As Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy stake their place in the history books, it’s easy to forget the pain for those who don’t get to stand on the podium

As the Ireland Hockey team get their Olympic campaign started, midfield star Chloe Watkins reflects on what it means for their families and supporters watching at home, what it has taken to get there and how the team culture has put them in a position to compete with the best in the world

Emigrants competing for their new countries, Irish sporting heroes of old having to represent Britain, the complexities of being Northern Irish; the Olympics have always been political despite the ban on protests such as taking the knee

Hosting the Games is an expensive business and the cities which have reaped benefits from doing so are the exception rather than the rule

A string of England managers have been ridiculed into oblivion by British tabloids, but Gareth Southgate has had good fortune on his side, making use of a handy draw to bring his team to tonight’s Euro 2020 final

The Ireland men’s team take on old rivals South Africa tomorrow in front of a crowd of up to 560 in Malahide, Co Dublin

Gareth Southgate’s innate conservatism could undo England, who will need their most effective game-changers on the pitch at the same time against Italy

With three 14-minute games a day, Anthony Eddy, director of 7s Rugby with the IRFU, says the intense on-pitch action is ‘a marathon of sprints’

After spectacularly blowing their quest to win ten Scottish league titles in a row, managerless Celtic stand at a crossroads. But the club’s biggest shareholder, billionaire financier Dermot Desmond, is brooking no criticism in the wake of their worst season in decades

Ice hockey association has accused DKIT of stalling as three years of negotiations over country’s only purpose-built ice dome have failed to yield agreement

After games were cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic, the organisers of the American football event confirmed that Northwestern University will play Nebraska here next year

Greyhound Racing Ireland chief tells colleagues report is needed after ‘loose talk about demise of industry’

Inspired by ancient Irish monks and the late Tim Severin’s recreation of the Brendan Voyage, the adventurer will brave turbulent seas and unpredictable weather for his next challenge

In the final part of our look at the financial issues affecting the now collapsed Super League, we break down why international football remains a force the rich clubs cannot ignore

Part four of our look at the financial issues that surround the Super League drama of the last few days examines how debt was the core influence to the hasty moves by Europe’s richest clubs

The key to maximising football’s financial value is to make more money off each game, and this cannot happen while wealthy clubs leave their former rivals behind

Meaningless games between Super League also-rans will be a turn-off for viewers – and there are many more reasons why the project could be doomed before it even begins

The clubs behind the controversial project face more than a moral backlash — competing commercial interests and the reality of market needs make this more of an uphill battle for those involved than it initially appears

Investigating the failure of the Irish football team on the international stage starts at the fault lines of Ireland’s sporting structures. But how did things get so bleak? And how can we achieve redemption?

Myriad factors have caused Ireland’s decline and it will take some years of good decisions to lead us to a better place