Welcome to Team Ireland 🇮🇪 We are delighted to strengthen and add to our team with the appointments of both Kevin Keane (Marketing and Commercial Manager) and Ciara Lyons (Events and Sponsorship Manager). Kevin will join us shortly from Triathlon Ireland where he has worked very successfully as Head of Marketing, Communications and Sponsorship since 2016. Ciara joins us […]
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Gymnastics Ireland is happy to announce the selected Men’s and Women’s Artistic team to compete at the 2023 European Championships in Antalya, Turkey from the 11th – 16th April as follows: Men’s Artistic Gymnasts Women’s Artistic Gymnasts Coaches The 2023 European Championships kick off on Tuesday 11th April in Antalya, Turkey. Read on to find
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This week we released the first of three videos in a series looking at stories behind some of our Team Ireland Tokyo Olympic medals. ‘Blood, Sweat and Tears’ tells the story of the Women’s Four who stormed to an Olympic Bronze medal on the Sea Forest Waterway on a blistering hot day at the Tokyo
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The Olympic Federation of Ireland today announced details of its 2023 discretionary funding packages to National Federations. A pot of €205,000 has been allocated to projects across seventeen sports, an amount that is in addition to the €115,000 Make a Difference Athlete’s Fund that was distributed to athletes last week. This brings to over one
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OFI ANNOUNCES 2023 DISCRETIONARY FUND ALLOCATIONS TO NATIONAL FEDERATIONS OVER €1M ALLOCATED BY OFI TO PERFORMANCE PROJECTS SINCE 2018 The Olympic Federation of Ireland today announced details of its 2023 discretionary funding packages to National Federations. A pot of €205,000 has been allocated to projects across seventeen sports, an amount that is in addition to
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To celebrate International Women’s Day 2023, and Gender Equality Month, the Olympic Federation of Ireland has today announced a series of profiles of some of Ireland’s high-performance female coaches, who have been blazing a trail in Irish Olympic sport. The series kicked off with interviews with two well-known names in Irish sport, Lisa Jacob (Hockey Ireland
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TOKYO MEDAL MOMENTS REVISITED IN MINI-DOCUSERIES OLYMPIC BRONZE MEDAL IN WOMEN’S FOUR THROWBACK As athletes pass the halfway mark in the shortest Olympic cycle in history, the Olympic Federation of Ireland today launched the first film in a mini docuseries reflecting on some of the Olympic medal moments from Tokyo 2020, a timely reminder of
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ADDITIONAL FUNDS ADDED WITH €115,000 DISTRIBUTED ACROSS 16 SPORTS Following an overwhelming response in applications to the Make a Difference athlete fund that was announced by the OFI Athletes’ Commission earlier this year, the Olympic Federation of Ireland has channelled an additional €50,000 directly to athletes. Athletes across sixteen sports were awarded a total amount
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Why did you start coaching, what was your avenue into your coaching journey, did someone encourage you in the early days? At the age of Ten, two events affected my life forever. In 1988 my sporting journey began. I watched in wonder the Seoul Olympics, particularly the Steeplechase. And the Rás Tailteann (RAS – International
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With now less than 500 days to go until the return of greatest sporting show on earth, fans can still be in with a chance to see Team Ireland’s extraordinary athletes back in Olympic competition. Whether it’s Kellie Harrington boxing in the electric atmosphere of the Rolland Garros Stadium, Daniel Wiffen gliding through the water
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2023 WORLD TRANSPLANT GAMES Fourteen Irish transplant recipients will travel to Perth, Australia next month to represent Ireland at the World Transplant Games (15-21April). This follows a four-year hiatus for the biennial World Transplant Games, as the previous event planned for 2021 had to be cancelled due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The Irish squad
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Three Irish divers have been announced to represent Ireland at the upcoming World Aquatics Championships, an opportunity at qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. European finalists Clare Cryan and Ciara McGing and World Junior medallist Jake Passmore will represent Ireland at the Championships from July 15th – 22nd in Fukuoka, Japan. Cryan and McGing, have both
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