One of Ireland’s Olympic medal favourites, Rhys McClenaghan, says the postponement of the Tokyo Games will leave him even more prepared in his bid for gold.

The 20-year old Down native who will compete on the pommel horse at the Olympics, an event for which he is the current European champion, is relieved that the uncertainty which hung over the Games in recent weeks has been put to bed once and for all.

They say a picture paints a thousand words. That certainly rang true when studying the crestfallen appearance of new Ireland coach Andy Farrell, writes Donal Lenihan.

The National Sports Campus in Abbotstown has been closed to the public as of 9pm last night but the facility remains open to business for Ireland's Olympic hopefuls and other athletes.

In one of the busiest club weekends of the season, the return of the men’s U21 — or more accurately U23 — interprovincial tournament slips into action on Sunday at Garryduff.

After Antrim did Offaly a favour by beating Kerry in Tralee, the Faithful County looked after their end of the bargain by cutting through Wicklow with ease in the second half of their clash at Tullamore.

The race for promotion out of Division 2A of the Allianz Hurling League remains a three-horse race after Kerry, Antrim and Offaly all enjoyed comfortable wins this weekend.

Johnny Sexton threw down the gauntlet to his Ireland team ahead of tomorrow’s trip to Twickenham, saying they will need to play even better there this time than in their Grand Slam-winning victory of 2018.

John Fogarty previews the weekend's GAA fixtures.

If Joe Schmidt could get a mulligan for one moment of what turned out to be a fairly average 2019 for Ireland, you’d guess it would be the first 20 minutes of the Six Nations campaign.

Ireland have won their Six Nations clash with Wales by 24-14 to record a second successive victory under new head coach Andy Farrell.

Whichever way you viewed Ireland’s Guinness Six Nations opening-round win over Scotland seven days ago, there is little arguing with the verdict that Andy Farrell’s players simply have to do better this afternoon against Wales.

As the newly elected President of the FAI, Gerry McAnaney has a six-month term of office in which to play his part in taking the Association from what he calls ‘a very dark place’. In this exclusive interview, the former League of Ireland goalkeeper and Army commandant takes us through his colourful life and times in football.

Just five training sessions into his tenure as Ireland attack coach, Mike Catt is nevertheless expecting “some good stuff” from Andy Farrell’s team against Scotland in Dublin tomorrow.

From Lansdowne Road to Wembley and from Palermo to Ibaraki, Niall Quinn enjoyed plenty of euphoric moments in the green shirt.

But imagine, in the context of what we saw late last year in Japan, had Ireland gone and won those hosting rights.

He may share the same name and position as an international star of the recent past, but Ireland U20s flanker Sean O’Brien plans to make his own reputation.

Ulster Academy prospect Hayden Hyde has acknowledged it was a relatively straightforward decision to choose playing for Ireland over his native England.

Niall Quinn has told Football Association of Ireland staff that the financial outlook isn’t as bad as he’d feared.

IRELAND’S implosion at the World Cup sent ripples in all sorts of directions.

What was described as an “unprecedented” number of match officials came up short in a pre-season fitness test in the National Indoor Arena in Abbotstown on Friday night.

The FAI will today elect a new president at an EGM in Dublin. It’s a two-horse race to replace the outgoing Donal Conway, with board member Martin Heraghty and council member Gerry McAnaney the candidates contesting the election.

The Irish international centre-half is seated in front of the dictaphone, reeling in the years.

John Fogarty previews the weekend's GAA fixtures.

Thirty years after he emerged on the world stage at Italia 90 as ‘The Mighty Quinn’, the big man is being asked to lead Irish football from the front again.

Niall Quinn has said that he has taken up the role of Interim Deputy CEO of the FAI in part because he believes a deal to resolve the Association’s debt problem is in sight.

With teenage sensations Idah, Connolly and Parrott on everyone’s lips, Liam Mackey reports from behind the scenes in Abbotstown as the newest generation of Irish internationals continue with their higher education.

The choice is coming, and Rhasidat Adeleke knows it’s a big one. Should she stay or go?

The development, which was launched in 2016, is a partnership agreement between the FAI, FORAS — the trust that operates Cork City — and Cork County Council.

The official changing of the guard from Joe Schmidt to Andy Farrell took place in Abbotstown on the Sunday before Christmas.

The Leinster wing was among the 45 players invited to the national team’s gathering at the new training base at the National Sports Campus in Abbotstown last week

The new Football Association of Ireland board is set to have its first female director after the Schoolboys FAI (SFAI) last night proposed Ursula Scully as their nominee to replace John Earley.

The FAI will finally publish their 2018 accounts, revealing in full the dire financial state of the association.

It says the decision was made to facilitate the signing-off of the accounts and to ensure that the entire board can be present.

Paul Cooke, newly installed as Executive Lead – effectively now the Association’s acting CEO – gave ample warning at October’s AGM that the figures “won’t be pretty and will shock people”.