Ciara Mageean
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‘It’s what he lived for’: Athletes pay tribute to inspirational coach Jerry Kiernan
- Other Sports
- January 23, 2021, 06:00
“You look like absolute sh**e.” There are lots of different ways for a coach to tell their athlete they might be a little off-colour today, and for J(...)

Irish Olympic marathon runner Jerry Kiernan dies aged 67
- Other Sports
- January 21, 2021, 14:42
Irish athletics and the wider sporting community has been deeply saddened by the death of Jerry Kiernan, the 1984 Olympian and two-time winner of the (...)

Sporting predictions for 2021: We ask the experts . . .
- Sport
- January 9, 2021, 07:00
Lee Keegan (Mayo footballer) Who is Ireland’s best gold medal prospect at the Olympics in Tokyo? How many medals in total will Ireland claim? Golf is(...)

The one annual sporting awards where the objective meets the subjective
- Other Sports
- December 19, 2020, 07:00
Here we go again. Because nowhere does the objective meet the subjective with greater fear or envy of gender bias than at your choice of annual sporti(...)

‘This year has just been a rollercoaster for absolutely everybody’
- Sport
- December 18, 2020, 17:00
“This year has just been a rollercoaster for absolutely everybody, and it’s no different for us athletes,” said Ciara Mageean, speaking to us at Dubli(...)

Katie Taylor is The Irish Times/Sport Ireland Sportswoman of the Year for 2020
- Sport
- December 18, 2020
Virtually unprecedented, some performances defying reality, and in the end providing an undisputed winner, maybe the first and lasting live impression(...)

Meet the nominees for The Irish Times/Sport Ireland Sportswoman of the Year 2020
- Other Sports
- December 17, 2020, 06:00
So there we were, in the Shelbourne hotel in December 2019, listening to our monthly award winners talk about how much they were looking forward to 20(...)

Sonia O’Sullivan: Celebrating athletes who ensured 2020 wasn’t a lost year
- Other Sports
- December 10, 2020, 06:00
Like many things this year the World Athletics annual awards gala went virtual last weekend, held to highlight the best performances and announce the (...)

Sanita Puspure named Irish Times/Sport Ireland Sportswoman for October
- Other Sports
- November 12, 2020, 01:00
It was last December, when she was crowned our Sportswoman of the Year for 2019, that Sanita Puspure spoke about how much she was looking forward to 2(...)

Tokyo dreaming: Ireland’s Olympics team slowly taking shape
- Other Sports
- October 19, 2020, 06:00
With the golfers to be added, the boxing team to resume their qualification process, judo and badminton to ratify names, swimmers to swim and the rugb(...)