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Start 'em young: Tadgh Sauvage has a puck around outside Walsh Park in Waterford

What does it take to produce a successful GAA intercounty player?

Irish hockey players celebrate a win in the 2018 Hockey World Cup quarter-final. Photo: Craig Mercer/Sportsfile

More women, less coverage: a question of sports and the media

Sport • 19 Oct

"When Covid-19 brought a halt to the sporting world for athletes, it was not dissimilar to sustaining an injury" Photo: Getty Images

How Covid-19 was the injury athletes never saw coming

Sport • 14 Oct

Cian Healy is attended to by team-doctor Dr Eanna Falvey at the Ireland v South Africa game in 2012. Photo: Ray McManus/ Sportsfile

9 things to know about concussion in sport

Sport • 30 Sep

3,483km done: Sam Bennett wins the final stage of the Tour de France 2020 ahead of Mads Pedersen and Peter Sagan

How does cycling 3,483km in 21 days affect your body?

Cycling • 23 Sep

The Galway team take the pitch for The Big Game in Castlebar in 1987. Photo: Macnas Archives

A game of two halves: when Irish sport meets theatre

Culture • 21 Aug

Kathryn Dane is tackled by Paige Randall during the Ireland vs Wales match in Dublin in November 2019

How do rugby injuries compare between male and female players?

Rugby • 14 Aug

The most famous goal in Gaelic football history: Seamus Darby takes off for a jig after his goal against Kerry in the 1982 All Ireland final

Why are GAA goal celebrations so low-key?

Do you have an obsessive or compulsive need to exercise to the detriment of your quality of life?

Are you addicted to exercise?

Health • 23 Jul

Dublin's Sinéad Goldrick and Niamh McEvoy celebrate victory over Mayo in the 2017 TG4 Ladies Football All-Ireland final at Croke Park. Photo: Cody Glenn/ Sportsfile

How ladies' football went from carnival sideshow to Croke Park

Sport • 23 Jul

Thomas Conneff: "in 1891, he reduced the American mile record to 4 minutes 21 seconds and ran it in 4 minutes 17.8 seconds two years later"

'The little Irish wonder': Ireland's greatest unknown athlete

Sport • 21 Jul

The future of the Olympics?

Is it time to bring Gaelic games back to the Olympics?

Olympic Games • 16 Jul

You only sing when you're winning: fans have been replaced by cardboard cutouts in the stand and artificial crowd noise on TV broadcasts

C'mon feel the noise: football fans and artificial crowd noise

Sport • 09 Jul

Is running a marathon under two hours humanly possible?

How sport uses science in the pursuit of medals, wins and records

Podcast • 15 Jul

Researchers found that appetite and food intake were increased after swimming in both males and females. Photo: Getty Images

Why does swimming make you hungry?

Swimming • 02 Jul

Lights, cameras, timber

How hurling conquered Hollywood

Gaelic Games • 02 Jul

Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp who oversaw the club's first league title win since 1990

The winner takes it all: when losing streaks come to an end

Sport • 26 Jun

Head and shoulders ahead of the pack: Mo Salah is the most expensive player in the Fantasy Premier League at present

A lesson in economics from Mo Salah, Kevin de Bruyne & Sadio Mané

Fantasy Football • 25 Jun

The Wexford Gaelic football team who won the delayed 1918 All-Ireland football final against Tipperary. Photo: GAA

How sport returned in Ireland after the 1918 flu pandemic

Sport • 17 Jun

Ouch

How to recover from an exercise injury

Health • 15 Jun

The Gooch at large: Colm Cooper in his Kerry heyday

The stories behind 12 great GAA nicknames

Nicknames • 20 May

"As we attempt to manage lockdown, each of us are reliant on the arts"

Is it time for a daily arts report on the news just like sports?

Culture • 14 May

"Athletes and sports people can improve their recovery from training and competition by choosing foods that promote sleep"

How food affects the sleep of athletes and sportspeople

Sleep • 12 May

The late great RTÉ broadcaster Bill O'Herlihy during Italia '90

Why nostalgia is part and parcel of how we relate to sport

Sport • 30 Apr

Derry-born James McClean after the Republic of Ireland's Euro 2020 qualifier against Denmark in Dublin in November 2019. Photo: Seb Daly/Sportsfile via Getty Images

A game of two halves: Ireland's two footballing nations

Sport • 01 May

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