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

It’s a different kind of adrenaline buzz to winning gold medals, but David Gillick has grown into his role as an RTÉ broadcaster and is now heading to the Tokyo Olympics

Getting ready for the Olympics is about more than just training, it is a complete way of life where everything is about optimising performance and focusing on the event. Niamh Donnelly talks to seven athletes whose hard work and dedication has led them to this year’s Tokyo Olympics

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 Irish tennis star talks about the challenging road to competing with the elite, his Wimbledon appearance in 2011, and his early retirement the following year

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

Locker, a mobile platform designed to bring trusted sports content to fans, has plans for a pro edition designed to work with providers that use paywalls

The Ireland and Munster scrum-half has had the Lions captaincy handed to him at short notice, but those who know him best have no doubts about his ability to rise to the occasion

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’

With the Euros just started and Wimbledon, the Open, the Olympics, the Lions and GAA coming down the tracks, the pandemic will have to fight for column inches

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

Journalist Jonathan O’Brien goes back to the humble beginnings of the European Championship in an impeccably researched and lovingly written account of one of our most popular football tournaments

Having advocated on the court for Black Lives Matter with her iconic masks, the Japanese tennis star is now rewriting the rules for athletes’ mental health

Fergus 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

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

The responses of Liverpool’s manager and one of its legends to the appalling assault on Irish fan Seán Cox show they understand the meaning of a club’s heritage. All that might have been lost had the European Super League succeeded

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