This weekend is a big one for Basketball with the National Cup semi-finals taking place.

There's plenty of Dublin interest. In the Women's Division One National Cup this evening iSecure Swords Thunder play Oblate Dynamos.

In the semis of the Pat Duffy National Cup there's an all Dublin affair between Griffith College Éanna and Killester while in the Paudie O'Connor National Cup Killester take on Utility Trust St Pauls.

Our reporter Orla Keeling has been out talking to some of the teams involved while also previewing the Pat Duffy National Cup semi-finals with UCD Marian Superleague assistant coach, Adam Drummond.

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The Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the Year, gets underway this weekend in Melbourne.

Can anyone stop steely Jannick Sinner, the world number one?

How will Novak Djokovic get along with his new coach, Andy Murray?

Who might challenge Aryna Sabalenka who is going for three in a row?

Stephen Higgins from crosscourtview.com joins Hazel Nolan to look at the favourites, the challengers and the players under the radar.

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2024 is a year that will live long in the memory for Sharlene Mawdsley, but she's now parked that and has her sights set firmly on her goals for 2025.

The Tipperary woman has changed her training set up, and talks to Hazel Nolan about her decision to throw her lot in with UK based Tony Lester.

She reveals how her self-belief is growing and how she's no longer scared going into races.

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Former New Zealand captain, Kieran Read, has been getting up close and personal with Gaelic Games.

The Toughest Traits is a new content series from AIB, proud sponsors of the AIB GAA, Camogie and Ladies Football All-Ireland Club Championships.

The series follows the double World Cup winner as he tours Ireland, learning the true meaning of what it takes to be an elite Gaelic Games player.

Kieran has been chatting to our reporter, Jonathan Byrne, about the whole process, what he learned and what impressed him the most.

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Paul Casey and Derek Murray will lead the Dublin senior women's football team for 2025.

They were ratified as joint managers after Mick Bohan stepped down late last year.

With the league campaign starting in just three weeks time, they new men in charge have been chatting to Hazel Nolan about what success looks like for them and the team in 2025, what they see as they biggest challenges ahead and how they want to make their mark.

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Three-time Olympian Shane Ryan rolled back the years last weekend with one of the swims of his life.

He clinched bronze in the 50m backstroke at the World Shortcourse Championships in Budapest, and in doing so he also broke his own Irish record, which had stood for five years.

Shane talks us through the race, his switch up in his approach to training and his aspirations to become a four-time Olympian.

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Dubliner Orla Comerford won a bronze medal at the Paralympic Games in Paris this summer.

She made good on all her potential in the 100m T13 final.

Orla reflects on her year with Luke Delaney, about the sacrifices that got her on the podium and how she's settling into the responsibility and privilege of being a role model.

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