It’s hard to spot any Enda halo around Castlebar on a ceaselessly wet Friday. The town seems defeated. A taxi driver in the Taoiseach(...)

Ciaran Kilkenny: “I’d like to keep the hurling up . . . I have a great passion for it.”

Ciarán Kilkenny has left open his future as a dual player. The young Dublin player, committed to the footballers this year, re-affirmed his lov(...)

All-Ireland champions Donegal have named the same team that started last September’s final for Sunday’s eagerly awaited clash  against Tyrone.

Tyrone manager Mickey Harte has named an experienced team for Sunday’s big match in the Ulster championship. There are two championship debutan(...)

 Portmarnock beach which has lost its Blue Flag status. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

The number of beaches around the country who are to receive the coveted Blue Flag award this year has dropped by 15 per cent compared to 2012. (...)

Galway’s Gary Sweeney is put under  pressure from Mayo’s Enda Varley, Alan Freeman, Cathal Carolan and Cillian O’Connor during last Sunday’s match at Pearse Stadium, Galway. ‘Mayo forwards will dog any defender coming out with the ball.’ Photograph: Inpho

The easiest thing to say about the Mayo-Galway match last Sunday is Galway were terrible, but there’s far more to it than that. If you look too(...)

An innovative form of hip-replacement therapy, which cuts time in hospital in half, should be rolled out across t(...)

Mayo’s Andy Moran celebrates scoring his side’s fourth goal with Cillian O’Connor against Galway last weekend. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho

So much of what was positive for Mayo in the weekend’s demolition of Galway obviously reflected negatively on(...)

Galway’s Paul Conroy (left) and Ger Cafferkey of Mayo at Pearse Stadium. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho

Mayo 4-16 Galway 0-11: Mayo brushed aside Galway by a record margin in today’s widely anticipated but ultimately most disappointing GAA Connacht fo(...)

Argentine Army General Jorge Videla (left), leader of the 1976 military coup that began the seven-year “Dirty War,” and former General Reynaldo Bignone, who ruled Argentina from 1982-1983, listen to the verdict during their trial in a courthouse in Buenos Aires, in July 2012. Photograph: Enrique Marcarian/Reuters

Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla has died of natural causes while serving life sentences in prison for crimes against humanity. (...)

September 23rd, 2012: Donegal captain Michael Murphy lifts the Sam Maguire

There is a sustainable argument that this is a golden age for football. There have been five different All-Ireland champions in as many years – few(...)

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