"Opportunities for sub goalies are so rare" says Eimer Ryan as she talks about the thankless job of the back-up shotstopper.

Just as punditry isn’t a replacement for playing, charisma on the pitch is different to charisma onscreen.

It’s often the most vulnerable parts of ourselves that allow us to truly connect and find recognition in others.

There is a bit of sadness, as there always is when a chapter closes, when something good comes to its end.

Why do I come over all tribal when I watch the girls in green? Why am I suddenly bursting with national pride over a sport I’ve never played and don’t intimately understand?

Being inevitably filmed, named, and shamed on social media just makes players feel defensive and victimised rather than reflect on their own actions. Deterrents aren’t always the answer

The progress of women’s sports generally in recent years has been rapid, but this World Cup felt especially seismic.

Continuing to enforce the handpass rule to the letter of the law is lose-lose.

Cork’s approach is simple but effective: a running game in which every player in possession has multiple supporting teammates going with her

If there’s a monument to the progress of women’s team sports in Ireland, the national soccer team have added more than a few stones to the pile.