Following the failure to qualify for the World Cup, Ireland will again enter a period of self-examination. A club in England’s third tier offers an example of what can be done with intelligent management and a smattering of Irish players.
There are questions about whether the women's game in Ireland is moving fast enough. Governance, competition structures and funding models all need work.
Leinster's climbers are starting to find their legs again after taking a different route map to the European glory that has eluded them for too long. Leo Cullen's men should have too much for Edinburgh, but can they at last conquer their Everest again?
With revenues rising and standards at an elite level, the GAA must decide how to protect amateurism without suppressing ambition.
As news breaks of the Rescue 116 crash, the Wild Geese Hurling and Camogie Club respond not as athletes, but as a community. This moving extract of a new book charts how sport forges bonds that endure beyond the field.
The World Cup draw yesterday was a demonstration of FIFA’s priorities. But regimes have recognised since its inception the influence of the competition. Jonathan Wilson talks to Dion Fanning about the power and the glory of the World Cup.
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.
Irish players are getting penalised for actions that have been coached into them – deliberate, trained behaviours that are all about pushing boundaries. The problem is that referees now have their number.
Despite developing a fierce rivalry over the past 20 years, the Irish and South African teams are reflections of one another than opposites. The question is: who's copying whom?
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