Ian O'Riordan

1 day ago | irishtimes.com | Ian O'Riordan

The last thing Cathal Mannion needs any reminding about is what happened the last time Galway played Kilkenny in a Leinster hurling final. Which is perfectly understandable, because if Galway are to win this Sunday, then Mannion knows it won’t be over even as the fat lady is clearing her throat. Conceding an injury-time goal, with no hope of recovery, can happen to any team. Not just against Kilkenny.

6 days ago | irishtimes.com | Ian O'Riordan

Every year since 1916, the Irish Schools Track and Field Championships have produced some standout results, oftentimes markers of international success, and Seán Doggett was among those to grab the spotlight in Tullamore this weekend. The two-day event, where over 1,000 athletes qualified from 392 schools across the country, saw championship records broken in several events, none more impressively so than Doggett’s 47.22 seconds in the senior boys 400 metres.

6 days ago | irishtimes.com | Ian O'Riordan

Good afternoon, and welcome to The Irish Times live GAA blog for what is another big afternoon of football in the All-Ireland series, the headline second round game being the meeting of 2024 champions Armagh and 2023 champions Dublin in Croke Park at 4pm. There are four All-Ireland series games in all, Derry also taking on Galway in Celtic Park at 2pm, a critical game for both teams given they lost their opening game.

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Ian O'Riordan

As with most seismic episodes in life, I can recall exactly where we were and what we were doing. As international students in the Ivy League, there was no fear of deportation to rattle our worlds in September 1993. But the news that a woman on the other side of the world had just run eight minutes and six seconds for 3,000 metres was shocking.

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Ian O'Riordan

Winning a European gold medal can do wonders for confidence and Sarah Healy has wasted no time in demonstrating that. In her first outdoor race of the summer, Healy improved her 3,000m best by almost four seconds when finishing an impressive third in the Diamond League in Rabat, Morocco, on Sunday night. The 24-year-old’s time of 8:27.02 bettered the 8:30.79 she ran indoors in New York in February, a few weeks before she won the European Indoor title in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.