Tee times for the 2018 Masters have been released with Rory McIlroy paired alongside Jon Rahm and Adam Scott. The trio will tee off from 6:38pm Irish time on Thursday while four-time winner Tiger Woods will tee off at 3:42pm alongside Australia’s Marc Leishman and England’s Tommy Fleetwood. Speaking ahead of Thursday’s first round at Augusta, […]

8 years ago

Manchester United will offer £15 tickets for 18 to 25-year-old fans next season as the club look to improve their atmosphere at Old Trafford. Next season will mark the seventh consecutive campaign where United will freeze matchday ticket prices with the club’s group managing director Richard Arnold claiming that the introduction of £15 tickets for […]

8 years ago

The life of a substitute is a life that is largely lived in the unknown. A substitute is constantly waiting, always watching, never quite knowing whether they’ll be needed but never allowed to act like they won’t. Leinster utility Joey Carbery has experienced both ends of the substitute spectrum with Leinster and Ireland over the […]

8 years ago

25 minutes. 25 minutes was all Simon Zebo lasted in what could be his final European game for Munster at Thomond Park for some time. The Munster full-back could return with Racing in the near future, or for Munster at some stage further down the line, but for now, this was his European goodbye. Zebo […]

8 years ago

Conor Murray produced a moment of genius to open the scoring for Munster in their Champions Cup quarter-final against Toulon at Thomond Park. With Munster trailing 6-0, and Toulon trying to work their way off their own line, hooker Guilhem Guirado attempted to pick the ball up at the base of the ruck before committing […]

8 years ago

Dublin manager Jim Gavin has made four changes to the Dublin side that lost to Monaghan in the final round of the National Football League last weekend. The one-point defeat marked Dublin’s first loss to Monaghan in 12 years, and just Dublin’s second defeat in the last three years, as Fintan Kelly struck a late […]

8 years ago

Former Munster and Ireland captain Paul O’Connell has said that he’s concerned about the injured duo of Chris Farrell and Keith Earls ahead of Munster’s Champions Cup quarter-final with Toulon at Thomond Park this afternoon. Earls and Farrell have both been ruled out of the match with knee injuries with Sammy Arnold set to partner […]

8 years ago

Referee Marc Goddard made an unfortunate mistake in Vladimir Seliversto’s knockout win against Alexander Dankov on Friday night after failing to notice that Dankov had been knocked out. In the final minute of the first round at Fight Nights Global 85, Seliversto caught Dankov with a head kick followed by a right hook that sent the Russian to the canvas […]

8 years ago

Swiss international Xherdan Shaqiri has lamented the lack of quality around him at Stoke City as the Potters look to avoid Premier League relegation. Paul Lambert’s side currently sit in 19th position on the league table with just six wins from 31 games this season. Shaqiri has scored seven goals in the league campaign but […]

8 years ago

QPR manager Ian Holloway has said that referees should be given the power to determine if players are faking injuries after the Hoops earned a late penalty in their 1-0 defeat to Reading on Friday. QPR were awarded a penalty in the 93rd minute when Dave Edwards fouled Pawel Wsolek to give Holloway’s side a chance to […]

8 years ago

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has said that he can’t explain midfielder Paul Pogba’s recent form and that the player must be the one to answer those questions. Pogba has scored three goals and has provided nine assists in 19 Premier League games for United this season but has been in and out of the […]

8 years ago

Kevins Hurling and Camogie club have published a video containing drone footage of their local area in a bid to prevent the sale of a section of the Dolphin Park playing fields in south inner city Dublin. Kevins’, the oldest continuous hurling club in Dublin, share the fields with Templeogue Synge Street, however, the GAA have approved the […]

8 years ago

WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder has said that Anthony Joshua and his camp were considering hiring extra security for his planned trip to watch Saturday’s heavyweight title fight between the British Olympian and Joseph Parker. Wilder was initially scheduled to attend the fight as part of Sky Sports commentary team but the American has since […]

