Stephen Roche admits cycling could have saved itself years of turmoil had it taken Paul Kimmage’s revelations in his book Rough Ride more seriously when it was published in 1990.

Paul Kimmage said he felt like a member of the Beatles when he lay down, drowned in a pool of his own sweat, on the kerb at the top of O’Connell Street, basking in the moment of helping secure the Nissan Classic for his Irish compatriot Sean Kelly in 1987.

I am married. I have two children, a boy and a girl, and I am 40-years-old. Anto Finnegan is married. He has two children, a boy and a girl, and he is 40-years-old.

Sports writer Paul Kimmage has revealed Brian O’Driscoll’s decision to give an interview to one paper ahead of another was behind the journalist’s decision to pull out of ghost-writing the rugby legend’s autobiography.

Paul Kimmage has resigned as ghost writer for Brian O'Driscoll's autobiography.

Paul Kimmage has admitted he may never again speak to his one-time colleague David Walsh.

The Irish writer who was targeted with legal action by the UCI has spoken of his relief that the international cycling union has dropped its case – and called for Hein Verbruggen to be removed as honorary president.

The UCI has dropped its legal action against the Irish writer Paul Kimmage, the cycling body's new president has confirmed.

This month sees the tenth staging of Reel Youth, which is making a strong case to become Ireland’s national youth film festival.

Dan Martin says he's prepared for a big tilt at the Tour de France: “Last year I went in a bit more nervous but this year I’m ready to race really proactively. I know what to expect.”

A 43-year-old man is due before a sitting of Dublin District Court tomorrow morning, charged in connection with a stabbing yesterday morning in south Dublin.

The two Irish sportswriters who doggedly pursued Lance Armstrong throughout his career have dismissed the disgraced Texan’s TV confessional as a futile, desperate bid to mount one last climb — this time, out of the gutter he has mired himself in.

Journalist Paul Kimmage, a former Tour de France rider and long-time critic of Lance Armstrong, was so frustrated by Oprah Winfrey’s line of questioning of the drugs cheat that he said he “wanted to put (his) boot through the television”.

Now Lance has been outed as a cheat, the journalist has taken aim at British Mod-God Wiggins.

Irish author and campaigning sportswriter Paul Kimmage has hinted that disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong may come clean about his drug-fuelled rise to the top of the sport.

Six days after the Union Cycliste International (UCI) suspended their defamation case against author and journalist Paul Kimmage, the Irishman launched a counter-case of his own last night against UCI president Pat McQuaid and former UCI president Hein Verbruggen, accusing the pair of slander/defamation, denigration and “strong suspicions of fraud”.

Irish journalist Paul Kimmage has lodged a criminal complaint against International Cycling Union president Pat McQuaid and honorary president Hein Verbruggen in a move which will subject the leadership of the world governing body to further scrutiny.

The UCI and its current and former presidents, Irishman Pat McQuaid and Dutchman Hein Verbruggen have suspended plans to sue Irish journalist Paul Kimmage.

Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond has called for the resignation of Pat McQuaid, the president of cycling’s world governing body the UCI.

Lance Armstrong is now facing the prospect of having to repay millions of dollars in prize money after he was formally stripped of his professional titles.

The two Irish journalists who led the investigations that ultimately led to Lance Armstrong’s exposure as a drug cheat have reacted with scepticism to yesterday’s press conference by UCI president, Pat McQuaid.

As a morality play for our times the Lance Armstrong saga has a pretty hackneyed and distasteful plot.

Just over a year ago, Eugene McGee got into a bit of bother with some of the head honchos in the GAA.

If sportswriting was a sport itself, then America would dominate it something like it dominates basketball.

In 2006 the young English cyclist Bradley Wiggins was celebrating after completing a particularly gruelling Tour de France.

Bradley Wiggins last night became the most decorated British Olympian in history after he claimed a sensational gold medal in the elite men’s time-trial.

A DARK shadow hangs over the reputations of some of Ireland’s greatest athletes and nothing, it seems, can ever remove it.

A drug addict was being held tonight over the murder of his pensioner father with a sword in a retirement home.

Engage: The Rise and Fall of Matt Hampson.

AUTHOR Paul Kimmage has paid tribute to the life-affirming struggle of Matt Hampson, the English rugby player whose paralysis and rehabilitation is told in the book ‘Engage’ which was yesterday voted the williamhill.com Irish sports book of the year.

Somewhere late at night in June, after crossing the Mississippi, the legs will begin to burn and the dark night will close in. That’s when the cyclist begins to question their sanity

With the An Post Sean Kelly cycling team announced yesterday for this Sunday's FBD Insurance Rás, breakingnews.ie has compiled a short history of the cycling team in the lead up to the tournament.

THE leafy avenues of Dublin’s embassy belt have been replaced by the rolling fields of Roscommon as the most desirable address in the land.

A trial in which broadcaster Eamon Dumphy is a central witness has been adjourned until 2pm today at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court shortly after a jury was sworn in this morning.

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