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# EXTRACT

All time
'I would go and spar sometimes with the worst headaches but I was too proud'
'I stopped worrying about rugby after Axel died'
GAA stars reveal tips that helped them make it to the top
'I saw 89 missed calls...You’ll be named today as failing a drugs test'
'I was never afraid to go abroad, thinking it was going to damage my Ireland chances'
'The scribes wrote about the arrival of the complete footballer, a boy capable of excellence in all positions'
Extract: 'Thanks to climate change, Ireland's coastlines won't be in the same place'
Extract: 'Well', I said to her - 'I have something to ask you but I don’t want to upset you'
Martin Hayes: 'One night my father said - a stór, maybe the fiddle isn't the instrument for you'
Larry Donnelly: When politics is the business of an Irish-American political family
Singer Loah: 'In college I found my calling - with a bit of help from Radiohead'
'Visitors for the fight had spent $92 million... What one tourism official compared to four New Year’s Eves'
'Bonavena’s insult had to be translated, but when Ali heard it he became incensed'
'I assured him there’d be no head shots if he promised to fall down at my signal'
The Irish Read: A short story from Adrian Duncan's new collection
Sophie White: 'This illness is a thief and a liar. It ransacks my happy memories'
Extract: Roisin Kiberd on how Facebook helped change the internet - and our lives
'He had turned down Aston Villa but decided Cardiff was the correct choice'
'Ireland’s leading goalscorer and all-time caps holder had been spectacularly snubbed'
'All I had to do was imagine my father’s face when confronted by his daughter’s puffed up, battered eye socket'
'This small, beautiful woman and her f***ed-up, broken life'
'Debt piled up. I was a 50-year-old single parent bringing up a teenage girl'
'It should be a moment that I’ll treasure for the rest of my life... I wish I could be happy but I can’t'
'We had just been in close contact with the Atlético players and probably 60 others'
'Joe really does get a bit emotional and it doesn’t feel right. Like seeing your dad cry'
'Kenny Dalglish was a legend of the game... He was there to support us and Seán in any way he could'
Billy Hutchinson: 'It was totally counterproductive and portrayed loyalism as backward and nasty in the eyes of the world'
Extract: Manchán Magan on the the controversy around the Irish word leprechaun
A Page From My Life: Three stories of love, parenthood and revelation from Irish people
Extract: Moving to the country helped me discover the secrets of the natural world
Paddy Doyle: An extract from The God Squad, by the late author
Extract: 'To the British government, the Famine was a threat to public order'
'In the heat of the match he could be frightening... He was a colossus'
Extract: 'Millennials, they call them. Oh, I’m so offended at this, that and the other thing'
'I walked out of the house to where my van was parked. I put three massive dents in the side of it'
'I was 20 years old... I thought my talent was all I needed to get by'
'It is an Irish success story, one of the greatest to come out of Ireland since the foundation of the State'
The rise of the 'water carrier'
'He used to repeat that footballers should only have sex once a week’
'Hamilton became a symbol of a post-racial Britain without ever being fully embraced by the British public'