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# Editor's picks

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Could empty stadiums mean we're in for hurling's highest scoring season of all-time?
25 Oct 2020
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'It's always a pinch me moment' - fronting the TV coverage through a GAA season like no other
24 Oct 2020
38.8k
2
'I was a player who served bread and butter when people wanted cake'
24 Oct 2020
49.5k
18
What is being done to stop another George Gibney in Irish sport?
18 Oct 2020
34.5k
6
An ode to the lifeblood of the nation's sporting anatomy
17 Oct 2020
21.0k
4
‘Exeter are English rugby’s version of Munster and Connacht rolled into one’
17 Oct 2020
25.8k
20
'It's been kind of fairytale stuff' - The Antrim doctor part of a major Galway football breakthrough
Updated 10 Oct 2020
36.2k
5
Sport without fans is soulless - they are the lifeblood of the game
10 Oct 2020
27.8k
18
Playing Spain in Ireland's first-ever play-off, the '6 in a row' team and facing Germany's greatest striker
8 Oct 2020
26.4k
4
'In the heat of the match he could be frightening... He was a colossus'
26 Sep 2020
54.5k
33
‘We were jealous watching Rovers against Zlatan and want our own big day out’
26 Sep 2020
7.3k
1
50 years on and still central to Cork club hurling - 'There's a brilliant attitude among these fellas'
26 Sep 2020
24.5k
2
How Leinster were left with an insurmountable hill to climb against Saracens
20 Sep 2020
10.3k
33
The journey Irish hero Sam Bennett took to become king of the road
20 Sep 2020
46.9k
36
'It's crazy that just five years ago, he won an U17s medal in Ballyhaunis!'
19 Sep 2020
46.9k
26
Leinster have the classier touches in contrast to blunt, predictable Munster
5 Sep 2020
12.4k
40
How a financial crisis ended up being the best thing that ever happened to Bohs
5 Sep 2020
31.4k
33
McCarthy's Sky commentary a comical counterpoint as Kenny's Ireland show signs of real change
3 Sep 2020
26.4k
14
'There are certainly other people in the world way worse off than myself'
3 Sep 2020
23.9k
0
Time for the talking to stop as Stephen Kenny and Ireland finally begin a new era in Sofia
Updated 3 Sep 2020
25.2k
35
'He couldn't get first-team football at Bohs' - new Spurs signing Matt Doherty's remarkable rise
31 Aug 2020
37.9k
26
'You're almost taking a punch on the chin for the good of the game'
30 Aug 2020
21.1k
14
From Brighton soccer to Ballygunner hurling - 'I still don't see a ceiling with him'
30 Aug 2020
45.6k
2
The film that will make you fall in love with sport again
30 Aug 2020
8.7k
1
'You could never repay your parents. I'm just so grateful for them, I mean that from the bottom of my heart'
Updated 29 Aug 2020
58.2k
9
The Irish Liverpool fan who grew up to captain them
23 Aug 2020
25.5k
10
'It's been a long time coming' - Passion burns on and off the field as Bohs braced for WNL bow
8 Aug 2020
5.5k
0
How a coca-cola bottle filled with coins helped Brian Kerr reach the top
6 Aug 2020
25.1k
5
Every young player needs a mentor...even if they put the fear of God into them
Updated 3 Aug 2020
31.2k
2
Forging a new identity when the Premier League dream begins to fade
3 Aug 2020
42.3k
9
The Irishman at the heart of the greatest ever FA Cup final
1 Aug 2020
40.3k
23
How a GAA broadcasting legend found himself commentating on JFK's funeral
19 Jul 2020
31.0k
7
‘I put the phone down three times’: Crazy Gang at Wimbledon, Big Jack and Phelan's Ireland break
Updated 17 Jul 2020
50.7k
12
Kieran O’Connor: A club hero, a county star, a tragic loss
16 Jul 2020
23.1k
4
'We didn't really perceive him as this famous person, he was just big Jack to us'
13 Jul 2020
39.5k
6
'Sorry Mr Marley, you can't play here' - Playing football with a music icon before a famous gig in Dublin
11 Jul 2020
36.5k
24
The Bishopstown Blade: John Egan’s journey from GAA roots to the Premier League
Updated 10 Jul 2020
21.4k
6
'I was struggling to walk, hoping the pain would go away - it didn't'
5 Jul 2020
40.4k
2
The story behind the scandal that shook US sport
5 Jul 2020
51.2k
4
Those who choose to cover their eyes will have no excuse when they're on the wrong side of boxing history
4 Jul 2020
48.5k
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