Swim Ireland announced today the appointment of a new Swim Ireland Ulster High Performance Coach. Swim Ireland, in conjunction with Sport Northern Ireland and Swim Ulster established this position to support the implementation and delivery of Swim Ireland’s overall National High Performance Plan, which includes the development of a High Performance Centre in Bangor.
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Irish bantamweight John Joe Nevin has signed up with Paris in the revolutionary World Series of Boxing.The 21-year-old Irish champion, who boxes out of the Cavan boxing club, inked a three-year contract at the National Stadium in Dublin on Wednesday and will leave for Paris on 1 November.
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Representatives of the world’s 205 NOCs are on route for Mexico, where the General Assembly and meetings organised by the worldwide association of NOCs will take place between the 19th and the 24th of October.
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The Summer European Youth Olympic Games will take place in Trabzon, Turkey, from 23rd – 29th July, 2011.
Over 3,500 athletes from 49 European National Olympic Committees will take part in nine sports.
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As the Irish Hockey League gets underway, Ireland's elite men's players go professional in Europe and the womens programme centralises in Dublin.
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Ireland's Katie Taylor has been named the AIBA World female boxer of the year for the second time in two years.
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One of the many features of the West Bank visit was a football match between Palestine Olympic Team and Jordan Olympic Team
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David Gillick is to leave his training base in Loughborough University in England and move permanently to Orlando, Florida, to work with Lance Brauman, coach to American sprinter Tyson Gay, amongst others
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Cork's Billy Twomey continued with his charge up the rankings in Kentucky last night (Wednesday), when a single time fault on Sue Davies's mare 'Tinka's' Serenade' left him in eighth place of the world's top riders.
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Pat Hickey has spent the last couple of days visiting Jordan, Palestine & Israel with an IOC Delegation
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There was an air of deep disappointment in the Irish camp in Kentucky yesterday after Tuesday's dissapointing exit from the team show jumping competition at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.
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Lisa Kearney produced the finest performance of her career to win her third World Cup medal in twelve months.
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