It was fitting that the youngest member of the Irish Winter Olympics team carried the tricolour at last night’s lavish closing ceremony in Sochi.

Irish snowboarder Seamus O’Connor’s Sochi adventure came to a disappointing end yesterday as he narrowly failed to qualify for the final of the halfpipe discipline at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Ireland’s Seamus O’Connor secured a spot in the semi-finals of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics men’s snowboard halfpipe competition today.

Teenager Yulia Lipnitskaya stole the show as host nation Russia won their first gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, with their figure skating team triumphing in some style at the Iceberg Skating Palace.

Ireland’s Seamus O’Connor remains confident a place in the final of the slopestyle snowboarding event can be secured tomorrow morning.

Ireland’s Seamus O’Connor will have another chance to qualify for the finals at the Winter Olympics in Saturday morning's semi-final.

The doomsday scenarios surrounding the Winter Olympics seemed as plentiful as the snow which covers the sprawling complexes of Sochi and its hinterland.

It’s not as prestigious as the track-and-field, but since its inception in 1924 there has been plenty of drama on the slopes, says Jonathan de Burca Butler

Just a few hours north of Sochi is the city of Maykop, where Seamus O’Connor’s maternal grandparents were born.

It’s unlikely there is an Olympian alive who can’t recall where they were when news filtered through that they had been selected to represent their country, but few can tell as unique a tale as Florence Bell.

Alpine skier Conor Lyne will lead a five-strong Ireland team to the Winter Olympics in Sochi next month.

The Olympic Council of Ireland received an email containing terrorist threats ahead of the Sochi Winter Olympics.

Chances are that, unless you are part of that the minority among us who claim membership of the athletics community, you have never heard of Sanura Eley O’Reilly.

The fingerprint of a Dublin man accused of membership of the IRA was found on a plastic bag used to wrap a sawn-off shotgun, his Special Criminal Court trial has heard today.

UNDER pressure throughout the event, Waterford’s, Craig Breen (Ford Fiesta) and his Welsh co-driver, Gareth Roberts were crowned the FIA WRC Academy Champions after clinching the title with victory in Rally GB, the final round of the series to claim the top prize worth €500,000.

GHOST hunters and paranormal enthusiasts take note — something spooky is happening in Carlow.

THE basketballers of Gleneagle Killarney contest a national cup semi-final this weekend for the first time since 1996, but nostalgia addicts must go back to the Eighties for the glory days of basketball in the Kingdom.