Valentine’s Day sucks serious ass. There, I said it. Some people get stressed out by it, others lose their minds in anger. Well ladies, there is a very healthy way to express this anger – plan a trip to see a heroine do what she does best next weekend.

Get thee to The National Stadium in Dublin and watch Katie Taylor kick some butt. Ok, no kicking…but she’ll be doing her stuff in the Women’s National Championships.

Any rugby lovers out there will be well aware that the 6 Nations is almost upon us once more. What some of you may not know, however, is that the Women’s competition begins this very month, on Feb 5th.
The women’s game is regarded highly within the sport, as well it should be. So here is a little idea of who are the favourites and will find it tough going.

Homophobia in football is a subject that gets right between my teeth. I love the game with a passion but just can’t understand why we don’t have a Gareth Thomas or a Martina Navratilova of our own. It makes no sense to me. Recently an Italian footballer posed in a gay mag. And for that, he looks like he is in trouble with his club, Napoli.

After a very illustrious career Amelie Mauresmo has announced her retirement from Tennis. She won two grand slams as well as the Fed Cup with France and has flown the flag for women, and indeed lesbians, in sport with great distinction for many years.
We wish her all the best.

Ireland are in Paris tonight hoping to overturn a one goal deficit to book their place in next summer’s FIFA World Cup 2010 being hosted by South Africa. It’s a cliched “must-win” game for the Irish who have at least 90 minutes to make an impression on the sophisticated French side. All TVs will be tuned to RTE 2 tonight!

So, much to the hilarity of my friends, I’ve recently taken up a hobb-ay. I’ve started rowing. Yep, just like Ratty, the water vole, in Wind in the Willows. Er.. or something. And it’s not just any rowing: it’s gay rowing.

Unfortunately, due to the negligence and ignorance of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the issue of gender has never been properly addressed. As mirrored in sociey; why consider gender, sure we’ve all got either pink or blue booties? Only sometimes we have both/none.

The sporting theme continues apace, with this year’s OutGames taking place from this weekend in Copenhagen. And Ireland’s very own LGBT competitors will be taking place, with several athletes representing OutInIreland. We’ll be keeping an eye on our athletes’ performance, and hope to have a review of how they fared when they return.

This year’s GAA Championships looks like it’s going to be a cracker. Over the past five years, Ladies Football has been all about Cork. This year they are vying for a record fifth consecutive title and, after winning the Division 1 National League title in May, it looks more than likely that they’ll be lifting the Brendan Martin Cup in September.

Is that strawberries I see in the shops? Why, it must be time for Wimbledon; that ever-so English sporting event, where the local gentry are none too pleased with all of the grunting that the women get up to. And that’s just on the court. It’s just not cricket. Thank god.

The road to the Solheim Cup continues in Portmarnock, this weekend, at the Ladies Irish Open and the competition is hotter than hot. Not alone are the best golfers in Ireland going to be there, but the top 40 lady golfers on the European Pro tour will be in attendance too.

I was there to see the Leinster team win the Heineken Cup and am still in a daze from the weekend. It was wonderful, well done to the fans from both teams who made the weekend so memorable, not to mention the people of Scotland who are just the best craic ever.

As part of the brouhaha around Bernard Dunne winning his Super Bantam title, promoter Brian Peters decided he wanted to bring Big Night Boxing to Ireland. There would be drummers, dry ice, lights, cameras and lots of action.

The NFL pull an ad supporting gay marraige saying it violates their no advocacy policy, however, other advocacy ads are shown throughout the programming

Good bloody Jeebus. Myself and my girlfriend are here in our Dublin apartment, gingerly emerging out from under the furniture, having thought for a moment that we’d missed the blackout order.

The things I do for you!!! Here at Gaelick we decided January needed some brightening up so I was asked to compile a list of sexy sports women. It took hours, trawling through image after image but I did it – anything for my community!!!!

Today, Katie Taylor from Bray took the next step in retaining her World Lightweight Championship, qualifying for the final in grand style. The big final takes place tomorrow, November 29, but don’t bother trying to get to see it, none of the television stations are showing it.