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# Editor's picks

All time
'Who asks to leave Manchester United? I look back and wonder if I was insane. Did I go mad?'
'It was put out as an accolade at funerals that a Laochra Gael had been done on them'
‘I never sat with my Da and just talked, not really. But I learned more about him drinking together for three hours than ever before’
'We were seven Irishmen taking on the world - Brady was our Platini’
Unknown in Ireland, celebrated in France - the forgotten Dubliner who won titles and fought Nazis
Meet the football agent who has a heart and doesn't care about money... but is still ruthless
'Here's three girls that buried their father and they arrive to training that evening' - the rise of Slaughtneil
'You have to treat it like a business. You're a commodity. There's no favours out there'
A little help from an Irish ex-footballer has a big impact on bullied youngster
Byrne screamer seals huge Rovers win over Dundalk in Tallaght thriller
'Your future depends on the decisions you make every day' - How The Ringer became a $200 million success
'A Tipp man started flying Sunday Game tapes to New York and showing them in his bar. That was progress'
Analysis: England's clever kicking pressures Sexton and Stockdale into errors
TV Wrap - Bono gets it in the neck as Ireland's problems are exposed in Twickenham horror show
Jimmy Conway, the dementia epidemic and how football failed an entire generation of players
Garrett Fitzgerald - a good man who leaves a lasting legacy at Munster
'Jack is after changing it big time for everyone in Waterford'
'I feel I can enjoy my football a lot more over there' - babies, bereavement and a new chapter in America
'I can’t set up a maul in an office. Rugby was my release'
A league of our own: why Irish football can't afford to neglect the domestic game
Analysis: "Murray, give it to me, Murray!" - Ireland show try-scoring edge
'Wrongly there was an assumption we were spending massive money on wages and should be walking the league'
The Shed is dead. Long live The Shed.
Too nice, too soft and too easy-going…. How Enda Stevens changed it all to change his life
'I had Joshua when I was 22. For a lot of girls, that could have ended their sporting career'
'I remember saying - I don’t know if I can do this - it felt like hitting the wall'
TV Wrap - Rebuilding of Schmidt's reputation begins as Ireland stutter against Scotland
Analysis: What did we see from Ireland's attack as the Andy Farrell era began?
Hollywood, the NFL and OJ - the remarkable tale of the Dublin kid who lived the American dream
'I played in the third game I saw' - The incredible life of the last Irish-born player in the NFL
'I don't think anything compares to it' - the former Tipp captain who's now a world bodybuilding champion
‘I've no problem with someone not liking a commentator. But don’t say I don’t like that woman commentator’
'Well done, young man! That stuff about your granny, not so much.' A farewell to the face of RTE's racing coverage
'It's a great memory to treasure' - The Dubliner who once went toe-to-toe with Kobe Bryant
'The senior guys, they didn't like me, they didn't want an Irish guy coming over'
Family first: Taking advice from ex-AFL star brother, and having a 'role model' and midfield partner sister
The making of Andy Farrell
'People say now will you miss it? I don't think I will because I'm satisfied' - life after Tipp hurling
'United haven't been this bad for 30 years': why 1990 remains so relevant ahead of Anfield clash
'They said we weren't good enough as a nation - we proved them wrong'