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Full coverage: Sports

2025 in 25 podcasts: An audio take on an extraordinary year

Over the past year, we have published four podcast series, a two-part financial investigation and carried a range of one-off podcasts with authors, politicians, musicians, business leaders, and entrepreneurs.

Ian Kehoe
29th Dec, 2025 - 18 min read

Looking back at 2025: 25 sports features that captured the year

From conversations with the key decision-makers in sport to investigative looks at how major sporting bodies are funded and run, The Currency covers sport with a perspective all our own.

Ian Kehoe
27th Dec, 2025 - 14 min read

Sports journalism in Ireland is unrecognisable from when I started out, but spare me the golden-era nostalgia

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

Kieran Cunningham
1st Nov, 2025 - 8 min read

Life after Line Up: David McHugh on building – and selling – a sports marketing firm

David McHugh represents some of Ireland’s top athletes and works with blue-chip corporates on sports deals. He talks about his life in sport, future trends and why he sold his agency to global giant Wasserman.

Ian Kehoe
22nd Oct, 2025 - 7 min read

Big-name sports stars backed StatSports. Now Sony is acquiring the Northern Irish firm

Harry Kane is among several professional footballers that invested in tech company StatSports, which has now sold a majority stake to Sony.

Jonathan Keane
8th Oct, 2025 - 3 min read

Joe Haslam: Why Real Madrid, too, is more than just a club

While “més que un club” is the tagline of FC Barcelona, it arguably applies even more strongly to Real Madrid. Atlético de Madrid fans will not like my saying it, but in the era of Florentino Pérez, there is nothing more Madrid than Real Madrid.

Joe Haslam
27th Sep, 2025 - 16 min read

Dion Fanning: Premier League boomtime spending ignores the warning signs

English clubs have spent more than €2 billion this summer and they haven’t finished yet. But this mania might be hiding some worrying trends.

Dion Fanning
16th Aug, 2025 - 6 min read

Paul Flynn: How Kerry triggered the master-plan that left manic Donegal floundering

Last Sunday's Kerry All-Ireland victory was was a 15-man demonstration of everything that is possible in modern Gaelic football.

Paul Flynn
2nd Aug, 2025 - 5 min read

Brett Igoe: When 91 people go to Australia (and play a bit of rugby)

Behind the British & Irish Lions’ tour of Australia lies a high-performance machine of staff, science, strategy, and sleepless nights. The Currency’s coverage of the British & Irish Lions is supported by Bespoke Estate Agents.

Brett Igoe
1st Aug, 2025 - 6 min read

Truce in Liffey Swim battle as sea swimming group settles case against Swim Ireland

Years-long tensions came to a head when Leinster Open Sea sought a High Court injunction earlier this month to stop Swim Ireland from running a separate race. At midnight, the parties informed the court they’d settled.

Alice Chambers
22nd Jul, 2025 - 2 min read
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