Malachy Clerkin

Brighter days are ahead. Ninety-five well-known people tell us what they are most eagerly anticipating in the coming months Daniel O’Donnell Sin(...)

Writing about the late Eamonn Breslin – “the man who headed the ball” at Croke Park in 1964 – recently (Irishman’s Diary, February 25th), I wondered t(...)

Politics is strangely paralysed right now – almost in lockdown. The Government rolls with the punches, delivered not so much by the Opposition but by (...)

It has only been a year. It feels longer, obviously. But that’s all it’s been. A year next weekend, in fact, since the last games were played and the (...)

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(...)

Question: What do you get when you put US World-Cup winning player Alex Morgan, Ireland captain Katie McCabe and all-time top scorer in the Women’s Su(...)

An hour after it was over, a line of cars had gathered out on the Monahan Road, just by the entrance to Páirc Uí Chaoimh. You wouldn’t say there was m(...)

Seán Moran How much will a straight knock-out championship change things? Or should we just be expecting six in a row for Dublin? No. The new format(...)

In one way, nowhere was an enforced rupture to the intercounty season less welcome than in Limerick. By the end of the league, they were like a race (...)

The Irish Times had by far the largest number of entries on the shortlist for the NewsBrands Ireland Journalism Awards 2020, which was published on Mo(...)