Kieran Cunningham

Keith Andrews was tipped to be the first Premier League manager to get the sack this season, but instead his Brentford team are riding high, driven on by captain Nathan Collins and goalkeeper Caoimhín Kelleher.

The US authorities might have gone after Daniel Kinahan and his criminal gang, but he still casts a shadow on the dirty business of professional boxing a decade after the botched attempt on his life.

Today's sports stars receive media training in the art of how to engage without giving much away. With the GAA's 2026 national leagues getting under way and rugby's Six Nations being launched this week, don't expect that to change.

He hates the idea of being seen as a national treasure and doesn't like the man he looks back on in a Hot Press interview 40 years ago, but the journalist who called out Official Ireland is still driving ahead, with a final book imminent.

The former Ireland soccer manager is seemingly unimpressed with the portrayal of him in the upcoming movie Saipan, but there's still a big audience for his plain-talking views – these days via a hit podcast.

Once dismissed as a fringe crusade, the GPA’s rise has reshaped intercounty life, chipped away at amateurism and forced the Association to confront issues from image rights to under-the-table payments.

A new book on the green-and-white side of Glasgow focuses on the 1980s, but there are striking parallels with what's happening today as the long-running fight for the soul of the club continues.

The world's best directors and actors have long been drawn to pugilistic characters – and now a new film starring Sydney Sweeney tells the story of women's boxing's answer to the 'Thrilla in Manila', a fight that featured Drogheda-born world champion Deirdre Gogarty.

Kieran Cunningham stepped down as chief sports writer of the Irish Daily Star last week after nearly three decades. Access to the big names was far easier in the old days, he writes – but that didn't always make for better coverage