8 years ago

Everton manager Sam Allardyce has jokingly cited the €315.80m that Manchester City have spent this season as the biggest reason behind their improvement this season. The Premier League leaders head to Goodison Park this weekend with a 16-point lead at the top of the table with just eight games to play. Pep Guardiola’s side have […]

8 years ago

I can still remember the linesman’s name, that’s how much coverage Diarmuid Connolly’s push on Ciaran Branagan received last summer. As soon as Connolly’s left hand touched Branagan’s right shoulder in Dublin’s 12-point win over Carlow, the GAA world had something to talk about for the next month as we watched Dublin walk their way […]

8 years ago

Simon Zebo and Andrew Conway have both been named in the Muntster side for Saturday’s Champions Cup quarter-final with Toulon at Thomond Park. Zebo has overcome a hamstring injury to play while Conway (knee) and Rory Scannell have also returned as Munster look to get back to the Champions Cup semi-finals following last year’s defeat to Saracens at […]

8 years ago

Ireland flanker Rhys Ruddock has been named in the Leinster team to play Saracens in this Sunday’s Champions Cup quarter-final at the Aviva Stadium. Ruddock has recovered from a hamstring injury and has been named on the bench for Leinster while teammate Sean O’Brien has not recovered from a shoulder injury in time to be […]

8 years ago

Two-time All-Star Diarmuid Connolly has reportedly received interest from Dublin hurling boss Pat Gilroy ahead of the hurlers Leinster round robin opener with Kilkenny. Dublin will take on the Cats in the first round of the revamped All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship and it is understood that Gilroy may reach out to Connolly who has been […]

8 years ago

Irish golfers Padraig Harrington, Seamus Power and Paul Dunne are all in the hunt for a place at next week’s Masters after strong opening rounds on the first day of the Shell Houston Open. Harrington and Seamus Power both sit on minus five after shooting opening round 67s on day one, while Wicklow’s Paul Dunne leads […]

8 years ago

Unified world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has asked former world champion Tyson Fury to join him at Matchroom Boxing so that the two can arrange to fight each other. Joshua will defend his WBA (Super), IBF, and IBO heavyweight titles against Joseph Parker in Cardiff this Saturday and has been linked to fights with both Fury […]

8 years ago

Waterford football manager Tom McGlinchey is ‘angry and disappointed’ that the GAA have ruled the Déise’s final league game null and void. Three Division 4 fixtures – Waterford v Leitrim, Wicklow v Limerick and Laois v Antrim – will not be played after the GAA declared that an agreement could not be reached to play the matches […]

8 years ago

Former Ireland number eight Jamie Heaslip has said that Leinster senior coach Jamie Heaslip is up there with ‘the best coaches he’s ever worked under’. Lancaster spent one season with Heaslip at Leinster after leaving England following their Pool stage exit at the 2015  Rugby World Cup, and while the 48-year-old is earning rave reviews […]

8 years ago

Sometimes sport is simply about luck. You can plan, prepare, train and even play well in a tournament, but sometimes injury can decimate a team in one foul swoop, ala Ireland’s 2015 Rugby World Cup campaign. It’s too early in the week to determine just how big Munster’s challenge will be this Saturday when they […]

8 years ago

Former Republic of Ireland manager Brian Kerr has lamented the apparent lack of instructions from Martin O’Neill to his Ireland team. Ireland lost 1-0 in their first friendly of the year in Antalya, Turkey, last Friday and Kerr said that O’Neill’s side looks like a team that are playing without a pattern and without much […]

8 years ago

France World Cup winner Christophe Dugarry has ripped into Paul Pogba and Antoine Griezmann for their lack of concentration on their careers less than three months out from the start of the FIFA World Cup. Pogba was a second-half substitute in France’s 3-2 loss to Colombia on Friday, while Griezmann was a guest on the first […]

