IN 2024, TEAM IRELAND CELEBRATES 100 YEARS OF PARTICIPATION AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES.
Team Ireland’s centenary celebrations honour not only our athletes but ignite a spark of inspiration in the hearts of future generations. We pay tribute to the legacy of Irish Olympians, who have paved the way over the past century, acknowledging their dedication and achievements that have brought pride to our nation. By sharing their stories, we ensure their impact endures for generations to come.
100 YEARS MILESTONE STORIES
Early Swimming Siblings | 100 Year Moments
It was in water-polo, in 1924, that Ireland first made waves in an Olympic swimming pool and another men’s water polo team took part four years later when Irish swimming history was made. That was when the first two swimmers took part; William Broderick in 400m freestyle and Marquerite Dockrell in 100m freestyle. Broderick, from [...]
Laura Weber | Multidisciplinary Fashion Designer
Getting to know a three-time Irish Olympian, ahead of one of the biggest days in her life away from sporting arena, was the genesis for Irish fashion designer Laura Weber designing Team Ireland’s uniforms for the opening and closing ceremonies in Paris 2024. Weber, a textile graduate from NCAD, first came to international prominence when [...]
The Design Story of Team Ireland’s Official Wear Collection
This summer at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Team Ireland athletes will feature in LW Pearl formal wear in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. The partnership will feature the best of Irish athletes in the best of Irish design, created and manufactured by New York based Dubliner, Laura Weber. Background Above all Laura wanted the […]
Unique Hard Court History | 100 Years Of Team Ireland
Two things resulted in Ireland’s only Olympic participation to date: the proximity of the London Olympics in 1948 and the founding of the Irish Amateur Basketball Asociation (ABAI) in 1945. The foreign game of basketball was primarily played by the army within Ireland up to the 1940s and the ABAI reasoned that Olympic participation would [...]
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This squad 🤌 2nd in the WORLD! 🌎🔥 consistency 🔒
Final showdown at @svns_mad before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games 👊
#TeamIreland
What a day!! 🔥
The competition just gets better and better every year at Team Ireland’s Fittest sponsor 😮💨 We had tug of war, egg n’ spoon racing (with some questionable techniques 👀), an art competition where competitors were trying to paint the Liffey Swim by Jack B. Yeats (who won a silver medal in the 1924 Paris Olympics) and so much more!!
Our teams were led by a stellar coaching line up in Annalise Murphy, Kenneth Egan, Rob Heffernan, Katie Mullan, Marian Heffernan and Derval O’Rourke 👏
The current champions 🏆 @deloitte_ireland took the honours again 🥇 with coach @robert.heffernan 👊
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After 12 days travelling across the Mediterranean Sea from Piraeus to Marseille, the Olympic flame is arriving on French soil this evening 🔥 🔥 🔥
The Olympic torch relay will then bring the flame through 400 towns in the host country 🇫🇷 before arriving in Paris for the Opening Ceremony!
Stay tuned for an 🇮🇪 reveal 👀
📸 @Paris2024
This energy 😤😤😤
#TeamIreland | #RoadToParis
Nothing but passion 🔥😤
The @ireland7s win silver at the @sgrugby7s 🔥 currently lying in 2nd in the overall @svnsseries
📹 @svns_mad
#TeamIreland | #RoadToParis
A night in the Bahamas turns into a trip to @paris2024 for the Olympic Games? 🔥
No it wasn’t a dream 💭 the @athleticsirelandofficial mixed and women’s 4x400m relay squads qualify for Paris 2024!!
With Rhasidat Adeleke and Sharlene Mawdsley doubling up on the night to run in both 👀
Let them 👩🍳
#TeamIreland | #Paris2024
Be fearless, be undeniable 🥇
#TeamIreland | #RoadToParis
The #TeamIreland #dreamteam at it again 🙌
Olympians @rorymcilroy and @shanelowrygolf putting on a top class performance with a win at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
📸 @golf_com
#Golf
Single Scull Silver for Olympian Margaret Cremen at the European Championships!!!
We normally see her in the lightweight double with her partner Aoife Casey, but this weekend the Cork rower shone solo in Hungary!
Nicely done, Mags 🫡
📸 @sportsfile
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Where will you be in three months?
#TeamIreland | #Paris2024
🎥 @paris2024
About last week 👀
36 Olympic and Paralympic athletes came together at Adidas Arena, Paris to launch the @adidas Paris 2024 kits 🔥
Pretty special 🙏
#CreatedWithAdidas | #TeamIreland | #RoadToParis
Meet the artist behind our Dare to Believe Road to Paris map 👩🎨🗺️
@bykathiburke is an artist, illustrator and author from Dunmore East in Co.Waterford! Kathi has been illustrating and designing non-fiction children’s books since 2015 on interesting topics with focus on Irish culture and historical figures 🎨
Each Olympian has their own stop, where classes will unlock new videos and challenges along the way 🥇 A limited number of maps will be sent to each school that registers to the Road to Paris challenge! 🔗📲 in bio to register ✍️
#TeamIreland | #DareToBelieve
