Charlie Smyth made history yesterday by becoming the first GAA player to be signed by the NFL when he put pen to paper for the New Orleans Saints as their new kicker. Despite growing up in County Down as a young promising goalkeeper who had never played American football competitively, the ...

“I am determined to do everything in my power to become an Olympian.”Irish former world champion Amy Broadhurst is on the brink of making a sensational switch and represent the UK instead of Ireland, in a bid to make the 2024 Olympics. Broadhurst has been fighting to achieve her Olympic dream ...

Gaelic football is forever evolving, and tactical innovations are regularly being introduced, copied and then tweaked by counties all over Ireland. The game used to be as simple as 15 players playing against another 15, you marked your marker, and that was that. Then teams started defending ...

The whole fate of a game, decided by a coin The final of the SAFF Women’s U19 Championship was decided in controversial fashion as they used a coin toss to determine the winner. India faced Bangladesh in the final and the game initially finished 1-1 in normal time after Bangladesh cancelled ...

A Sunday of family feuds. The family ties between the Tyrone and Derry teams facing each other this weekend go much deeper than just Mickey Harte and his history with the counties. Tyrone and Derry have always been neighbouring rivals, and if you were to drive through Mid Ulster in ...

Doubters to believers and critics to word eaters. All of the important dates associated with Jurgen Klopp's time as Liverpool manager are typically in the summer months of May or June. It was on June 1, 2019, when Klopp lifted Liverpool's sixth ever European Cup trophy, after losing the ...

"Scholes never liked going away." Roy Keane has opened up about conversations he had with his former Manchester United teammate Pail Scholes who didn't like international duty and retired early to prolong his club career. Scholes retired from international duty back in 2004 but went on to ...