8 years ago

Rugby World Cup winner Conrad Smith revealed he looked up to former Ireland captain Brian O’Driscoll when he first started his career. Smith scored three tries in seven games against Ireland over an 11-year career with New Zealand, winning every match, but he said he enjoyed playing against Ireland and that he had fond memories […]

8 years ago

The Professional Rugby Injury Surveillance Project has revealed that the most commonly reported match injury in English Rugby was concussion for the sixth consecutive season. The report said that concussion accounted for 22% of all match injuries, and while there has been a continued focus on improving concussion awareness and promoting behavioural changes among players, coaches, referees and medical staff, together with […]

8 years ago

Ireland won their third Grand Slam title and their third Six Nations championship in the last five years this month when they beat England at Twickenham, but while some Irish players went traveling after the win, the vast majority of their French and English counterparts went straight back to club rugby. Rob Kearney, Conor Murray, […]

8 years ago

Rugby World Cup winner Conrad Smith has said that Ireland centre Bundee Aki was highly rated in New Zealand but was a player who was just unfortunate not to have been selected by the All Blacks. Aki moved to the west of Ireland from the Waikato Chiefs in 2014 and won a PRO12 title with […]

8 years ago

‘When hurling is played like that, it’s the greatest sport in the world’ is what you’ll often hear after a cracking game in the championship or a brilliant provincial match. Hurling is a brilliant game. This small ball sport where play ebbs and flows and where moments of individual brilliance can decide matches in such […]

8 years ago

Great news for Munster fans looking to attend this Saturday’s Champions Cup quarter-final with Toulon at Thomond Park as the province have announced that 1,000 extra tickets for the match will go on general sale today at noon. Munster will face a Toulon team coming off of a 49-0 win over Clermont last weekend, however, the […]

8 years ago

Embattled Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has cited ‘age discrimination’ behind increasing calls for him to leave the club he’s managed since 1996. Arsenal currently sit 33 points behind Premier League leaders Manchester City as the Gunners look set for another season without Champions League football, unless they can finish this season by winning the Europa […]

8 years ago

Dublin selector Jason Sherlock has accepted an eight-week ban for shouldering Galway forward Barry McHugh in the Dubs draw with the Tribesmen earlier this month. Video footage showed Sherlock shoulder McHugh in the back after the Mountbellew-Moylough player scuffled with Dublin forward Ciaran Kilkenny on the sideline. Dublin manager Jim Gavin confirmed the news after Dublin’s […]

8 years ago

Ulster second-row Iain Henderson surprised his Ireland teammate Jacob Stockdale with the Six Nations Player of the Championship trophy on Friday. Stockdale secured 32% of rugby fans’ votes as he edged out his Ireland teammates Conor Murray (18.2%), Jonathan Sexton (18%) and Keith Earls (14.5%) to win the award. The 21-year-old winger has 11 tries through […]

8 years ago

Eight-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt offered a decent account of himself at Borussia Dortmund training on Friday morning as he managed to nutmeg a defender and score from a Mario Gotze cross during a trial session with the club. The 100m world record holder scored during a training match with Dortmund after getting on […]

8 years ago

Seven of the 23 players that featured in Ireland’s 24-15 win over England last weekend have returned to their club sides for round 18 of the PRO14. Joey Carbery, Jordi Murphy, Andrew Porter, Seán Cronin and Jack McGrath have all returned to the Leinster side to face the Ospreys on Saturday, while in Ulster, Jacob […]

8 years ago

On November 8, 2015, in what was to be the first of three consecutive FAI Cup finals between Dundalk and Cork City, lilywhites forward Sean Maguire watched the final as an unused squad member for the then League Of Ireland champions. Maguire had scored just one goal in 10 games for Stephen Kenny’s side after […]

8 years ago

18-year-old Monaghan boxer Aaron McKenna extended his professional record to 2-0 with a brutal stoppage of Jose Palacios at the Indio’s Fantasy Springs Casino in California on Thursday night. The eight-time Irish champion and European Schoolboys gold medalist obliterated Palacios after the opening bell to add to his stylish unanimous-decision debut victory over 1-0 Travis Conley in December. […]

