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Sarah Cunningham who traded New York board rooms to Inchicore boxing ring

Even in the moment of elation, Lara Gillespie recognised the scream from her former PE teacher.

Friday August 22, Turin

The day after Sarah Healy was knocked out of the Paris Olympics last August, her coach Jenny Meadows raised a question that was difficult to ask yet impossible to ignore.

Two weeks ago, Rory Townsend faced a fact that put his unorthodox journey into sharp focus. Ahead of the Tour of Flanders, it was pointed out to the former Irish national champion that he was the olde...

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For nine years, a near-decade packed with drama, some great days but also some trying ones, it was his place of work.

Ireland have been dealt a late blow ahead of tomorrow’s Six Nations clash with Scotland at Murrayfield, as Mack Hansen is ruled out with a hamstring injury.

It’s 10.45am on a cool Wednesday morning when Robbie Keane emerges to survey the main pitch at the Nepligeti sports complex, an impressive facility south-east of Budapest city centre.

There is a certain irony to how Billy Dardis’ career ended where he had spent much of his playing days – in the shadows, far away from the glitz and the glamour of rugby’s bright lights.

Sanita Puspure’s international rowing career ended last year without the public recognition it merited but she didn’t pass on the chance to speak her mind in Rowing Ireland’s private review of the Par...

Rory Gallagher has called on GAA president Jarlath Burns to withdraw his action last weekend in contacting Naas GAA to urge caution against Gallagher's appointment as a coach to the club's senior foot...

Drogheda United has distanced itself from Conor McGregor after the ­controversial MMA fighter posed with the FAI Cup to promote his pub and alcohol brand.

From small victories and major triumphs, these are the 2024 highlights of the Irish Independent team.

The most interesting League of Ireland season in a generation was elevated by the impact of the title-winning manager, with Damien Duff collecting award after award on the run-up to Christmas.

Connacht winger Mack Hansen delivered an extraordinary criticism of referee Chris Busby and his television match official Mark Patton after last night’s defeat to Leinster.

A former minor Limerick footballer and national athletics champion who was lured to a savage beating by two brothers of All-Star hurler Kyle Hayes, told a sentencing court today: “They beat me like th...

An analysis of Mayo GAA accounts over the last 11 years has shown a big post-Covid jump in gate receipts — even as the team has floundered on the pitch.

In the next few months, Andrew Conway and his wife Liz will pack up their house in Castletroy, strap Caelan and Hailey into the back of the car and move back to Dublin, closing a significant chapter…

For years, they were the wide boys, the ones asked to play out on the flanks for Ireland; Damien Duff on one wing and Aiden McGeady on the other.

Much like the majority of Tuesday night’s utterly slipshod performance, one that had been in the planning for 18 months, the last thing Irish supporters should expect from the subsequent fallout is an...

Given how often they are in each other’s company in the pressure cooker of the League of Ireland standard season, you might expect Damien Duff and Joey O’Brien to make the most of the off-season and s...

Andy Farrell looks set to hand Sam Prendergast the Ireland No 10 shirt for the second consecutive match.

The UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup series returns to Dublin this weekend with some of the best riders in this all-action discipline set for a day of mud, sweat and gears.

César Tárrega, whose home town was badly hit by the floods, scored the first goal in an emotional defeat of Betis

“It’s a privilege, but it’s all a challenge,” says Paddy Daly, the man who’s been handed the responsibility of turning a small corner of Dublin into a home fit for the diehard Belgian cyclo-cross fans...