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The latest Sport news from the team at The @IrishTimes.
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Is Pep Guardiola a bald fraud? Statistics reveal some bald truths
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Sonia O’Sullivan: Transgender athletes cannot be allowed in women’s sport via @IrishTimesSport.
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Congratulations to The Irish Times Sport Ireland Sportswoman of the Year 2021 Rachael Blackmore!
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Congratulations to @Katie_McCabe11 who is our overall 2023 Sportswoman of the Year! #ITSportswoman #WomenInSportIRE
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The English army marched on Wembley in a riot of dangling nutsacks and flares stuck up arses, pausing only to scale tall objects and snort handfuls of white powder to the cheers of their comrades. via @IrishTimesSport.
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Ken Early: Has it ever occurred to Robbie Keane to try to do what Duff is doing? It might be nice if more clubs believed in Irish coaches, but Duff is showing what’s possible when coaches believe in Irish clubs.
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Katie McCabe named Irish Times/Sport Ireland Sportswoman of the Year for 2023
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Ken Early: City’s domination has been bought – and they’re paying the price via @IrishTimesSport.
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Rory McIlroy: "All my amateur career I played for Ireland. I was very proud to play for Ireland. So why would I do anything differently as a professional? A gold medal in Paris would be one of my proudest moments".
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JP McManus: “I didn’t leave the country in order to avoid paying a tax, or to avoid paying a future tax. I paid my taxes and I set up a business abroad. If it didn’t go so well I’d be considered an emigrant; if it goes well I’m considered an exile"
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Rhasidat Adeleke breaks Irish 100m record in perfect Paris tune-up
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IRELAND HAVE BEATEN THE ALL BLACKS ON HOME SOIL FOR THE FIRST EVER TIME!. IRELAND 16 NEW ZEALAND 9. #IREvNZL.
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Rowing: O’Donovan brothers take gold in World Cup Regatta
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Ireland's Ayeisha McFerran has been named goalkeeper of the tournament at the Hockey World Cup -
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Gold medal for 18-year-old Irish sprinter Gina Akpe-Moses
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Rhasidat Adeleke echoes call for more ‘lifelong consequences’ for athletes that are implicated in doping
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Rhys McClenaghan makes history with gold for Ireland at the World Gymnastics Championships
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Darragh Ó Sé: The worst thing about Sunday’s melee is politicians making hay out of it
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Dan Sheehan set to captain Ireland for Six Nations clash against Wales
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Rhasidat Adeleke takes bronze in 400m Diamond League final after Salwa Eid Naser disqualified
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Women’s sport exists in order to allow women compete on a level playing field against other biological born women; it is not a category one can transfer into. via @IrishTimesSport.
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Kevin McStay: Dublin may be a bridge too far but Mayo’s spirit will never be broken via @IrishTimesSport.
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Bielsa emerges from ‘espionage’ furore as a figure of great humility and integrity via @IrishTimesSport.
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Katie Taylor retains world titles after beating Delfine Persoon in rematch via @IrishTimesSport.
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Graham Shaw: ‘It’s incredible for the whole sport of hockey in Ireland’
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Rhys McClenaghan makes history by taking bronze at World Championships via @IrishTimesSport.
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Bundee Aki named Ireland men’s players’ player of the year
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Solo rower Damian Browne has completed Atlantic Challenge race
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Ireland's Thomas Barr wins the bronze medal in the 400m hurdles at the European Championships in Berlin.
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Katie Taylor successfully defends her WBA lightweight title in a unanimous decision after being taken all the way by Jessica McCaskill in a tough 10-round fight at York Hall. Full report to follow.
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The final baton exchange was so sweetly executed that the gold medal was always bang on, Sharlene Mawdsley making sure with another stunning anchor leg to make it a magnificent winning night, reports @ianoriordan, as Ireland won 4x400m mixed relay.
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South African prop Steven Kitshoff to join Ulster on three-year deal
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In bid to shoot the messenger, Benfica take aim at bloggers
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Stuart Lancaster set to leave Leinster to take up Racing 92 post from next season
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Ireland embrace the preposterous brilliance of a World Cup final
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Ireland’s World Cup clash with Canada most-viewed women’s sports event in Irish television history
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Shane Lowry has won the BMW PGA Championship. Rory McIlroy was inches away from forcing a playoff with his put on the 18th. via @IrishTimesSport.
