Thirty years ago, two Cork men set up the community basketball clubs that dominate the women’s game in this country today.

Hall of Famer Susan Moran is probably the greatest female basketballer Ireland has produced. Today in Manhattan, her contribution to college basketball in America will be recognised. We spoke to the Tullamore native about her career in Philadelphia and her official elevation to legendary status

BEYOND the confines of women’s or schools basketball, he may not have instant recognition, but there can’t be many coaches who have made a greater contribution to the sport over the last three decades than Jimmy Diggins of Tralee.

Ireland 67 Slovenia 59

This Saturday, Ireland’s senior women will take on Sweden at the National Basketball Arena in the first game of their European Championships.

A SECURITY guard was charged yesterday with the murder of a man in a Dublin pub just over a fortnight ago.

GARDAÍ were last night still questioning a man thought to be a leading suspect in a pub murder in Dublin just over a fortnight ago.

Ireland women completely dominated their European Basketball Championship match against Luxembourg, scoring a 90-49 win.

Ireland completely dominated last night's European Championship match against Luxembourg, and comprehensiveky beat them 90-49.

Spirits are high in the Irish camp ahead of their final competitive match this year in the Women’s European Basketball Championship against Luxembourg at the ESB Arena this evening (7.30pm).

The first ever Irish women's European Championship qualifying match to be played on Irish soil will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, September 22, in University of Limerick.

IRELAND’S basketball teams begin the countdown to European Championship action tonight with the first in a series of friendlies.

Susan Moran was last night drafted to the WNBA team, the New York Liberty.