Shaun Patton and Ethan Rafferty make mockery of goalkeeper obituary writers, with both men key to Ulster final hopesWhen all is said and done between Armagh and Donegal, Anglo-Celt Cup could be won on kick-outsSat May 10 2025 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: Tailteann Cup has retained goodwill, but it might also be confirming need for a third-tier competitionSomething is not right when so many teams have no hope of making waves in football’s two championshipsSat May 10 2025 - 06:00
Patrick O’Donovan’s overstatements damage credibility of the International Sports Diplomacy FrameworkDocument is filled with ideas and goals that are impossible to disagree with but hard to measureWed May 07 2025 - 16:41
Dublin camogie breaks ranks and allows games go ahead even if players refuse to wear skorts Several teams lined out in shorts during Tuesday night’s round of senior league gamesWed May 07 2025 - 12:13
GAA live updates: Galway beat Mayo in classic Connacht final as Kerry ease to Munster title Four goals in the first half leave Kerry a simple task in putting away Clare for their 86th provincial titleSun May 04 2025 - 18:01
Malachy Clerkin: Lamine Yamal is incredible and it would be great if we could just leave him aloneThis Barcelona prodigy has already played an abnormal number of games for his age, so it would be unsurprising if he burns outSat May 03 2025 - 06:00
Mayo’s Aidan O’Shea still divides opinion like nobody else in the GAAAidan O’Shea is going for his ninth Connacht medal this weekendSat May 03 2025 - 06:00
After 5,418 days Dublin have finally lost in Leinster and Jim Gavin’s new rules made it possibleHundreds of careers of quality intercounty players in the province came and went without the hope of a day like thisMon Apr 28 2025 - 14:56
Efficient Donegal deservedly take the spoils over willing Monaghan Home side missed seven two-pointers in Clones, which was more to blame than late hooter chaosSun Apr 20 2025 - 18:07
Derry’s Anton Tohill on mental health and sport: ‘The biggest wake up call for me was Red Óg’Derry midfielder was close to Red Óg Murphy in Australia and now gives GPA mental health workshops to GAA clubsSun Apr 20 2025 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: The Ulster Championship is awkward, parochial and still deeply essentialGetting rid of the provincial championships makes sense, except everybody in the north is clawing and scratching to win the Anglo-Celt CupSat Apr 19 2025 - 06:00
Rory McIlroy’s Masters win isn’t about golf, really at all. It is about lifeRory McIlroy's career Grand Slam ends the weirdest glitch in golfMon Apr 14 2025 - 10:19
Rory McIlroy winning the 2025 Masters as it happened: Irish golfer completes the career Grand Slam in playoffMcIlroy played a wonderful shot to the first playoff hole and holed his three-footer to make historyMon Apr 14 2025 - 00:26
Malachy Clerkin: It’s the glorious mystery of sport that keeps us coming back for more Why do we do this to ourselves? Why do we kid ourselves so often and so fecklessly?Fri Apr 11 2025 - 19:23
The Masters 2025 live updates: Rory McIlroy’s challenge falls away as Justin Rose leads Strong Irish challenge at Augusta as McIlroy and Lowry hold their own on a stacked leaderboardFri Apr 11 2025 - 00:03
Patrick McBrearty and Dáire Ó Baoill star as Donegal show Derry the doorJim McGuinness’s side overcome cagey opening to comfortably take care of the visitors in Ulster Championship openerSun Apr 06 2025 - 18:05
‘There’s no control in games anymore’: Darragh Ó Sé, Dean Rock and Conor McManus chat about the 2025 All-IrelandDonegal’s kickers, Kerry’s midfield, the unreasonable demands of a condensed season - our football columnists run the rule over the summer aheadSun Apr 06 2025 - 06:01
For once hoping the championship will produce good football doesn’t make you a prize idiotThe FRC’s rules changes have not just changed the game they’ve made it one of the most open championships in yearsFri Apr 04 2025 - 20:10
Rory McIlroy at The Masters: Brace for the next chapter in one of Ireland’s greatest sporting sagasFrom his first Masters appearance in 2009, McIlroy has always been the talk of the place, whether in contention or bombing outSat Mar 29 2025 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: Paul O’Connell deserves better than the hospital pass thrown to him by the LionsIreland have been generous in waving their coaching staff off to Australia, leaving the interim boss with a critical summer assignmentFri Mar 28 2025 - 16:01
The Good, The Bad and The Two-Pointers: A county-by-county guide to who got what from the National Football LeaguePromotions, relegations, league finals made (and avoided) – there was something for everyone in the 2025 leagueMon Mar 24 2025 - 15:45
National Football League as it happened: Mayo and Kerry reach the final, Tyrone and Derry relegatedMonaghan and Roscommon secure their return to Division One, as Offaly and Kildare join Division Two Sun Mar 23 2025 - 18:46
Malachy Clerkin: Madcap Sunday finish is just another indignity heaped upon the 2025 national leaguesIt would have made sense to push the end of the hurling league back to next week and let the fooball breathe but instead it’s a blitz finishSat Mar 22 2025 - 06:00
Conor McManus: ‘The pain was so bad I knew I wouldn’t be able to make it back to the house’One of the modern greats of Gaelic football reflects on his career with Monaghan ahead of starting a new column for The Irish Times in Championship 2025Sat Mar 22 2025 - 06:00
Ireland player ratings: Ryan Manning and Troy Parrott stand out in away win over Bulgaria Heimir Hallgrímsson’s selections work out well, with Finn Azaz providing an X-factor in first-leg victoryThu Mar 20 2025 - 22:23
