Where would the GAA be without its traditions? That’s not entirely a rhetorical question but any satisfactory answer would be fairly complicated. Trad(...)

Brumbies 14 Lions 12: Warren Gatland gambled on sacrificing the Lions’ unbeaten record by picking his non-test team and a makeshift backline four day(...)

Arrangements for round one of the All-Ireland football qualifiers include the first championship fixture scheduled for a Friday night, as the meeting (...)

Cavan 0-13 Fermanagh 0-11: Clue by cryptic clue, Cavan are finding their way out of the forest. If Armagh’s doomed tactical wheezing had given their p(...)

Tyrone have been dealt a blow ahead of the opening round of the All Ireland qualifiers with the news that defender PJ Quinn has announced that he is o(...)

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Of all the Ulster Championship games to be plonking down near G8 ground zero, you’d have been hard pushed to come up with a less appetising one than t(...)

Ireland 8 South Africa 19: Emerging Ireland fell short in their second match of the IRB Tbilisi Cup as Carl Bezuidenhout kicked the South Africa Presi(...)

The first is that people who should know better don’t understand – or more likely choose not to understand, bank balance sheets. The second and more i(...)

All good things come to an end and so it with our recent spell of glorious summer weather. This week normal service will resume as the sunshine and wa(...)