Associate nations: the tournament run that changed one country’s sport overnight
From a car-park net session to a sold-out stadium in ten days.
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Inside the qualifying scramble: the athletes racing a calendar as much as each other
Four years of training, one window to qualify, and a rulebook few people ever read.
Fourteen and fearless: the girls’ boxing club at the end of the bus route
Two hours a night, one coach and a waiting list.
The athletes changing what sport looks like
From refugee camps to Olympic qualifiers, a generation of athletes is rewriting who gets seen, selected and celebrated. Our editors on the…
Meet the teenage fast bowlers turning heads in Ireland’s academy
Five names to watch and the coaches behind them.
What a swimming pool taught a community about belonging
Lessons, lifeguards and a shared changing room.
Inside the journey of Ireland’s next generation of athletes
Six teenagers, one track and the hours nobody sees.
Marathon debut, four years after fleeing home: the runner who rebuilt her career after displacement
She trained on a borrowed track before dawn. This month she runs 42 kilometres in front of a global audience.
Blind football’s big moment: a sport built on trust, sound and nerve
Inside a game where silence is a rule and hearing is everything.
The Sunday league that became a lifeline: inside Ireland’s most diverse football club
Twelve nationalities, one dressing room and a waiting list of 200 players.