A summer’s afternoon on the capital’s main street provided the perfect backdrop for the launch of the Foróige Albert Schweitzer Leadership for Life youth conference taking place in Maynooth this week.

A garda has revealed that the "suspect" phone from which threatening calls were made to a journalist was not the accused's phone, which was itself 'in contact' with a senior garda at that same time.

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Mark Gallagher

Mark Gallagher

Mark Gallagher

Padraig Joyce is as hungry as ever to get a third All-Ireland medal, writes Mark Gallagher.

Mark Gallagher samples the mood on Rule 42 among the key Ulster counties.

ONCE soup and sandwiches awaited inter-county footballers after training sessions. Now it’s more likely pasta and bananas. Mark Gallagher explores the roles of dieticians in the world of the GAA.

Mark Gallagher

IT WAS welcome and timely to read Dick Warner’s column ‘Celtic nation theory rejected’ (Irish Examiner, September 13) and Mark Gallagher’s feature ’Face up to it: we’re a mongrel nation’ (Irish Examiner, September 27).

Brian McEniff has vowed to remain as Donegal football manager despite all the disappointments and controversies of the past four weeks. He explained his reasons to Mark Gallagher.

Colm O’Connor and Mark Gallagher examine the media policies and structures of the remaining counties in this year’s football and hurling championships.

Mark Gallagher

Mark Gallagher

Once the preserve of endurance junkies, the gruelling sport of triathlon is enjoying a surge of popularity across the world. Ireland’s very own ironwoman tells all to Mark Gallagher.

Supporting your club is a lifelong experience, but now, it seems, it carries into the afterlife also. Joe McNamee and Mark Gallagher reports on the latest fan craze.

Want something to read on World Book Day today? Mark Gallagher talks to Joseph O’Connor, whose latest novel became a best-seller a year after publication.

When sprawling suburbia enveloped Castleknock and Blanchardstown, the local GAA club didn’t sit on their hands. St Brigid’s instigated a juvenile programme which has brought them all the way to an All-Ireland Club SFC semi final on Sunday. Mark Gallagher visited Dublin 15.

Chelsea'a season comes down to a noon showdown with unbeaten Arsenal on Saturday and Frank Lampard another chance to prove he can compare with the very best midfielders in Europe. He spoke to Mark Gallagher.

Mark Gallagher wipes a tear from his eye as he recalls 365 sporting days of highs and lows, winners and losers, some guts and a lot of glory.

When Mick O’Dwyer left Kildare, everyone presumed his son went with him. Not so, as Karl O’Dwyer explains to Mark Gallagher.

After a season of resignations, sackings and splits, the intercounty management landscape is dramatically reshaped. Brendan Larkin, Brendan Mooney and Mark Gallagher report.

Elimination from the Euro 2004 finals is an unpalatable possibility for Spain and their galaxy of stars tonight in Oslo. Mark Gallagher reports...

The GAA’s season of Sundays turned into a closed season of sackings and resignations. How comethe manager giving seven days a week for nothing ends up with the same amount of thanks, asks Mark Gallagher.

After enduring a tortured summer of suspension, Tyrone’s Gavin Devlin now stands on the brink of All-Ireland glory. Mark Gallagher reports.

Diarmuid Marsden and Steven McDonnell have become the most feared strike partnership in the land. And the most respected. Mark Gallagher reports.

The pressure is mounting on Tyrone to deliver the elusive All-Ireland title, with many pundits believing this may be the breakthrough year. But Cormac McAnallen has endured the expectation before and now he is taking things one game at a time. Mark Gallagher reports.

The most maligned football province will provide half of the weekend’s Championship quarter-finalists. How come, asks Mark Gallagher.

Garvan and Clancy? Much like the Laois footballers, you mightn’t have heard much about them before this summer odyssey. But that’s all changed. Mark Gallagher reports.

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Mark Gallagher assesses Mayo’s chances of success with their manager John Maughan

The magic of the FA Cup weekend will have a very strong Irish flavour, especially among the lower ranked teams writes Mark Gallagher

Once seen as the preserve of only provincial and All-Ireland champions, the team holiday is fast becoming a common January past time. So who is going where in 2003? Mark Gallagher and Colm O’Connor investigate.

Mark Gallagher looks at how Reilly put the boys from Collon firmly on the map

His three-try show against Fiji has put him in the limelight. But, as Mark Gallagher discovered, Kevin Maggs prefers to be known as a team player

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THE Football Association of Ireland have refuted suggestions that moves were afoot to coax Roy Keane back into the Irish international team.

This has been a remarkable championship campaign for the minors of Longford. Their progress to the Leinster title and through the All-Ireland series has captivated the entire county. Mark Gallagher reports.

It's the hottest ticket in town as stage set for a weekend feast of football. Mark Gallagher looks at the mouth-watering prospect of the four All-Ireland football quarter-finals

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By Mark Gallagher, Seoul

By Mark Gallagher, Seoul