The club plays Gaelic football at Senior level as part of the South division of Tipperary GAA.

Ballyporeen took part in the fourth series of the reality television show, Celebrity Bainisteoir, which was broadcast in Autumn 2011.

Con "Shine" Moloney (1906-1963) and Paddy Ormonde brought the first Senior All Ireland Hardball Doubles Handball Championship to Ballyporeen in 1929, and again in 1931.

[4] In 1930 Tommy Moloney (1908-1943) and Ned O'Gorman won the All Ireland Junior Hardball Doubles Handball Championship for Ballyporeen.

[4] Eddie Corbett from Ballyporeen has won the United Sports Panel Award for Handball in 1987, 1993 and 1994 and shared it with John O'Donoghue in 1990 and 1991.