Vera Pauw’s reign as Ireland women’s manager is over. The Dutch woman helped Ireland qualify for last month’s women’s World Cup, becoming the first manager ever to do so, but that wasn’t enough. Tension and off-field issues stalked the Irish team into Australia and beyond and ultimately, the association have opted against offering Pauw a […]
Rhasidat Adeleke finished an agonising fourth place in the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. The rigours and battle-scars of an incredibly long season finally caught up on the Tallaght sensation, they had to at some point, and she was almost a second off her best in what will be her final run of the season. […]
You could cut the tension with a knife in The Sunday Game studios. Joanne Cantwell and Donal Óg Cusack got stuck into it on this Munster championship Super Sunday. Anthony Daly and Joe Canning were the first to arrive on the scene. It all started when Cantwell decided to take Óg Cusack up on his […]
Virgin Media has issued a statement on the back of the recent debate surrounding GAA broadcasting. Unrest has been in the GAA air these past few weeks over the coverage of our games. It all came to a head on Sunday night when, from the RTÉ studios in Donnybrook, former Cork goalkeeper Donal Óg Cusack’s […]
The LGFA has revealed that it is ‘committed to the inclusion’ of transgender women in their sport. They have also said that they “will not tolerate any harassment or discrimination” of said transgender players. Players that this rule applies to can make an application to the newly set-up Transgender Application Committee (TAC). Ratified on Wednesday, […]
The Irish women’s team will host France in Tallaght stadium in a big send-off ahead of the World Cup. There were hopes that the game would take place in the Aviva Stadium but due to ‘scheduled pitch redevelopment work,’ that is no longer a possibility. With the game now set to take place in Shamrock […]
When Ursula Jacob was first asked to do the hurling on The Sunday Game, she had to do a double-take. Jacob had been working as a camogie pundit for four years at that stage but until then, she hadn’t considered the prospect of working on the men’s game. But along with Anna Geary, she was […]
There’ll be no sleeping after that one. Paul O’Donovan and his double-sculls partner Fintan McCarthy have won the Olympic Gold medal after another brilliant row on the Tokyo water. Expectations were high heading into the final, and the men from Skibbereen didn’t disappoint, clawing back the German pace-setters before powering to victory in the final […]
“Monday is my easy day. I only have to run for six or seven miles that day” They never said it would be easy, this athletics craic. The loneliness of the long distance runner is a phrase as old as time and its relevance will last forever more. Athletics, running in particular, is one of […]
Ireland 3-2 Ukraine Denise O’Sullivan screams for the ball. She roars at her Ireland teammates to push forward. ‘Our ball’ she shouts just to keep the lines woman on her toes. The Cork woman who has found a home in Australia, is right at home here in Tallaght Stadium for the Irish womens’ crucial Euro […]
Brought to you by Centra #WeAreHurling Ever since Paul Curran vacated the Tipperary square in 2015, leaving more than a decade of unbroken service behind him, the Premier county have struggled to find a body for that number three jersey. A meantime filled by stop-gaps more so than mainstays, the years ran by and Tipperary […]
The Ireland machine rolls on. The Irish under-20 women’s basketball team are wiping out all before them at the European championship Division B over in Kosovo and they’ve a semi-final to look forward to now. Having coasted through the group stages with comfortable wins over Ukraine and Great Britain, they were catapulted into a quarter […]