IRFU performance director David Nucifora says the Emerging Ireland tour was a big success.

The Waterford native had a third-place finish at the Sony Open in Hawaii.

Sport made for nine of the 12 most viewed programmes on Irish television last year, and almost half of the top 50 overall.

Lowry was speaking on RTÉ Sport about his ascent into the world’s top 50.

Most of us can remember that Paul McGrath hit the post with a header but can you recall Aldo’s fresh air follow-up?

Franz Beckenbauer lifted the cup for West Germany in 1972 but the real winner that day was fashion.

If you thought Chelsea’s rearguard action against Barcelona was a thing of horrendous beauty, you would have loved Maldini and the slick Italian defence crew.

From the Allianz Arena to the Yoyogi National Gymnasium, we give you 48 of the world’s best sporting structures and two that we chose for sentimental reasons.