Sport Ireland has announced a multi-year investment of more than €3 million in National Governing Bodies of Sport through the re-launch of the Women in Sport Programme.

Sport Ireland says opportunities to participate in sport and outdoor activities are being blocked by the rising cost of insurance.

Ireland rugby Grand Slam winner Lynne Cantwell has been appointed to lead a major new drive to break down the barriers to women in sport.

Sport Ireland have joined the chorus asking that the Russian Anti-Doping Agency not be reinstated.

Teen boys who want to excel on the pitch are putting their health at risk by using steroids and supplements to build muscle, says Helen O’Callaghan

Sport Ireland (SI) have confirmed they are withholding Government grants due to inter-county players from last year — but on the basis that they don’t have an agreement in place with the GPA for future drug-testing measures.

Athletes, be warned: rolling the dice with supplements may cost you your career, your income and leave a permanent stain on your reputation.

Sport Ireland has defended its handling of Steven Colvert’s doping case in the wake of a claim by one of the world’s leading anti-doping experts that the Irish sprinter was wrongfully convicted.

The head of Irish anti-doping has warned GAA players that ignorance is no longer an acceptable excuse when it comes to athletes who test positive due to the use of supplements.

Promising motorsport starlets Derry’s Callum Devine, 23, and Mullingar’s Jordan Dempsey, 17, scooped the main prizes at the Beta Tools Motorsport Ireland awards ceremony at Dublin’s

it might have been Jim Gavin who appeared in front of the media on Sunday but he could have been mistaken for Little Britain’s Vicky Pollard with his “yeah but, no but” defence of Diarmuid Connolly, writes John Fogarty.

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Sport Ireland (SI) anti-doping chief Dr Una May has taken issue with a number of claims made by Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice in relation to Brendan O’Sullivan’s case.

Of 1003 anti-doping tests carried out by Sport Ireland last year, four resulted in rule violations. Yet, over 40% of Irish athletes surveyed by Sport Ireland claimed to personally know someone who used banned substances.

Shocking, embarrassing, and disappointing. That was sports minister Shane Ross’s response yesterday to the double scandal to engulf Ireland’s Olympic dream in Rio. Who is to blame, asks Daniel McConnell

Ireland’s Olympic boss Pat Hickey has been told by sports ministers Shane Ross and Patrick O’Donovan to clarify urgently what he knows about the ticket touting scandal.

Jim Gavin maintains Dublin followed the GAA’s anti-doping protocols when their two tested players missed out on the Laochra event after last month’s Division 1 final.

The Irish Sports Council’s Director of Anti-Doping has not ruled out blood testing GAA players on matchdays.

Confirmation that a GAA player has tested positive for a banned substance was inevitable, according to Gaelic Players Association (GPA) chief executive Dessie Farrell.

2016 is set to be another landmark year in the history of the GAA, after it was confirmed yesterday that blood testing would be carried out in the association for the very first time.

Schools need to employ different strategies to get more girls involved in physical education classes, writes Helen O’Callaghan.

A prominent Gaelic footballer is endorsing a website that advertises a banned supplement, which may be linked to a number of deaths.

All-Ireland champions Clare were among five top hurling counties who were absent for mandatory drugs tests last year.

Athletes who may have deprived Irish competitors of major championship medals in the past will be identified as drug cheats thanks to new testing techniques for retrospective violations, according to a global leader in the anti-doping movement.

Irish athletes face more stringent anti-doping tests than many of their international rivals, claims the Irish Sports Council’s anti-doping programme director Dr Una May.

John Fahey, the president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, has hit out at the Premier League and other top soccer divisions across Europe for not doing enough in the fight against drugs.

Locating inter-county sides for drug testing is one of the major issues facing the Irish anti-doping unit, according to their annual report.

MARTIN FAGAN has been banned for two years by the Irish SportAnti-Doping Disciplinary Panel for using EPO.

IRISH athletics is facing a doping scandal heading into the Olympic Games with unconfirmed reports that a prominent athlete has failed an out-of-competition drugs test carried out last month.

THE Irish Sport Council has launched a pioneering iPhone app that will enable athletes to check if any medications they intend to use are banned.

TOP rugby schools were hit with a stark warning last night from the chairman of the Irish Anti-Doping Unit that providing food supplements to adolescents was likely to lead to major health and injury issues for players in the long term.

THE Irish Sports Council’s anti-doping programme manager, Dr Una May, has warned drugs cheats will be hunted down and punished through more sophisticated testing and profiling technology.

IRISH anti-doping chiefs have defended tough new legislation which come into force this month.

THE chairman of Horse Sport Ireland, Joe Walsh, yesterday said he was determined to “clean up” equestrian sport in the wake of Lantinus, the horse ridden by Denis Lynch, testing positive for the banned substance, capsaicin, at the Olympics.

GARETH TURNBULL won’t be out of pocket as a result of the lengthy battle to clear his name after testing positive for a banned substance in 2005, the Irish Sports Council confirmed yesterday.

THE Irish Sports Council are to introduce blood testing in the fight against doping.

Two Irish sportsmen last year tested positive for cocaine, a new report revealed today.

THE IRISH Sports Council has ruled out searching the bags of GAA team doctors, with the director of the ISC’s anti-doping programme, Dr Una May, insisting last night that there was “no question” of that happening.

An Irish woman was selected to go to the Athens Olympics today as an independent observer for the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA).

THE Irish Sports Council yesterday defended themselves against criticism of their out-of-competition drug testing procedures for GAA players.