So there it goes, the PDC Home Tour. A 43-night jamboree that crowned Nathan Aspinall as its champion on Friday night, featured a nine-darter from a kitchen just outside Birmingham, internet struggles on the Isle of Wight and a national appeal for a better Wi-Fi connection for Gary Anderson. Lockdown has confined most people to […]

There is a chance that the coronavirus pandemic could prematurely end the longest current inter-county football career, but after first kicking a ball for Derry aged 13, 22 years later Antrim’s Emma Kelly is still reluctant to walk away from the game she loves. Belfast-based Kelly works as Sport4Development facilitator with Community Sports Network, but […]

John Horan says the GAA are still holding out hope of crowds to attend championship games in 2020. The association unveiled their return-to-play roadmap on Friday evening, with the All-Ireland Championship set to begin in October. “It would be our hope to have attendances at games,” said the GAA president. “It may mean we would […]

Nathan Aspinall produced a perfect evening’s work to win all three matches, including a thriller against Gary Anderson, to earn the PDC Home Tour title. The UK Open and US Darts Masters champion beat Jelle Klaasen, Jonny Clayton and Anderson to record three wins from three on the final night of the PDC’s innovative Home […]

The GAA, along with the LGFA and Camogie Association, has unveiled its roadmap for a return to action, following the postponement of all activity due to the coronavirus pandemic. This was put together by the Covid-19 Advisory Group, which has representation from various stakeholders within Gaelic games. As they build up to a full return of […]

Tamsin Greenway looks at how the Vitality Netball Superleague can use a pause in play to continue to enhance its product and reveals her wishes for the competition. The lockdown period has given people an opportunity to do the things they’ve not had the time to do before. From going through old photographs and cupboards, […]

Four of the world’s top 16 including Rob Cross and Nathan Aspinall will battle it out on the PDC Home Tour on Thursday evening for the right to join Gary Anderson and Jelle Klaasen in Friday’s Championship Group. Premier League stars Cross and Aspinall will take on Jonny Clayton and Joe Cullen – ranked 15th […]

“Has it changed me? No, to be honest. It was one moment,” muses Eoin Murchan. “It was a goal, but it alone wouldn’t have won a game.” Nine months on from his crucial goal in the All-Ireland final replay against Kerry, the Na Fianna man doesn’t feel any different. But there’s no doubting he’s viewed […]

We begin our ‘virtual Railway Cup’ series with Ulster. Each week, we look at a different province, pondering which players would make the starting line-up if the Railway Cup was taking place in 2020. Does the Railway Cup have a future? Goalkeeper: Rory Beggan It was a tight call between Beggan, Shaun Patton and Niall […]

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has said it will hear banned track coach Alberto Salazar’s appeal to overturn his four-year doping suspension in November. American Salazar, who coached some of the world’s top distance runners including British Olympic and world champion Mo Farah, was banned by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in October […]