Willie Ryan’s appetite for rugby big enough to weather English club game’s bleak finances
‘It’s good fun and we play good rugby – but it’s not well paid and it’s getting worse,’ says Ryan
Ulster head coach Richie Murphy ready to deploy young guns to fire up the new season
With squad light on frontline experience, Murphy is confident Jake Flannery, James Humphreys, Jack Murphy and new outhalf Aidan Morgan can step up to the plate
Hugh Hogan relishing his role as one of Ireland’s revamped coaching team
Women's rugby: Game against Australia in Belfast to further Scott Bernard’s squad’s preparation for the WXV1 tournament in Vancouver where Ireland face New Zealand, Canada and the USA
Paralympics Day 10: Irish in action as Richael Timothy takes on road race
Britney Arendse will take part in powerlifting; Mary Fitzgerald in Shot Put final
Paralympics Day 9: Irish in action and best of the rest as Katie-George Dunlevy chases gold again
Paralympics Day 9: Katie-George Dunlevy with her pilot Linda Kelly will feature in the 99-kilometre Women’s B road race as will Josephine Healion and Eva McCrystal
Paralympics: Goncin busily giving back to the land of his birth
Team Canada wheelchair basketball player Nikola Goncin designs prosthetics for disabled children in his native Bosnia
Paralympics Day 8: Irish in action and best of the rest as Róisín Ní Riain chases more medal glory
Limerick swimmer will compete in her last event of the Paris Games on Thursday
Bed found for 8ft 1 Iranian Paralympian forced to sleep on floor in Paris
Paralympics 2024: Ecuador accused of allowing non-disabled athletes to compete at Games
Cliodhna Moloney praises positive changes in Ireland women’s team under Bemand after returning from exile
Galway native (31) is glad to be back and confident Ireland can close the gap at international level under new regime
TV View: Old football rivalries are played out – and the old cliches are wheeled out too
Yet another ‘screamer’ as Celtic get the better of Rangers, and more ‘double Dutch’ as Liverpool and Manchester United managers face off
Paralympics Day 2 as it happened: Ireland’s Róisín Ní Riain wins silver in 100m backstroke final
Ellen Keane narrowly missed out on bronze in the SB8 100m breaststroke final
Olympics Day 6: Boxers Jack Marley and Daina Moorehouse fail to progress in Paris
Medal race for sailors Robert Dickson and Seán Waddilove abandoned for today while Jack Marley boxes for medal later
Olympics, Day 5 live updates: Kellie Harrington books place in semi-final, guaranteed at least bronze after victory over Valdes
Follow all of the action as Irish boxer takes on Columbia’s Angie Valdes in Paris
Olympics, Day 4 as it happened: Daniel Wiffen wins gold medal with stunning Olympic record
Daniel Wiffen headlines day four with a gold medal chance in the 800m freestyle
Olympics, Day 3 as it happened: Mona McSharry wins bronze medal in 100m breaststroke final
Dubliner Ellen Walshe finishes eighth the 400IM final while Kellie Harrington wins her first fight