100 Years Of Team Ireland – Page 2

Represent Team Ireland on St Patrick’s Day

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Track’s Golden Hour | Los Angeles 1932

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A plaque at the fifth tee of Ballybunion Golf Club’s Old Course marks two weeks in 1932 when a four-man Irish Olympic track team trained there before the LA Games and forged friendships for life. Bob Tisdall won the 400m hurdles in Los Angeles and, just 10 minutes later, Cork’s Dr Pat O’Callaghan retained the

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When Independence and Sport Collided | Paris 1924

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Jack B Yeat’s painting ‘The Liffey Swim’ famously won Ireland’s first Olympic medal (silver) in Paris 1924 when Art, broken down into five categories (painting, literature, music, sculpture and architecture, all on a sporting theme) was an official Olympic event from 1910 to 1948. The first Liffey Swim took place in 1920, his painting was

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