After some strong rides and close calls during the week, Lydia Boylan and Lydia Gurley won a medal for the Irish track cycling team at the 2017 UEC Track Elite European Championships in Berlin yesterday.
Lewis Hamilton took one look at Sebastian Vettel and decided, in the finest Texan tradition, that this town was not big enough for the both of them. No wonder he wore a stetson as he leapt atop the podium.
Building a profile outside the ring is the unenviable task now facing Ryan Burnett, Ireland's latest and perhaps least known world boxing champion, in the wake of his stunning achievement in unifying the WBA and IBF bantamweight straps at the tender age of 25.
Katie Taylor, who is preparing for the biggest moment of her professional boxing career in her challenge for the WBA World lightweight title in Cardiff next Saturday, is now Ireland's most admired sports personality, according to sponsorship advisers Onside.
It was all eyes on Gdansk, Poland on Saturday night for UFC Fight Night 118 as Liverpool’s Darren Till took on Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone in the main event and proceeded to turn the UFC’s welterweight division on its head.
Eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt wants to begin his professional football career in 2018 and has revealed “a lot” of clubs have reached out to sign him already.
For the first time this season, Lewis Hamilton's mother, the publicity-shy Carmen, has turned up to watch him race. So, too, has his brother Nicolas, famously a picture of emotion at his maiden world title celebrations in 2008.
What’s the price of an Olympic medal? That’s an easy question to answer. It’s about £4.1 million, if you crudely divide the £274 million handed out by UK Sport in the last Olympic cycle by the 67 medals Team GB won in Rio de Janeiro last year, their most successful Games in over a century.
Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn has said that he has plans for Katie Taylor to delay her Dublin homecoming until next year, in place of the originally planned November date.
Ronnie O'Sullivan was left bemused as a woman invaded the arena at the end of his English Open match against Zhang Young, with the security issue quickly turned into a jovial moment by the five-time world champion.
Boston Celtics forward Gordon Hayward suffered a horrific ankle injury just six minutes into his debut with the team as they lost 102-99 to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Sunday Independent journalist Paul Kimmage has said that Sunday Times sportswriter David Walsh and Cork hurling legend Donal Og Cusack made 'very bad mistakes' in writing character references for paedophile Tom Humphries.
Kubrat Pulev has pulled out of his October 28 fight against Anthony Joshua because of a shoulder injury, promoter Eddie Hearn has announced. Carlos Takam will fight the Briton instead.