8 years ago

Leinster head coach Leo Cullen indicated that Ireland centre Robbie Henshaw could return to play for the province before the end of the season. Henshaw has not played since injuring his shoulder in Ireland’s Six Nations win over Italy last month but said that he was optimistic about returning for Leinster before the end of […]

8 years ago

Former England scrum-half Austin Healy has said that his only problem with Ireland’s Grand Slam winning team is that the players do too much playacting and screaming. Ireland won the Grand Slam with a 24-15 win over England last weekend, and while Healey did lament how vocal Ireland could be with what we’re assuming is […]

8 years ago

Nearly €60,000 has been raised for Cork GAA player Jack O’Driscoll who fractured the C5 vertebrae in his neck while playing out in the snow with his friends during Storm Emma. O’Driscoll was immediately brought to Cork University Hospital after his fall, however, the severity of his injury required him to be transferred to Dublin […]

8 years ago

Barcelona forward Lionel Messi has scored a ridiculous solo goal in Argentina training ahead of La Albiceleste’s with Italy on Friday evening.  Messi was instrumental in Argentina’s qualification campaign and scored a hat-trick in their final qualifying game against Ecuador to secure Jorge Sampaoli’s side a place in this summer’s World Cup finals in Russia. Messi is Argentina’s […]

8 years ago

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona’s Lionel Messi have both been omitted from the top 10 of ESPN’s list of the most dominant athletes of the last 20 years. ESPN produced the list of the most dominant athletes of the last 20 years to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ESPN The Magazine. The American broadcaster used a […]

8 years ago

When women’s sport makes national news in Ireland it’s either something really good or something really bad. There is very little room for those stories that lie somewhere in the middle. If a women’s sports story breaks into the national consciousness it’s either a Katie Taylor fight, a Puskas nominated strike from Stephanie Roche or a […]

8 years ago

England scrum-half Danny Care has said that Ireland centre Bundee Aki should have received at least a yellow card for his first-half tackle on winger Elliot Daly during Ireland’s 24-15 win over England on Saturday. Aki shoulder charged Daly in the 26th minute and the incident was flagged by assistant referee Nigel Owens who suggested […]

8 years ago

Nine-time All Star and four-time All-Ireland winner Kate Kelly has called for the All-Ireland senior and intermediate club championship finals to be moved to Croke Park after the Camogie Association revealed on Tuesday that the deciders will now take place on Saturday 24 March in St. Tiernach’s Park, Clones, Co. Monaghan. The original fixtures were supposed […]

8 years ago

The GPA will have their second annual Boston dinner next month at the Intercontinental Hotel on Friday, April 6. Tickets for the evening cost between $500-$50,000 and the dinner will ‘celebrate and acknowledge the deep historical and cultural ties between Ireland and the United States, recognizing a shared ancestry of which Ireland’s unique Gaelic sporting heritage […]

8 years ago

A rugby Grand Slam doesn’t quite heal all the wounds from a humiliating 5-1 World Cup play-off defeat to Denmark last November, but it can lighten the mood. Eight of the 23 players that lined out for Ireland at Twickenham on St. Patrick’s Day were aged 25 or under, a remarkable testament of Irish Rugby’s production […]

8 years ago

Jacob Stockdale has a long way to go before he can catch Julian Savea’s mark of 46 international tries, but with 11 tries in nine Tests, he’s certainly made a good start. Stockdale scored one of Ireland’s three tries in the 24-15 win over England on Saturday as Ireland won their third Grand Slam title. […]

8 years ago

Waterford hurler Conor Gleeson braved his way through the snow on Sunday to make it to the Deise’s Division 1A relegation play-off with Cork. Gleeson started his journey to Páirc Uí Rinn on the back of a tractor but then had to turn around and head home after it became clear that that plan was not going […]

8 years ago