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?
Ireland have a nondescript manager, with a team that plays non football and yet many still cling to the idea that good times might be just around the corner.
The band might be back together. But bands age. Fingers slow. Voices crack. And reunion tours, no matter how nostalgic, never quite capture the magic of the original.
Fencing Ireland has criticised the sport’s governing body for loosening restrictions on Russian athletes with military links. All the while, questions swirl over a sanctioned oligarch’s grip on the sport.
The story of Gjert Ingebrigtsen — and many parents like him — reveals how children’s sport is increasingly shaped by adult ambition and professional pressure.
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