100 Years Of Team Ireland

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 [...]

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