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'Losing weight is a lot like baking a cake'
'I was getting less money to take over Cork City than I was in Diageo'
'When everything else goes to s**t you’ve still got your team... Until it gets taken away'
'Everybody was having a laugh. Those were indeed the days when you could enjoy yourself with the players'
'Rashford had helped raise around £20million for FareShare, shattering his initial target of £100,000'
'We wouldn’t wear the club colours and if the ‘parkie’ came along we’d disappear'
'At times I barely had money for the fuel... I sometimes had to sleep in the car'
'48 metres out, just off-centre of the posts, the pressure of four nations on his shoulders'
'Eriksson accepted the position of United manager, and had even signed a contract'
'I wasn’t told about his death until immediately after the game'
'He wondered if rugby was responsible, blamed himself for letting me play'
''Once the term ‘Dublin footballer’ was mentioned, people looked at and treated me differently''
The story of the Irish duo that helped pull off a famous college basketball victory
'I would go and spar sometimes with the worst headaches but I was too proud'
'I stopped worrying about rugby after Axel died'
Irish fiction to look forward to in 2022
GAA stars reveal tips that helped them make it to the top
'I saw 89 missed calls...You’ll be named today as failing a drugs test'
In 2012, a Donegal man 'cheated death' racing across America. Two years later, he tried again
Declan O'Rourke: 'I think we all have these ghosts and figures lurking in the past'
Opinion: Want to write a book? Maybe all it takes is a chat with your 10-year-old self...
Larry Donnelly: When politics is the business of an Irish-American political family
'Will this be Opportunity Lost 2.0?': State must 'learn from mistakes' of past redress schemes
The rise and fall of the world's greatest football club
'Visitors for the fight had spent $92 million... What one tourism official compared to four New Year’s Eves'
'Bonavena’s insult had to be translated, but when Ali heard it he became incensed'
'I assured him there’d be no head shots if he promised to fall down at my signal'
'I had no idea about this' - Boxing's biggest taboo and the man seeking to highlight it
'I had fallen out of love with the game because of all the things that manifested in the Super League'
WIN: A signed copy of the acclaimed Irish novel Leonard and Hungry Paul
Roman Abramovich launches legal action over controversial new book
Guilt, messiness and forgiving yourself: What I learned from being a professional declutterer
'Thank God he eventually lost consciousness; it was only when he relaxed that I could free the buckle'
'All I had to do was imagine my father’s face when confronted by his daughter’s puffed up, battered eye socket'
'This small, beautiful woman and her f***ed-up, broken life'
'We had just been in close contact with the Atlético players and probably 60 others'
'Kenny Dalglish was a legend of the game... He was there to support us and Seán in any way he could'
'My message isn't to be the best. My message is to be the best you can be'
'In the heat of the match he could be frightening... He was a colossus'
Caitlin Moran: 'It continues to be a really revolutionary thing for a woman to say: I am happy'