Return of the Mac shouldn’t keep Delaney in his postAfter 14 long years in charge, the FAI chief executive still presides over dysfunction and disconnect
Irish football’s great joyless journey to nowhereReports of Roy Keane’s rows with players and recent dismal match performances have laid the unedifying spectacle that is football in Ireland all too bare
Getting your house in order, GAA styleThe Gaelic Athletic Association continues to ignore the major financial advantage Dublin has when it comes to its rivals
Life after Rio: Banned boxer Michael O'ReillyMichael O’Reilly was an Olympic gold medal contender until he tested positive for a steroid and was sent home from Rio in disgrace. A four-year ban and two high-profile brushes with the law followed
When a win means there’s not much worth cheeringIf Dublin win four-in-a-row today, they will do so because the dice are loaded financially in their favour
Gone to the dogsA decade ago, Thomas Chamney ran for Ireland at the Beijing Olympics and got no thanks for it. Today, running a small food business in Sweden, he can look back at the madness of his athletics days and laugh
New Irish giving athletics a compelling new lease of lifeA racially mixed Irish team claimed several medals at the World Under-20 Championships in Tampere last week, eliciting an avalanche of richly deserved praise – but also a waft of bigotry from the usual suspects
World Cup is a win for Putin, but France deserve the crownLeaving aside the geopolitics of it, this World Cup has been, as ever, a faintly outrageous carnival of sportsmanship
Tour de farceFloyd Landis feels he was thrown to the wolves when he was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France after testing positive for testosterone. And he believes cycling has a long way to go to restore its reputation
Brazil’s yellow shirt has been hijacked by the far rightA recent poll showed that 41 per cent of Brazilians now have no interest in their World Cup team, even more felt winning would not improve national self-esteem
Man of the centuryKevin O’Brien last week made history by scoring 118 runs on Ireland’s test cricket debut against Pakistan, a gruelling five-day battle that showcased the national team’s fighting spirit
The gentle giantPat Burke has played with the greats of US pro basketball, but even more impressive than his career is what he has gleaned from his experience
Gambling: ‘I stole, begged, borrowed... I should not be alive’One recovering addict shares his story of hope in the face of a national epidemic, but an apathetic government and avaricious bookmakers are hardly helping the situation
Fergal Carruth is bloodied but unbowedIABA chief executive Carruth discusses Billy Walsh, Michael O’Reilly and whether Irish boxing can find its way back to being ‘a new Cuba’
The highs have been high, but the lows are really devastatingBohemians sacked him. So did Dunfermline and Shamrock Rovers. Then the outspoken Stephen Kenny got his hands on Dundalk, and the rest is Irish footballing history
Moving away from the memory of RioAhead of the Winter Games, Olympic Council of Ireland chief Sarah Keane reveals how she’ll bring the organisation out from under the shadow of Rio