Earlier this week, the Liam Whelan bridge was defaced. Today, the bridge is covered in soccer jerseys in a touching tribute to the deceased athlete.

Part of the wine collection of former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson is to be sold at auction.

Yesterday’s announcement by the Irish Sports Council that it will spend €7.4m to support major field sports’ governing bodies — the FAI, GAA, and IRFU — is very welcome but it would be even more welcome had more money been available.

Marc Wilson breezes into the media room at Stoke City’s plush Clayton Wood training ground sporting an Easy Rider T-shirt and feeling every bit the man with a lot of road to travel and time to do it.

Manchester City and Paris St Germain will learn this week whether they are deemed to be in serious breach of UEFA’s financial fair play rules.

No one who went to a football match in England on Saturday, April 15, 1989 is likely to forget what happened that day.

Civic-minded football fans have undone the work of vandals at a bridge dedicated to an Irish footballer killed in the 1958 Munich air disaster.

Turkish Airlines could be poised to succeed RaboDirect as sponsors of the Pro12 tournament.

They say the new black card system in football has shaved away a good deal of the cynicism. I decided to have a look yesterday at the game I was covering, Derry-Mayo in Croke Park, to see if the evidence bore out the presumption.

She rose to fame as Posh Spice, then became one of the most famous footballer’s wives. Now a self-made fashion icon, Victoria Beckham reaches another milestone this week — she turns 40.

“It’s only the league quarter-finals so it doesn’t really matter.” — Discuss in 1,000 words, using appropriate quotation and sarcasm to support your argument

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As the faithful and the unfaithful look to the skies above Old Trafford today, it’s sobering to think that Martin O’Neill could have been ‘The Chosen One’, the man to manage Manchester United when Alex Ferguson retired.

While the bulk of attention has been on the fight for the Premier League title and qualification for Europe next season, we can’t overlook what is shaping up to be the most exciting relegation battle in a long time, with every team in the bottom half still vulnerable and their respective boardrooms dreading the financial implications of playing in the Championship next season.

The sensation was strange at first. Unfamiliar.

Ciprian Grozavu strangled a happy-go-lucky Englishman in a flat in Bandon using a homemade ligature while Catherine O’Connor stabbed him repeatedly in the face with two jagged ends of a broken Manchester United mug.

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There are so many damning statistics regarding David Moyes’ tenure at Manchester United that it is difficult to know where to start.