5 young guns to watch out for in this year’s Allianz Football League

Allianz Football League Division 2: More than half as competitive as the real Ulster championship

BREAKING: Keith Earls commits his future to Munster in new three-year deal

Warren Gatland not convinced provincial disappointments will hinder Ireland

Getting ahead of ourselves, but Republic of Ireland looking good for Euro 2016 penalty shootout*

VIDEO: Ready to feel patriotic? Leitrim GAA have released footage of heroic anthem rendition

Johnny Sexton can avoid more head injuries with a new tackle technique, believes Shane Horgan

Another Kilkenny player expresses unhappiness with Championship they win nearly every year

OPINION: It is not sensationalist to be worried about Johnny Sexton’s concussion history

Injured and on his way to Wasps… when will Marty Moore play for Ireland again?

TRANSFER TALK: The moment of reckoning looms for floundering Louis van Gaal

Great news from Sligo as Johnny Martyn set to be released from hospital

VIDEO: How one Monaghan GAA club picked itself off the floor to reach All-Ireland semi-final

Johnny Sexton keeps his cool as he responds to those Zlatan Ibrahimovic comparisons

Transfer talk: With his future in doubt Louis Van Gaal is restricted to teenage kicks

GPA revolt against accusations they have lost the will to fight

OPINION: Fans may be disappointed but Joe Schmidt was right to exclude Garry Ringrose

Rejoice! After four long months intercounty GAA is back on our screens next week

Joe Schmidt’s provincial wishlist for the weekend as Six Nations looms

OPINION: Liverpool need to look beyond Shane Long to solve their problems

Greatest sportsperson of 2015? The quick answer: Usain Bolt

Munster make three changes to starting XV for derby clash with Leinster

VIDEO: Sprinter Sacre overtakes Sire de Grugy with huge jump at the last

VIDEO: Explosive new documentary claims Peyton Manning took growth hormones in 2011

Twin link-up could see Galway and Mayo playing a few hurling challenge matches next year

Jonathan Walters’ performance against Bosnia just became more heroic

Out of work less than two weeks and already Jose Mourinho is wanted by one of his former clubs

Shane Long’s goals-per-minute ratio is going through the roof*

VIDEO: Ulster’s foul-mouthed match-winner Nick Williams got a right telling off from the referee

VIDEO: Louis van Gaal suggests he may resign in wake of Stoke defeat

Divock Origi the latest victim of the Anfield hamstring curse

Jurgen Klopp is whipping his mixed-bag Liverpool team into shape

WATCH: Cue Card prevails in an unbelievable finish to the King George

Proof that this has been Manchester United’s worst Christmas in more than a decade

PICTURES: Shane Lowry among the brave racegoers to make it to Leopardstown

15 of the funniest and nastiest sporting Twitter spats of the past 12 months

Anderson Silva is getting back into the Octagon this February in London

Connacht make a dozen changes for St Stephen’s Day clash with Ulster

No Ian Keatley or Johnny Sexton for Sunday’s Christmas cracker

Trailblazing referee Maggie Farrelly to achieve another first in the New Year

Frankie Edgar declares he could take a left “from the whole of Ireland” as he calls out Conor McGregor

Defiant Louis van Gaal all but tells media to go f*** themselves

VIDEO: NFL star Dez Bryant once raced a horse (and lost)

Video technology in the Premier League could be closer than we think

Dundalk FC congratulate “Character of the Year” despite his criminal past

VIDEO: Martin O’Neill opens up on his relationship with Roy “The Growler” Keane

Ulster battering ram Nick Williams is barging off to Cardiff next season

Stephen Moore could have been a Munster player, if they had stumped up more cash

VIDEO: Proof that Martin O’Neill could once stand to be in the same room as Eamon Dunphy

Tyrone camogie club looking for manager after outbreak of matrimony