Rugby World Cup campaign

Ireland will have to wait another four years for a crack at a first World Cup semi-final appearance after Joe Schmidt’s tenure as head coach came to an end with a comprehensive defeat to the world champions on Saturday.

There are three changes from the starting line-up Joe Schmidt sent out against Samoa last Saturday for Ireland’s final Pool A game in Fukuoka.

Joe Schmidt will ask his team of All Blacks slayers to do it all over again this Saturday as Ireland attempt to win a World Cup quarter-final for the first time in their history.

As the Galway senior hurlers met last night to discuss recent developments in the search for a new manager, Kevin Lally and Jeff Lynskey are among the names being linked with the vacancy.

Are we witnessing a changing of the guard in Ireland’s last line of defence?

Galway’s hurling managerial crisis shows no signs of abating as the hurling board have asked officials to approach Francis Forde and Noel Larkin to reconsider their decisions to step away from the managerial appointment process.

Counsel said that it had been realised the missing piece of equipment had been sent for repair one month earlier and had never been replaced.

Galway GAA chiefs are coming under pressure to grant a forensic investigation into the county board’s finances.

The Dutch Embassy, rather than plead diplomatic immunity on behalf of one of its official drivers involved in a road accident in Dublin, has settled €60,000 claims on behalf of two cousins injured in the collision.

Robbie Henshaw will belatedly begin his 2019 Rugby World Cup campaign against Samoa on Saturday after Ireland named a team close to full strength in their bid to qualify for the quarter-finals.

From having three candidates for the senior hurling manager’s position last week, Galway GAA may have none by this weekend after Tony Ward removed himself from the race.