It’s 11 years since Chloe Magee picked up her sole AIG FZ Forza Irish Open Badminton title and after last year’s loss in the mixed doubles final, she thinks it’s high time herself and her brother Sam added to their haul of silverware on home turf.

Amy Foster has equalled the Irish indoor 60m record to qualify for March’s World Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, writes Will Downing.

Ireland’s Under-18 girls’ basketball squad are aiming to write themselves into the history books tonight as they prepare for the quarter-final of the FIBA European Championship against Israel in Dublin.

“I make no apologies for it — I’m the guy who wants to bring the Olympics to Dublin.”

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.

It is four years since Kieran Behan expressed the hope that his historic appearance at the Olympic Games in his hometown of London would act as a springboard for the sport of gymnastics in Ireland. Signs are that it has certainly helped.

Our boxers, used to gruelling training camps in places like Russia, will finally be able to entertain the world’s best in their own backyard, writes Brendan O’Brien

A range of transport, sport, and tourism projects are set to benefit from €100m in additional Government funding.

Ireland’s elite amateur boxers are to be catered for in a state-of-the-art training facility in the National Sports Campus.

IT’S 20 years since this column sat down to complete the Leaving Cert – for a second, excruciating time – but it is probably some sort of twisted pseudo-tribute to that daunting time in all our lives that scraps of the information we had to learn by rote occasionally jostle their way back to the forefront of the mind when least expected, writes Brendan O’Brien.

ROAD-side drug testing devices, using saliva swabs to detect a range of substances, will be introduced over the coming months, as part of a renewed focus on cutting road deaths.

As both a player and coach, Mark Keenan has been at the heart of Irish basketball over the past quarter of a century. Tomorrow he coaches a SuperLeague selection to face a British All-Star side — just recognition for one of Ireland’s foremost coaches in any sport.

Madonna has added a new UK tour date to her summer shows, with a concert in Birmingham.

Controversial sprinter Dwain Chambers will start as favourite for 60metres gold at the European Indoor Championships in Turin after being confirmed in the Aviva Great Britain team today.

Troubled soul singer Amy Winehouse returned to the stage for the opening night of her UK tour, dedicating one of her songs to her husband who was locked up earlier this week.

REUNITED pop group The Police appear to have snubbed their Irish fans yesterday when they confirmed dates and venues for the European leg of their world tour — and no gig here is planned.

Golden boy David Gillick capped off what Irish team manager Patsy McGonagle described as "a crazy day" by becoming the first man to retain the European Indoor 400 metres title since Britain's Du'aine Ladejo did so in 1996.

Ireland's Alistair Cragg will take the first step to defending his European Indoor 3000 metres title at Birmingham's National Indoor Arena this morning.

Olympic sprint champion Marion Jones will return to European track action at the Norwich Union Grand Prix in Birmingham on February 20.

ATHLETICS Ireland have announced their largest ever team for the World Indoor Championships in the National Indoor Arena, Birmingham on March 14-16.

Athletics Ireland has announced its largest ever team for the World Indoor Championships in the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham later this month.

Colin Jackson today revealed how it will be “business as usual” when he bids farewell to international athletics at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham in March.

Tickets for the new Oasis tour were today snapped up by eager fans within hours of going on sale.

Tim Henman made a flying start with a crushing opening victory in Britain'smust-win Davis Cup clash with Portgual in Birmingham.