Picture it: you’re astride a late model BMW motorcycle feeling the wind play about your face as you slice through the fragrant Irish countryside. The lush, verdant landscape opens before you, stretching on for miles in every direction. A patchwork of rolling hills, sparkling seas, and emerald pastures meets an expansive sky. A feeling of [...]

Brought the family to a motorcycle race lately? They might just enjoy it. Our guest blogger Barbara Cullen recalls the thrills, spills and bags of chips of her childhood spent at the sideline of the North West 200. The smell of the grease, the roar of the engines, the sudden thunder as they whip past [...]

Horse racing in Ireland is what you would call ‘edge-of-the-seat’ entertainment. So, with the Punchestown Horse Racing Festival just around the corner, we asked sports fanatic Paul Rowley to take us through a day at the races and see if he could break even… A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for [...]

A new generation of endurance races has been breeding like rabbits ­– mucky, hyper rabbits – in Ireland in the last few years. Trail running, cycling, swimming and kayaking have cosied up with grassy fields, mountain passes, heaving bog and spectacular views, to produce the young and spritely adventure race. The circuits can range from [...]

With days getting longer and the sun making a welcome return, our minds have turned to sport. Gaelic Games to be precise. So to get the lowdown, we asked sports journalist and all-round mega-fan Paul Rowley to tell us exactly what he knows about these great games… We’ve heard hurling can look like a cross [...]

Picture it: Thirty men, each built like a Spartan warrior, puffed up with adrenalin and national pride, stalking their side of the pitch and eyeing each other cautiously over a painted white line in the grass. This is a modern pitched battle where the fifteen men clothed in deep green lock horns with their challengers for 80 tense and torrid [...]