Efficient Dublin take the spoils as Galway endure a wasteful night’s shootingPádraic Joyce’s side matched the home team in most areas of the pitch except the one that matters mostSun Mar 16 2025 - 09:25
Donald McRae: ‘Boxing makes me feel so f**king alive. I wanted that back because I didn’t want to wallow in grief’The South African sports writer explains why he wrote what he says will be his final boxing bookSun Mar 16 2025 - 07:42
Malachy Clerkin: Relax! This is not the end of an era for either Liverpool or the Ireland rugby teamOn the back of defeats to French teams last week, there was a mad dash to declare the end of two teams that are actually fineSat Mar 15 2025 - 06:00
Cheltenham 2025 day two: Marine Nationale wins the Champion Chase – As it happenedCheltenham 2025 day two: Follow all the updates from day two of the racing festival which has seen an emotional win for the former mount of the late Michael O’SullivanWed Mar 12 2025 - 17:33
Cheltenham Day One: Constitution Hill and State Man both fall to hand Golden Ace the Champion Hurdle Huge shock in the feature race of the day as Jeremy Scott’s 25/1 winner outlasts them allTue Mar 11 2025 - 17:46
Louis Bielle-Biarrey makes up for loss of Antoine Dupont with some sorcery of his ownThe leggy French winger conjures up two tries to make light of the absence of his injured captainSun Mar 09 2025 - 06:00
Fabien Galthié: ‘We feel bad for Dupont. In terms of the action, in my opinion it was reprehensible’ France have cited Tadhg Beirne and Andrew Porter for the incident that injured the French captainSat Mar 08 2025 - 18:30
Malachy Clerkin: Cheltenham’s thrill is gone as the best stories are replaced by the betting, the betting, the betting Why would you care how many winners Willie Mullins or JP McManus add to their already huge total this week?Sat Mar 08 2025 - 06:00
Young guns like Darragh McCarthy give Tipperary the start they needGreen shoots as Liam Cahill hands out 10 debuts in campaign to date as Tipperary lead hurling’s top flightSat Mar 08 2025 - 06:00
Jim McGuinness: ‘We will not be thinking about the league final. We will be thinking about what’s best for us'As the leagues come to the decisive weeks, teams start to consider whether it’s worth their while trying to win silverwareSun Mar 02 2025 - 19:00
Grandstand finish by Donegal saves tired display and leaves Derry in major relegation trouble Michael Murphy’s second-half performance provides spark for Jim McGuinness’s sideSun Mar 02 2025 - 17:42
Niall Ó Ceallacháin leaving no stone unturned in search for new era of Dublin hurlersDivision 1B the perfect playground to allow fresh talent to cut their teethSun Mar 02 2025 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: Manchester United’s woes will turn the spotlight on Ruben Amorim before longFive wins in 16 league games is the worst start of any post-Fergie United manager - sympathy for him isn’t limitlessFri Feb 28 2025 - 19:00
Derry’s kick-out was demolished but pretending it was about who wanted it more won’t do them any goodArmagh’s kick-out variation against Mayo showed it doesn’t need to be such a lotteryMon Feb 24 2025 - 14:18
Seán Bugler and Brian Howard exceptional as Dublin swat Derry aside with 11-point winDessie Farrell’s new side taking shape but league champions had very little to offer in one-sided contestSat Feb 22 2025 - 21:59
Dermot McCabe has a tricky task managing Westmeath and working for the Cavan county boardCavan’s best player for the past 50 years takes on his former county and current employers in a relegation four-pointerSat Feb 22 2025 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: Irish rugby should lean into the arrogance angle, at least while it still canUnvarnished truth is that any crowing we’re doing is mostly in jest – we presume this moment of success will pass before longFri Feb 21 2025 - 17:00
Stephen Bradley: ‘After I got stabbed, I messed around for a year. I was angry’Shamrock Rovers manager talks about underachieving in his playing career, fixing broken people, and his 10-year-old son Josh’s battle with leukemiaSat Feb 15 2025 - 06:00
Malachy Clerkin: Most of the new football rules work well enough without allowing goalkeepers the run of the placeGerrymandering the pitch so that the attacking team have an automatic overload is unfair and unnecessaryFri Feb 14 2025 - 19:00
Malachy Clerkin: In this Trump reality there’s a bad moon rising - it’s already clear sport won’t be a havenThe days when we could turn to sport to get away from the serious news are going to be few and far betweenSat Feb 08 2025 - 06:00
Mason Melia’s Spurs move could change Irish transfers forever but there is still a long road aheadFor the gifted St Pat’s teenager on his way to the Premier League, everything has changed and nothing has changedFri Feb 07 2025 - 10:00
Five things we learned from the GAA weekend: Player and referee fitness is tested by new rulesGalway show ingenuity; a new Limerick; goalkeeper overlaps are concern; Carlow hurling’s great dayMon Feb 03 2025 - 11:24
Watching England scramble for positives after losing to Ireland will never not be enjoyableFor generations, Irish teams talked up losing displays - the shoe being on the other foot still feels weird but will never feel oldSun Feb 02 2025 - 06:00
Once Ireland cut out the sloppy mistakes, England could not live with themSecond-half display bodes well for the rest of Six Nations but messiness of opening period served warningSat Feb 01 2025 - 19:32
A year on from having a stroke, Feargal Logan’s life has changed but he counts himself very luckyHaving lost his midfield partner Jody Gormley to cancer in 2024, the former Tyrone co-manager knows all too well the fragility of life and healthSat Feb 01 2025 - 06:00
