Yes, it’s bloated and yes it’s enervating and its confusing, but it’s absorbing with it. And enriching and unique. Even if sports isn’t normally your thing.

It felt right that some of our number from Portlaoise were at the Riazor on Sunday and will be again when the the club and the city celebrates Deportivo’s return to the light. My brother Kev would love that, all of it.

'Reading a few comments after the game it looked like Ireland were already in the quarter-finals and [there are] even people chatting today saying that Ireland are playing New Zealand, so for us maybe that’s already been decided'

If you know your history then this most striking of cities in the southwest of France has a bloody past where Ireland is concerned.

Ireland manager sees her side undone by top opposition again as collective fade gives her plenty to ponder on flight Down Under

In an emotional pilgrimage to Galicia in northern Spain, Brendan O'Brien's love and connection with a brother taken too soon settles in a tranquil corner at Deportivo La Coruna's Estadio Riazor

Last week, I was driving through the outskirts of Longford town. I practically had vertigo by the time I had bypassed it. 

The Bray boxer didn't merely follow the footsteps of the glorious and Notorious to this historic night. Like a warrior monk, she plotted her own way

Saturday's game at the Stade de France will be the Mayo native' first game of professional rugby on French soil