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'My mind and body are feeling good but I just don't think I can do it any more'
4 Mar 2018
48.7k
13
'I don't subscribe to all that stuff about having too much money. I love living a quiet life'
8 Oct 2017
66.4k
57
‘I’d drive 5km between my apartment and the academy - it was just littered with homeless kids’
20 Aug 2017
30.9k
4
'I was a young fella from Cork on a laptop to India and was bought for $65,000'
2 Jul 2017
24.1k
9
'People still remember me for marking Ronaldo in the FA Cup final and it's quite nice to tell my kid'
18 Jun 2017
32.7k
7
‘There were possibilities to go to England when I was younger, but my parents were never going to let me move’
13 May 2017
12.5k
The one county that were without a senior hurling team: Cavan reignite the flame
30 Apr 2017
10.2k
21
'I was desperate to go to the toilet... So I peed over the balcony and there was a nurse underneath'
29 Apr 2017
47.7k
50
'I had 10 operations in 12 days... They said they may have to cut it from the knee down'
15 Apr 2017
61.2k
10
One team, one goal: German rugby working hard to make World Cup dream a reality
12 Mar 2017
28.4k
31
Ireland's toughest endurance race returns this weekend
9 Mar 2017
10.0k
5
'People told me I was mad when I bought Swindon and it's the same with Waterford'
2 Mar 2017
32.4k
20
'I sent off the player... He struck me in the aftermath'
23 Feb 2017
11.2k
2
'I do feel pressure but I believe strongly in Irish athletes, Irish coaches and Ireland as a nation'
19 Feb 2017
8.6k
11
The Monaco-based Cork millionaire behind a unique Irish sporting project
12 Feb 2017
52.8k
7
Facebook launches 'community help' feature to aid people dealing with disasters or tragedies
8 Feb 2017
4.9k
4
'There are people out there who want me to fail but that drives you on more'
4 Feb 2017
22.3k
18
'I've cried more times over injuries in the last number of years than anything else'
29 Jan 2017
28.1k
4
'I was never interested in making friends in football'
22 Jan 2017
30.1k
9
The Irish Powerchair team set to take on the world this summer
15 Jan 2017
2.2k
1
38-year-old Irish Olympian Breege Connolly one of the unsung heroes of 2016
8 Jan 2017
21.4k
4
The Irish pair aiming to make history in the world's toughest bike race
8 Jan 2017
31.6k
9
'This decision will have a lot of influence on my career one way or another but I'm happy with it'
2 Jan 2017
32.4k
9
‘I was either going to get the boat to die in England or go to an NA meeting’
1 Jan 2017
25.1k
6
‘I had a moment where I was considering walking away from sport’
29 Dec 2016
20.1k
4
From West Waterford to the PGA Tour: 2016 only the start of Power's journey to the top
27 Dec 2016
14.4k
5
Double sporting success makes 2016 a year to remember in Dublin suburb
26 Dec 2016
13.9k
3
'I didn't grow up dreaming of owning a gym. I had no money and had to take the opportunity'
24 Dec 2016
34.8k
4
The story of how Ireland took the Taekwon-do world by storm
4 Dec 2016
35.5k
13
‘You start thinking about Best in a different way because you’re forced to look at him’
6 Nov 2016
21.0k
14
"There's a lot of shame around it too, people go 'Ah, that's a fake condition'" - Living with adult ADHD
16 Oct 2016
31.1k
59
Severed bull's head and boycotts: German football fans fear the rise of 'plastic clubs'
13 Oct 2016
7.6k
8
The life of Katie: Four years on from London, Ireland's golden girl faces her greatest challenge
15 Aug 2016
31.6k
43
'One of their big worries is: how do I handle walking into the Olympic Village and seeing my heroes'
6 Aug 2016
20.7k
2
At 38, 4 years after her first competitive marathon, Breege Connolly is set for the Olympics
1 Aug 2016
28.2k
8
Ex-Belgian star De Bilde on relegation, playing abroad and being jailed for punching a rival
18 Jun 2016
3.8k
1
Letter from Versailles: Flying with Polish fans and battling a French monsoon with Jean-Claude Van Damme
16 Jun 2016
4.5k
1
The sports-reporter-turned-analyst for the Northern Irish football team
12 Jun 2016
17.9k
26
The Irish boxing club where a young Conor McGregor learned to fight
6 Jun 2016
26.1k
9
Behind the scenes at the Rás, an international sporting event that remains quintessentially Irish
6 Jun 2016
3.7k
3
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