Peter Branigan

The 50th staging of the World Snooker Championship gets under way this morning, with Irish interest centring around Mark Allen. The Antrim man has already captured the UK Championship and the Masters, the two other big events on the World Snooker Tour, ov... See more

Six have become one over the last week in the qualifiers for the World Snooker Championships at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. That is to say, one Irish hopeful remains of the six who set out with ambitions to play four kilometres up the roa... See more

Limerick and Cork will do battle in Sunday's Allianz Hurling League final at the TUS Gaelic Grounds, with both having a point to prove. The narrative is that the Rebels, after losing the All-Ireland final last year in such difficult circumstances, will wa... See more

The Division 1 final of the Allianz Football League, the tier that often gets dismissed in spring as something of a phoney war. The eight sides who competed here, as well as a couple more from Division 2, will produce the Sam Maguire winner in July, so te... See more

We had to wait to see Shamrock Rovers begin their SSE Airtricity League defence, but for followers of the green and white it was worth the wait as they prepare to host Dundalk on Monday. They upped the ante in the second half to see off St Patrick's Athle... See more