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'A loyalist flute band marched me down the Shankill after I carried the Irish flag. Where was the bitterness?'
In Zaur we trust
'I felt like a fan, not a player. I almost recorded You'll Never Walk Alone from the bench'
'The other side of the bench was Modric, Bale and Harry Redknapp' - A historic moment for Irish football
'She didn't realise she was that talented' - how a Cork bullet became Ireland's fastest woman
'Even though Craig wasn't around, he was very much part of their journey to ensure they got there'
'Had an English person called me Jerry, I'd have told him to eff off - but Telfer was a Celt'
One of our own: Holohan relishing role as a hero in his home away from home
Sean O'Brien: 'My opinion hasn't changed, we could have won the '17 series 3-0'
From sleeping in a church to the top of the boxing world - with the help of a milk carton
The rise of Katie McCabe, Ireland's youngest-ever captain and world-class Arsenal star
A different mentality: Why Warren Gatland is still keeping the door open for Andy Farrell
Robbie Henshaw: the transformation from shy child into roaring Lion
'He's an absolute master of the craft' - Why Clare's long-serving boss shows no signs of stopping
The Dying Art of Defending (or are Gaelic football's forwards just getting better?)
'He was operating at a different level even back then' - the rise of a prodigious hurling talent
Hero, spy, soccer dealmaker: the remarkable story behind one of the GAA’s most famous names
'There was only enough battery for one shot, but luckily, that's all I needed' - Surviving cardiac arrest
The Unlikely Lads: the stories behind football's biggest ever shocks
The right man in the right place at the right time
Remembering Ireland's long pursuit of one of the Premier League's leading strikers
'It will be better for everyone. The South African teams will mean bigger, tougher games'
'Get him one-on-one with anybody and he would cause serious headaches'
A bullet in the post and being harassed on the way to training - Gaels living with the Troubles
Keeping the Faith: the Offaly hurler on the gambling addiction that cost €800k in 13 years and the road back
'The place just erupted': Maurice Fitz and one of the most iconic points in Gaelic football history
Hourihane out to dash the Premier League hopes of a club that still adores him
The team that came from nowhere to create a Midlands fairy tale
The tale of the 'team of 40-year-olds' from Cork who rattled Bayern Munich
'He's getting no-frills treatment there but he still manages to make it look effortless'
The story of Maureen Shea, 'The Real Million Dollar Baby'
'With all the doom and gloom, it lifted the whole of West Kerry. He is one of us and a Gold Cup winner'
The greatest era in Irish football – 'when we owned’ the Carabao Cup
'It's definitely time that kids are back on the field' - the long-awaited return of underage GAA
'It takes a specific type of person to give 15 years of their lives to run that risk'
Empty venues, held at gunpoint and caught in an 'unruly Roscommon mob' - Joe Frazier's nightmare music tour of Ireland
From DCU to Down Under: The team-mates, house-mates and friends dreaming of AFLW glory
'They don't do it for the glory of playing in an All-Ireland final...It's the most selfless job'
'One of the all-time greats in Cork' - saluting the career of a nine-time All-Ireland winner
12 years on from Sixways success Connacht still hampered by English issue