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Official Opening of the Centre Culturel Irlandais 100 Year Exhibition

100 Years Of Team Ireland, News / Kieran

Yesterday marked the official opening of the Centre Culturel Irlandais (@cc_irlandais) 100 Years Exhibition of Team Ireland at the Olympic and Paralympic Games. ‘Just a few hundred metres from the Irish cultural centre, 130 years ago at the Sorbonne, Pierre de Coubertin worked to persuade the world to unite through sport. We need to celebrate [...]

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King Of The Fling – Terry McHugh

100 Years Of Team Ireland, Athletics, Bobsleigh, News / Kieran

Terry McHugh is indelibly etched on Olympic history as the only Irish athlete to qualify for six Games thanks to his dual talents in javelin and bobsleigh. Born in Clonmel, he started athletics with Nenagh Olympic AC before his family moved to Meath and the 21-time national javelin champion still remains the only Irishman to

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100 YEARS OF TEAM IRELAND TO BE CELEBRATED AT ST PATRICK’S FESTIVAL IN DUBLIN, SUPPORTED BY PTSB

100 Years Of Team Ireland, News, Paris 2024, Paris 2024 / Heather

A global audience will witness Ireland’s celebration of 100 Years of Olympic participation next month when Team Ireland plays a central role in the National St Patrick’s Day Parade in Dublin on 17 March 2024. Ireland first competed as a nation in the Olympic Games in Paris 1924, and St. Patrick’s Day will serve as

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A RALLYING FORCE IN RACQUET SPORTS | Chloe Magee

100 Years Of Team Ireland, Badminton, News / Kieran

Irish badminton has a relatively short but rich Olympic history and women have played a really seminal role in it. Sonia McGinn, a 26-year-old from Howth, was the first player to ever qualify when she competed in Sydney 2000 and she also had a female coach (Mary Dinan). Then came Chloe Magee who was only

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100 YEARS OF TEAM IRELAND – OLYMPIAN RECOGNITION PROGRAMME UNVEILED

100 Years Of Team Ireland, Boxing, News, Paris 2024 / Heather

Celebrating 100 Years of Team Ireland, Olympian Recognition Programme Unveiled Schools, Clubs, and Communities invited to celebrate their Olympians with a Team Ireland plaque As part of the Team Ireland celebrations to mark its centenary, the Olympic Federation of Ireland has launched an Olympian Recognition Programme which allows schools, universities, clubs, and communities to celebrate

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CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS FOR TEAM IRELAND UNVEILED

100 Years Of Team Ireland, Boxing, Paris 2024, Paris 2024 / Heather

One hundred years of Irish participation at the Olympic Games will be celebrated this year with a series of events highlighting the achievements and rich history of Team Ireland’s Olympic athletes. A century after the fledgling Irish State first took its place among the family of nations at the 1924 Paris Olympic Games, the Olympic

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Represent Team Ireland on St Patrick’s Day

100 Years Of Team Ireland, News / Kevin

We're inviting Olympians from past Games to bring their families along and walk behind the Team Ireland banner this St Patrick's Day. As part of our Centenary celebrations, Team Ireland is in touch with a number of St Patrick's Day parades around the country. Our vision is to have Olympians represent Team Ireland and the

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Striking A Blow For All Women | London 2012

100 Years Of Team Ireland / Kieran

Few people have had such a seismic effect on Olympic history than Katie Taylor who turned the 10,000 capacity ExCel Stadium in London into an ear-splitting ‘little Ireland’ over the course of her historic run to gold at the 2012 Games.The first time women’s boxing was included on the Olympic programme there were only three

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Sail Of The Century | Moscow 1980

100 Years Of Team Ireland, News, Sailing / Kieran

Up until 1980 just 21 men had represented Ireland in Olympic sailing (women-only events were not introduced until 1988) so the silver medal won by David Wilkins and James Wilkinson in the Flying Dutchman class proved a pivotal moment for our island nation.Wilkins (from Malahide) was the first Irishman to compete in five Olympic Games

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Rowing’s First Olympic Ripples | Montreal 1976

100 Years Of Team Ireland, News / Kieran

It was actually a visit from Hugh O’Callaghan, son of double Olympic hammer champion Dr Pat, that convinced Carlow sculler Sean Drea to take up a US college scholarship (in Philadelphia), which raised his rowing to another level. He was seventh in the 1972 Olympics, a regular winner at prestigious Henley Regatta from 1973-’75 and

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The First Lady Of Irish Track | Melbourne 1956

100 Years Of Team Ireland, News / Kieran

Maeve Kyle (nee Shankey), who turned 95 last October, was born in Kilkenny and, like her former PE teacher in Alexandra College (Dorothy Dermody), also made Irish Olympic history. She was the only woman on an 18-strong Irish team in Melbourne 1956 and the first to represent Ireland in Olympic track and field in Melbourne

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A woman who rarely retreated | London 1948

100 Years Of Team Ireland / Kieran

Dorothy ‘Tommy’ Dermody, the only female athlete on the 89-strong Irish team at the 1948 Olympic Games, was an extraordinary sporting pioneer. Born in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary in 1909 (her family later moved to Kilmacanogue, in Wicklow) she often accompanied her father, a ships’ captain, on his travels. As he was only allowed one female

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100 Years Of Team Ireland

Official Opening of the Centre Culturel Irlandais 100 Year Exhibition

King Of The Fling – Terry McHugh

100 YEARS OF TEAM IRELAND TO BE CELEBRATED AT ST PATRICK’S FESTIVAL IN DUBLIN, SUPPORTED BY PTSB

A RALLYING FORCE IN RACQUET SPORTS | Chloe Magee

100 YEARS OF TEAM IRELAND – OLYMPIAN RECOGNITION PROGRAMME UNVEILED

CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS FOR TEAM IRELAND UNVEILED

Represent Team Ireland on St Patrick’s Day

Striking A Blow For All Women | London 2012

Sail Of The Century | Moscow 1980

Rowing’s First Olympic Ripples | Montreal 1976

The First Lady Of Irish Track | Melbourne 1956

A woman who rarely retreated | London 1948

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