The Last Post Matt Cooper: Ryanair fills seats as competitors’ Covid cost-cutting fails to pay offAirline operators are cancelling hundreds of flights and disappointing thousands of travellers as airports such as Gatwick struggle to keep check-in and baggage-handling services running. But it didn’t have to be like this
The Last Post Matt Cooper: Whose fault is it that Johnson is still in power? Through sheer brass neck and absence of conscience, the British prime minister has ridden out the media storm for the required 11 days, which also reflects badly on those who can’t or won’t oust him
GAA live scores app turns down gambling sponsorsScore Beo founder Fergus Grimes says the addiction problem in the sport compelled him to refuse a partnership with six companies in the sector
Still scoring after 30 years: Why Allianz’s GAA deal continues to endureThe insurance provider is celebrating three decades of sponsorship of the National Football and Hurling Leagues, and its head of marketing Mark Brennan says the two competitions are now unrecognisable from what they were in the past
Matt Cooper: Delaney-era guff will not help FAI win trust, or a men’s team sponsorThough it puts forward some grand and worthy plans, the association’s new strategy document is vague about where the money will come from
Opinion: Why it’s time the GAA gave dangerous challenges the cold shoulderWhen legal tackles result in players getting hurt it’s time to examine the laws
Michael Duignan interview: ‘We’re all supposed to be part of the GAA, but some counties are run completely differently to others’Two-time All-Ireland winner Michael Duignan, the chairman of the Offaly county board, holds forth on changing his county’s fortunes and why the GAA needs to do more to allow smaller counties to compete in the modern era
Mayo GAA money man returns with a radical county planFinancial trader Tim O'Leary is back with a new vision to bring glory to Mayo, but before he provides fresh funding he wants the board to agree to a drastic stance against GAA HQ including a player's strike
Comment: Mayo suffering from the real curse of social media abuse Multi-billion dollar tech firms can and must do more to police their sphere
Can Mayo end 70 years of hurt?Seven decades and 10 final defeats have intensified their yearning for Sam Maguire. Tyrone await in the decider with the Connacht champions now marginal favourites having eventually vanquished Dublin . . . what could possibly go wrong?
Matt Cooper: If McManus’s cash hasn’t bought Limerick’s success, it surely helpedThe Limerick team and management deserve credit for all that they have achieved, but it is reasonable to take a look at McManus’s influence on the county’s success
James McDermott: It’s high time our GAA heroes were paid fairly for their sporting laboursWith a US Supreme Court judge bluntly raising the issue of proper pay for college athletes, Gaelic footballers and hurlers may soon be thinking along the same lines
Profile: Davy Fitzgerald, hurling manager and TV personalityThe former All-Ireland-winning Clare goalkeeper, a self-described bad loser and now Wexford hurling manager, has had enough of the slings and arrows of social media abuse relating to himself and his family’s role in Clare hurling.
GMIT grad launches GAA live scores app after 32 job rejectionsFergus Grimes has invested €20,000 to launch Score Beo, and the app has topped the Irish sports charts in the Apple Store after just a few weeks
James McDermott: The show is over for the old-style tout but the saga of over-priced tickets goes on There’s a simple way to end the outrageous exploitation of gig-goers: put our wallets back in our pockets
All-Ireland winners launch clothing line for women playersOonagh Whyte and Orlaith Duff set up Field Queens to help girls ‘feel like they are represented’ in Gaelic games
FAI asks government for part of gambling tax to help clear €70m debtFootball body says that because of large proportion of bets made on football, sport should benefit from the tax
The Last Post: The energetic Eddie O’Connor still ahead of the MainstreamUpbeat, unstoppable and full of ideas, the Airtricity founder has now built and sold another energy firm: this time Mainstream Energy, valued at around €1 billion
How long before Johnson’s Tory chums show him the door?Boris Johnson and Donald Trump came to power on a tide of toxic nationalism. Trump may be on his way out but we could have another four years of a cynical and often incompetent British leader to deal with
Vincent Boland: Acts of heroism and humanity stand out in an annus horribilisFrom athletes to protesters, and from young people to scientists, 2020 was shaped by inspiring people who gave the world reason to hope