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World Cup - Premium - Tommy Conlon - Opinion - A game that started out in muck and nettles in the industrial age is now trapped in the matrix of technology - In the battle between man and machine, it's hard to know who should win and who should lose, or, indeed, if it ought to be a perpetual drawn game between the two.

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United Rugby Championship - Leinster bring the second half heat to burn off Ulster in URC thriller - A few minutes before half time at a squally and miserable RDS we were thinking if Ulster could just apply themselves to the exercise of maintaining discipline then they'd withstand pretty much anything the weather or the home team threw at them.

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Boxing -- 'Hey rabbit, you're next' - Tyson Fury taunts Oleksandr Usyk after WBC heavyweight title win over Derek Chisora

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World Cup - Lionel Messi inspires Argentina to victory over Australia as Netherlands date looms in World Cup quarter-final

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Soccer - Doctors confirm Pele 'stable' and responding to treatment

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Soccer -- Netherlands' latest success fails to lift pressure on Louis van Gaal

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Gaelic Football -- The big interview: Jack O'Connor on trusting others, getting into players' heads and not resting on your laurels

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League of Ireland -- Dundalk defender Brian Gartland announces retirement from football

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World Cup -- Louis van Gaal 'very, very pleased' as Netherlands book World Cup quarter-final place with victory over USA

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Hurling -- Ballygunner claim Munster Senior Hurling club title as class shines through against Ballyea

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World Cup -- The Indo World Cup, episode 15: Tears and anger from Uruguay and Brian Kerr previews today's games

6 hours ago

Golf -- Gary Hurley produces sensational finish in South African Open

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United Rugby Championship -- Connacht have enough firepower to see off challenge of Benetton at Sportsground

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World Cup - Premium - Gary Breen - Opinion - Total football has become total pragmatism for Louis van Gaal's Dutch but USA will test them to the full

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Soccer -- 'Professional contracts are available in this country for men, why should they not be available to women?'

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Gaelic Football -- 'David was involved in that right up to his death' – Lasting legacy lives on for Moycullen's man of action

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Tensions boil over as Switzerland seal place in last 16 with victory over Serbia

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Cameroon captain Vincent Aboubakar sees red for goal celebration after shocking Brazil with late winner

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'There's something untoward going on' – Graeme Souness suspicious after VAR allows Japan goal to stand

12 hours ago

Golf - Premium - Gallery - Paul Kimmage meets Rory McIlroy: 'I'm still crying. It's hard for me to keep my composure'

4 days ago

Premium - Eamonn Sweeney - Opinion - European indifference and shock wins point to new dawn for global game

4 days ago

Premium - Gallery - 'I want to be the best and when that's not happening, it eats away at you. I had my own mental demons'

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Getting married today, All-Ireland Club semi-final tomorrow – All in a weekend's work for Donaghmoyne's Cathriona McConnell

6 days ago

Premium - 'When I started out, it was to have a few winners. I didn't see this happening' – Henry de Bromhead

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World Cup -- David Kelly -- Grisly concussion incidents another feature of this World Cup's distorted reality

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World Cup -- Vincent Hogan -- The best player in Qatar is already giving Ireland a feeling of dread - and we don't play him until March

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Rugby -- Cian Tracey -- Munster not forgetting their DNA in quest to adopt a more expansive game-plan

2 days ago

World Cup -- Daniel McDonnell -- Doha braced for Argentina fever as Lionel Messi's World Cup dream moves closer to reality

2 days ago

GAA - Premium - The race for Andy Merrigan: a tale of club giants and giant-killers

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International Rugby -- Brendan Fanning -- England will be asking two questions about Eddie Jones – and he might not like the answers

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World Cup -- The Indo World Cup, episode 14: A day like no other in Qatar, Portugal the dark horses and USA hype -- Dan McDonnell is in Qatar for independent.ie and few would've had a day as eventful as Thursday.

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The Left Wing -- The Left Wing: Crucial period for provinces, Leinster's centre dilemma and is it the end for Eddie Jones? -- On the latest episode of The Left Wing, Will Slattery and Luke Fitzgerald are joined by Cian Tracey to assess where the Irish provinces stand heading into a crucial period of the season.

2 days ago

International Soccer -- 'We were the national team, but we had to train in the park' – former Ireland captain Linda Gorman on 'voiceless' days -- When 14 Ireland players stood defiant outside Liberty Hall in 2017, revelations about their poor working conditions shocked people across the country, but weren't a surprise to one former captain.

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Athletics - World Athletics study finds the majority of online abuse is targeted at female athletes - Female athletes were the main target of online abuse during this year's World Championships, a World Athletics study has found.

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Ladies Football - Premium - 'I have a lot of miles on the clock. It's the right time for me to move on' – Dublin stalwart Lyndsey Davey - When Dublin senior ladies football manager Mick Bohan sits down to finalise his squad for the 2023 season, one notable name will be missing from his list.

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Other Soccer -- Putting WNL on a professional footing is a 'watershed moment' for the game in Ireland -- League of Ireland director Mark Scanlon says the financial capability of all clubs in the Women's National League (WNL) to offer professional contracts to players from next season "will be a gradual process".

2 hours ago

Golf -- Portmarnock Golf Club elects first women members in 128-year history -- Portmarnock Golf Club has elected the first women members in the club's 128-year history.

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Soccer -- Former Finn Harps secretary Kathy Taaffe glad to leave FAI role due to 'upsetting' attitude towards women

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League of Ireland -- League of Ireland transfer round-up: Bohs lose Burt to Rovers but Akintunde and Williams in Dalymount door

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Soccer -- Borussia Dortmund tell Liverpool: Jude Bellingham will cost you

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World Cup -- Romelu Lukaku the villain after squandered chances as Croatia eliminate Belgium from World Cup

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United Rugby Championship -- Munster produce barnstorming fightback to claim impressive bonus point win in Edinburgh

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Rugby -- URC team news: Leinster hopeful on Johnny Sexton's fitness for Racing 92 as James Lowe returns to action

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Rugby -- Ronan O'Gara rules himself out of England job after opting to stay at La Rochelle

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International Rugby -- 'If that's the only thing he has to do in his life...' – Eddie Jones hits back at 'sad' Clive Woodward

1 day ago

Gaelic Football -- 'Our biggest problem was we were surrounded by rugby' – How earning community's trust let Kilmacud acorns grow into oaks

11 hours ago

Hurling -- 'It is so exciting to be a young Gaelic games player at the top level, club or county' - Chrissy McKaigue

2 hours ago

GAA - Mayo GAA make €1.1m profit for 2022 but county secretary cites 'missed opportunity' over Rainbow jersey numbers

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Gaelic Football -- Retiring referee Maurice Deegan on why Dublin and Donegal's 2011 arm-wrestle was his toughest game

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