Louth County Council is hosting a civic reception in recognition of the exceptional sporting achievements of Dundalk athletes Kate O’Connor and Eve McCrystal.The reception in honour the two women who ...

Sebastian Coe delivered the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, restructured and reinvigorated athletics' ailing governing body, took on Russian state doping cheats and on Thursday hopes to ...

Irish man Jack B Yeats' painting titled The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture category at the 1924 ...

“I’m definitely excited to be back in this uniform and be a part of this team.” Three Diamondbacks players opened the season ...

Boxing will feature in the Olympic Games in 2028. After the executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recommended that boxing be included in the Los Angeles schedule ...

“I wish to congratulate our athletes for their fantastic success at the Special Olympics World Winter Games. It was an historic games for Ireland with Caolan McConville becoming the first Irish ...

Conor McGregor will run for the Irish presidency in elections later this year, the controversial former fighter said on Thursday, as he announced his candidacy for the largely ceremonial role on ...

Lord Coe suffered a crushing defeat in his bid to become president of the International Olympic Committee, with Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry routing her six rivals in the first round of voting to ...

A new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been elected. Kirsty Coventry, the two-time Olympic gold medallist and Zimbabwe sports minister, has become the first woman and ...

In an address to the International Olympic Committee in Pylos, Greece, Casey Wasserman addressed concerns over visas and entry requirements to the U.S. for athletes and delegations taking part in ...

Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and became the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in world sports. "It is a ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, and the 10th president overall of the organization that was founded in 1894. IOC members ...