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Last year
2022
Frank and honest, Ireland's Hampden heroes and more of the week's best sportswriting
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Farewell to Federer, Savannah's story and more of the week's best sportswriting
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Serena's farewell, Best and Charlton's feud and the rest of the week's best sportswriting
Plus, a beautiful recollection of the late Dillon Quirke’s funeral.
What happens when a footballer leaves a club and more of the week's best sportswriting
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Katie did it, the dodgy keeper and the rest of the week's best sportswriting
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The Finn Harps ride, the Olympic experience of Kamila Valieva and the week's best sportswriting
Enjoy a selection of some of our favourite pieces published elsewhere over the last seven days.
Earls and Hank meet McRae, Here We Go and the week's best sportswriting
Enjoy a selection of some of our favourite pieces published elsewhere over the last seven days.
All time
Ryder Cup fever, football friendship to 'match-fixing' and more of the week's best sportswriting
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A brilliant column from Tokyo, the career of Ger Canning and the week's best sportswriting
Plus, an interesting read on cheating in sport, which was shared in our The42 Members’ Behind The Lines WhatsApp group.
Some top football pieces, the coaching couple setting the Barr high, and the week's best sportswriting
With the Euros on, there’s plenty of football writing in there.
Sir Alex Ferguson, a famous cycling family, and the week's best sportswriting
Time to boil the kettle…
The 'athletic freak' that is Lindsay Peat, José's quiet departure, and the week's best sportswriting
Boil the kettle, it’s that time of the week…
The current state of Irish football, the late, great David Rocastle, and the week's best sportswriting
Stick the kettle on, and crack open an Easter egg for breakfast…
A farewell to Dermo, mayhem as the transfer window closes and the week's best sportswriting
Boil the kettle and get reading…
Clare make hurling history, Zizou at Dalyer and more of the week's best sportswriting
Stick on the kettle and settle in to some of our favourite pieces from the last seven days, including a stunning Bohemians oral history.
A GAA journey from Poland to Dublin coach, a beautiful tribute to a late star and the week's best sportswriting
Get the kettle boiled, there are some brilliant pieces be to read.
A method actor in football's theatre of absurd, 'Keep Women out of Croker' and the week's best sportswriting
Enjoy some of our favourite reads from the last week.
A nod to encouraging sporting parents, a journey from prison to the podium and the week's best sportswriting
Stick the kettle on, it’s that time of the week.
How Moyross made Keith Earls, a beautiful tribute to a late colleague and the week's best sportswriting
A selection of our favourite sporting pieces from the past seven days.
A touching tribute to late Limerick boxer Kevin Sheehy and the week's best sportswriting
Plus, a heartwarming World Cup story and a family affair with the Hendersons.
I'm Kellie Harrington, Arsenal simply stopped making you feel and the week's best sportswriring
Plus, an interesting League of Ireland piece and ‘I had lost my identity, who am I without sport?’
The Irish running rivalry fuelled by hate, Limerick's magical summer and the week's best sportswriting
Stick on the kettle, sit back and enjoy.
Solveig and Hegerberg, the greatest game never played and the week's best sportswriting
Plus, a ‘footballing fairytale told in Longford accent.’
Here are the 23 contenders for the 2018 eir Sport Sports Book of the Year
The42 is represented twice on the longlist.
A search for one's family, the Oh-So-Close Men and the week's best sportswriting
Stick on the kettle and settle into some of our favourite sports articles from this week.
Limerick's 'biggest let-down', a powerful story of struggle and survival and more of the week's best sportswriting
It’s Sunday morning so stick the kettle on and have a read of our selection of the week’s best sportswriting.
Kilkenny v Tipperary 1968, Arsenal's miracle worker Wenger and the week's best sportswriting
Boil the kettle, go on…..
The Irish teenager dreaming big at Inter Milan and the week's best sportswriting
A few teasers for some of our favourite sportswriting from the week that was.
McIlroy and Harrington sit down with Kimmage and the week's best sportswriting
It’s Sunday morning and you know what that means….. stick the kettle on and feast your eyes on some brilliant long reads.
Stringer at 40, Phil Taylor's curtain call and the week's best sportswriting
It’s Sunday morning and you know what that means….. stick the kettle on and feast your eyes on some brilliant long reads.
From the FA Vase to the Bernabeu, coming out at 47 and the week's best sportswriting
It’s Sunday morning and you know what that means….. stick the kettle on and feast your eyes on some brilliant long reads.
Sumo scandals, finding peace in a Greek monastery and the rest of the week's best sportswriting
It’s Sunday morning so stick the kettle on and have a read of our selection of the week’s best sportswriting.
Overcoming addiction to reach the top again, Ireland's rebel without a pause and the week's best sportswriting
It’s Sunday morning and you know what that means….. stick the kettle on and feast your eyes on some brilliant long reads.
The bright future of Irish athletics, living in Tom Brady's shoes and the week's best sportswriting
Plus, two American swimming siblings and their respective coming out stories.
Dean Rock on 'you know who', the rise of Colombian cyclists and the week's best sportswriting
Plus a 41-year-old inter-county footballer’s heartbreaking but inspiring story.
Coleman's rise to the top, Jim McClean's forgotten glory years at Dundee and the week's best sportswriting
Plus, the last days of Aaron Hernandez’s life before his death this week.
Rory in Wonderland falls down a rabbit hole, Father Ted and LOI and the week's best sportswriting
Plus, “drone dunks” and La La Land.
From meth addict to Olympic silver, Leaving Cert maths and rugby collide and the week's best sportswriting
Plus, the end of the ‘stick to sports’ era for sportswriters.
'The beginnings of the sexual revolution in Derry’ and more of the week's best sportswriting
Plus Sue Ronan banned from street football and ‘Dear Football Gods, we need to talk’.
Ranieri on Leicester's secrets, the complexity of transgender athletes and, the week's best sportswriting
Also, how Jason Day’s complicated and complex family background pushed him to become the best golfer in the world while just how new is the new Fifa?