“She’s laughing at me, and I’m being nice!”Abbie Larkin and Izzy Atkinson are not long in from the training field and have each other for back-up in our midweek chat, over Zoom.The Ireland internationals are not long in the door at Crystal Palace and are already eyeing a leap to the Women’s ...

“And through it AAAAALLLLLLLL!!!!”The TV cameras could only stay around for so long. The fans that even wanted to stay eventually got ushered out. The media had to skip off to file stories and share video clips. When Aviva Stadium had just about settled down again, the Ireland squad real ...

“Get out of the way, you p***k!”Almost as soon as Tommy Fleetwood secured The Ryder Cup for Team Europe, in Italy last September, the victors could look back and laugh at the Day 2 drama. Shane Lowry was certainly able to revel in the moment he went from agitated spectator to car-park ...

FRANCE 17-38 IRELAND Joe McCarthy justified all the faith shown in him by Andy Farrell, his coaches and his Ireland teammates as he moshed some big French operators on an historic night in France. The Leinster lock was given the No.5 jersey, ahead of James Ryan and Iain Henderson, when ...

“The kid who can do no wrong, wins again!” Luke Littler was warned, ahead of his Premier League Darts debut, by Michael van Gerwen that he was in ‘with the big boys’. After the first quarter final stage of the new season, the teenager had avenged a world championships defeat, while MVG was on ...

The Irish premiere had two very special rugby guests. Keith Earls and Johnny Sexton helped Ireland to a rake of trophies over the course of their respective rugby careers. As their former teammates target a Six Nations Grand Slam defence, they were in Dublin for the launch of a new rugby ...