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BREAKING: Ireland win rain-affected clash against England in T20 World Cup (via @IrishTimesSport)
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Ken Early: Many Irish fans may be starting to care more about the League of Ireland than the national team
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Solheim Cup: Leona Maguire confirms status as the best rookie of all time via @IrishTimesSport.
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Big news for @munsterrugby: South Africa’s Damian de Allende to join Munster next season, reports @gerrythornley via @IrishTimesSport.
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Ireland make history as they reach World Cup quarter-finals
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Jim McGuinness: Pat Shovelin left a great legacy in Donegal
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Ian O'Riordan (@ianoriordan): Not since the days of Sonia O'Sullivan have we seen an Irish woman attack a middle distance race like this. Ciara Mageean winning her second European Championship medal over 1,500 metres (via @IrishTimesSport)
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Who are the Irish women’s hockey squad who have just qualified for the Tokyo Olympics? (via @IrishTimesSport)
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Jackie Tyrrell: Casey’s defensive masterclass key to Limerick’s triumph
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Rhasidat Adeleke has become the first Irish woman to make an outdoor NCAA sprint individual final
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Sensational Rhasidat Adeleke leads Irish relay teams to Paris Olympics on the double
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Adeleke takes gold for Ireland in European 200 metres
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Leo Cullen to remain as head coach at Leinster for another two years
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Ireland’s Euro 2025 women’s qualifier set to be moved to the Aviva Stadium
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Ken Early: Like Napoleon, Mourinho is the outsider always trying to prove himself via @IrishTimesSport.
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Life after death: Remembering Galway's Niall Donohue
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Sanita Puspure named Irish Times/Sport Ireland Sportswoman for October via @IrishTimesSport.
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“To run this time here today, in Dublin, makes me so proud,” Hiko Tonosa said. “Because this country saved my life”
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Ireland’s World Cup clash against Canada on Wednesday was the most-viewed women’s sports event in Irish television history, RTÉ has announced, with an average of 550,600 people tuning in
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Irish women’s four crew win European rowing silver medal
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Ian O'Riordan (@ianoriordan): We ended up in awe of the 20-year old Irish sprinter Israel Olatunde after the lights dimmed and he mixed it with the eight fastest men in Europe — and left as the fastest Irish man that has ever lived (via @IrishTimesSport)
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Tom O’Riordan, an infectious evangelist for athletics, dies aged 85
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Darragh Ó Sé: Tyrone want sympathy – Don’t make me laugh
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Sam Bennett claims brilliant stage win to take back green jersey - Carrick-on-Suir cyclist just the sixth Irish rider to win a stage in the Tour de France.
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Sharlene Mawdsley on finishing fourth: “When you’re out in that last leg, you do feel it’s your fault. I’m pretty devastated, I just wish I could have done it for the girls. It’s heartbreaking.”.
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"He left so much behind him. A family, a girlfriend, a devoted circle of friends. Team-mates and classmates. A teaching career that he looked born to excel at. A football career that could have been anything." (Via @IrishTimesSport ).
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Ireland’s Rhasidat Adeleke breaks Irish record as she finishes fifth in European 400m final (via @IrishTimesSport)
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Ireland's hockey magic sees an impossible fairytale unfold
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Women’s Hockey World Cup: Pen pics of Ireland’s Green Machine
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Congratulations to our #ITSportswoman January 2023 winner, @rhasidatadeleke, two weeks after setting a new Irish indoor 200m record the Tallaght native smashed Karen Shinkins’ 21-year old Irish indoor 400m record. #WomenInSportIRE
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The Irish Times/Sport Ireland sportswoman award for June: Sarah Healy
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Ireland’s Rhys McClenaghan takes pommel horse gold at Europeans
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Sideline Cut: The outrageous crime of ‘Being Aidan O’Shea’
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He can’t help stealing a long glance at the ball as it goes over, the Cusack Stand in paroxysms behind him. Who couldn’t love this game? Who couldn’t love this player?. via @IrishTimesSport.
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Ireland’s men will be heading to Paris after a 4-3 win over South Korea in a breathless third place play-off in Valencia on Sunday sealed Olympic qualification. Goals from Matthew Nelson, Ben Johnson, John McKee and Shane O’Donoghue gave them victory.
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Darragh Ó Sé: If Tyrone put as much into football as the dark arts, they'd be some team via @IrishTimesSport.
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Ireland’s history girls see off Spain to reach World Cup final
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State of Play: When love of the Arsenal hits fever pitch for devoted Irish man
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Cork’s Phil Healy breaks Irish women’s 100m record in Santry
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Hockey coach Graham Shaw named Philips Manager of the Month
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