There was a time they used to win and love playing there but that love don't live there anymore. Today's piece on Clare and the Pairc irishexaminer.com/sport-columnis…

‘You haven’t got it. You’re soft.’ ‘They were rugby tackling and getting away with it.’ ‘Ah Jaysus Mickey, we’re in a pub!’ Snapchats from Armagh-Donegal, covering knees in and knees ups, and how they each helped mould the other’s greatest team. irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid…

The scoretaking here in this Ulster final by both sides is off the charts, reminiscent of first half of 2019 Kerry-Dublin AI final replay.

Stewarding at Springsteen gig a joke, non-existent. Queue here now on Clonliffe as long as the road itself and barely moving.

This concert will have to be put back at least half an hour. Stewarding a disaster

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Final shout if I may for this Sunday Independent piece about that stunning #rteinvestigates documentary last week on the dark side of the Irish horse breeding industry.

We lost two giants today. Hadn't the fortune to chat to MOM on the record but had the privilege three years ago of Tommie Gorman letting the tape roll to capture his passion for sport. A remarkable career, life, man. irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/a…

A bit of reading for the train and car up. First, Wayne Sherlock. ‘In 2006 I was playing the best hurling of my life. But I didn’t approach anyone and ask why wasn’t I playing. That’s why I say to players: Come to me if you have an issue with anything.’ irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid…

Feakle gave Clare its first two All Stars in Durack and Loughnane. Now it's providing with another top 1-2 punch in Quilligan and Hogan. 'After Loughnane left, lads decided, "Feck you, we’re going to play U21A."' irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid…

In 2022 and 2023 Ryan Taylor was the most consistent scoring midfielder in the country, scoring in 14 of Clare’s 15 championship games. Then he got injured. Now he’s back. Here’s how he did that. irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid…

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Saw LeBron last night in the 02. He was awesome. Yet nothing in sport can top the AI final and Tony Kelly on Sunday, that you were able to bump into him last Fri and that he's bringing LMacCarthy to the local across the road on the Tues. Today's column irishexaminer.com/sport-columnis…

If you were to pinpoint one factor why Ireland at this and recent Olympics have been winning medals when previously we wouldn't, it's the Institute of Irish Sport. Today's column on how less Hickey and more Harbison has transformed Irish Olympic sport irishexaminer.com/sport-columnis…

In 2023 Timmy McCarthy left a hospital bed to be inducted into the Basketball Ireland Hall of Fame. He was so frail, friends feared they might not see him again. But after his latest rebound from cancer, the whole country has got to treasure him once more irishexaminer.com/sport/otherspo…

It’s hard to fathom how it is exactly 10 years since Professor Pat Duffy passed away - 10.08.14 Interesting that his anniversary falls during the #Paris2024 #Paris2024Olympics when we can see the legacy of his pioneering work for Irish sport and global sport. Our athletes have

In Saturday’s Irish Examiner Sport, a big Kieran Shannon sit down with Kieran Donaghy on a tumultuous few years with Armagh_GAA. Eating and thinking in it.

'I was struck by the way they challenged each other. Grugan, Forker, calling people out. "You’re not doing it in the gym. I’m looking at you and you’re going through the motions."' A big sitdown with Kieran Donaghy on how he and Sam ended up in Armagh irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid…

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Something that needed to be picked up on that wasn't being picked up on. And nobody better to pick up on it than Paul Kimmage. Paralympic sport is meant to inspire, not marginalise, athletes. The most important sports piece you'll read today. independent.ie/sport/paralymp…