Deal with NBPA will see company provide player bio analytics

The Galway-headquartered start-up is to provide the basketball side with bio-analytical services

Graeme McDowell among the backers of Galway-based sports tech company Orreco

Companies will integrate data to help clients optimise performance and recovery

I would have been incredulous if I’d seen my future as a teenager in Belfast

Irish start-ups providing solutions that keep professionals match fit and focused on their game

Orreco also hires the man who secured Nike contracts for LeBron James and Kobe Bryant

Data analysis company helps elite athletes optimise their performance

Pundit will not be used at World Championships after saying victims weren’t ‘proper men’

52-year-old antique restorer pleaded guilty over disrupting flight to Shannon

Biomarker analytics firm wants to extend elite athlete solutions to everyone

England lacked arrogance during dismal World Cup campaign - now they have it back

The bed of embers in front of me is hotter than 500 degrees. If this madness wasn’t to raise money for the rare, painful skin condition EB, I’d probably run away

Steve Hansen: ‘You can’t take it out of the game but you’ve got to make it a fair contest’

Elite sports firm will develop ‘Coach Watson’ app to help teams and players avoid injury

It’s debs season, and the search is on for showstopper dresses. It’s an expensive business, with some spending up to €1.000 on ‘the one’, and that’s just the start of it. Debutantes, mothers, style advisors and dress shop owners reveal what’s involved in the preparations

A return to distrust and ill-feeling of past is something no one wants to see

Brian Moore (25) is fifth police officer killed in surge of anti-law enforcement sentiment

Plainclothes police officer shot in the head while pursuing suspect in his unmarked car

England came up just short after thrilling denouement but look ahead to World Cup

The UK press have lauded Ireland and dismissed England’s World Cup chances

`Use it or lose it'

Clash between Rudi Völler and Frank Rijkaard in World Cup second round game concludes with an unjust sending off of the German and spit by the Dutch defender

Figures in show business and sport express shock and grief on Twitter

Nicola White’s new novel ‘In the Rosary Garden’ was inspired by the Kerry Babies tribunal and the Ann Lovett case. We recommend some other real-life fiction from Ireland and abroad

David Coleman - Born: April 26th, 1926; Died: December 21st, 2013

Mary Beckett: January 28th, 1926-November 10th, 2013

Torn pec muscle likely to rule Tigers back out of opening Heineken Cup match against Ulster

Peace in the North is an uneasy stasis, not the real thing

Born: October 10th, 1923. Died: April 1st, 2013.