Dual Melbourne Cup-winning trainer Dermot Weld will return this year to try to win the great race for a third time. The master Irish trainer has four horses in contention this year, with Rite Of Passage being tipped to come out in front. He also intends to bring back Profound Beauty, who ran fifth behind [...]

Eoin Morgan is proud of a great achievement after recording his maiden Test hundred at only the third attempt.
The 23-year-old Irishman shared a record unbroken double-century stand with Paul Collingwood, reaching stumps on 125 to his partner’s 81 out of 331 for four on day one of the four-match npower series at Trent [...]

Rory McIlroy’s dream of becoming the youngest Open champion for 117 years turned into a nightmare with an 80 at windswept St Andrews on Friday.
However, fellow Ulstermen Graeme McDowell and Darren Clarke are in contention at five and four under respectively.
Shane Lowry and Colm Moriarty also made the cut but Padraig Harrington will have the [...]

Ireland captain William Porterfield was proud to have restored respect to his team after they bowed out of the ICC World Twenty20 following a no-result in their Group D shoot-out with England earlier this week.
Ireland had restricted tournament big guns England to just 120 for eight at the Guyana National Stadium before rain in Georgetown [...]

The Irish women’s bobsleigh team have won their personal dual with Australia in Vancouver, claiming a highly creditable 17th place finish at the Winter Olympic event.
Pilot Aoife Hoey and brake woman Claire Bergin  finished two places ahead of main rivals Australia whose late entry almost cost the Irish due their place at the Games.
Hoey and [...]

A ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) yesterday resolved an ongoing dispute between Ireland and Australia over entry to the women’s bobsleigh event at the upcoming Winter Olympics.
A row developed last week when the Australian team discovered they would not be eligible to compete at the games, at which point they protested [...]

Irish tennis players Conor Niland and Louk Sorensen have each positioned themselves one win away from the first round proper of the Australian Open men’s singles in Melbourne after both enjoyed victories in their respective second-round qualifying matches today.
Niland, who is ranked No 288 in the world, added to his first round victory with a [...]

Ireland’s Gary Murphy will be fighting for his European tour card in Melbourne this weekend.
The arrival of Tiger Woods into the Victorian capital has led to an unprecedented media frenzy but Murphy will have 2010 on his mind.
The JBWere Masters – formerly the Australia Masters – was only put on the European Tour schedule last [...]

New York-based Derry fighter John Duddy has bounced back from his shock first professional defeat last April by claiming a comfortable victory over Michi Munoz at Madison Square Garden.
The bout was Duddy’s first appearance in the ring since his first career defeat to Billy Lyell on April 24.
Duddy was slow to start and was caught [...]

JOHN McCririck believes Irish champion racehorse Sea The Stars has raised the benchmark against which future equine heroes will now be judged.
The television pundit compared the impact John Oxx’s superstar has had on racing as similar to that which Usain Bolt has had on athletics.
Sea The Stars joined the equine greats by becoming the first [...]