Liam O’Brien (24) is all set to close out the season this weekend (10-12 March) as he represents Ireland at the KB Financial Group ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships in Seoul, South Korea. The Irish skater will be among a field of over 80 athletes from 34 countries racing for top honours in the […]
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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 kicks off today with interviews with two well-known names in Irish sport, Lisa Jacob
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NOELLE Morrissey and Lisa Jacob have lots in common. Not only were they both high achieving Irish internationals in athletics and hockey respectively but they retain endless ambition for other women in sport. They both now work in High Performance sport – one fulltime, one a volunteer – but lamentably, also have one more thing
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EXPERIENCE PLAN LAUNCHED FOR PARIS 2024 BY THE OLYMPIC FEDERATION OF IRELAND O’SULLIVAN GROUP CONFIRMED AS HOSPITALITY PARTNER IRISH CULTURAL CENTRE TO HOST ATHLETE EXPERIENCE POST-COMPETITION The Olympic Federation of Ireland today unveiled the experience strand of its Paris 2024 Olympic Games planning, including partnerships with the O’Sullivan Group and the Centre Culturel Irlandais (Irish
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On 14 March 2023, with 500 days to go before the Olympic Games begin, Paris 2024, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, French embassies and the overseas French territories bearing the ‘Terre de Jeux 2024’ label will invite the world to take part in a 24-hour relay which celebrates the power of sport.
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Team Ireland signed off the European Athletics Indoor Championships in style yesterday, with Darragh McElhinney (4th in 3000m), Sarah Lavin (6th in 60m hurdles), and the women’s 4x400m team (5th) all securing top-six-placings on the final day of Istanbul 2023 (March 5th). Darragh McElhinney (UCD AC) produced the race of his life in the men’s
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Ireland Women return to World Series action this weekend. The Ireland Sevens squads, sponsored by TritonLake, are facing into a crucial weekend of HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series action in Vancouver, as the race to qualify for the 2024 Olympics hots up. The World Series rolls into BC Place this Friday for a blockbuster double-header tournament, with both
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THEIR best ever season on the HSBC International Sevens Tour means Ireland’s women have given themselves a fantastic opportunity to gain automatic qualification for Paris 2024, more than a year in advance. The top four from the global rugby Sevens series automatically qualify OR top five if that includes the host nation (who get
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YOUTH MULTI-SPORT EVENT COMES TO A CLOSE Team Ireland’s Ethan Bouchard and Eábha McKenna completed their final event on the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) schedule yesterday, competing well in the Super-G. Both competitions took place on Monte Lussari, just outside Tarvisio, on the same piste as the other Alpine races earlier this week. The
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27 January 2023 Aggressive racing from Team Ireland’s Ethan Bouchard fell short, with a crash in the final gates of the second run in the demanding Giant Slalom (GS) course. The seventeen-year-old Alpine Skier was representing West Cork today at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Friuli Venezia Giulia, in Italy. Similar to yesterday’s Girl’s GS,
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OLYMPIC FEDERATION OF IRELAND WELCOMES TUG OF WAR IRELAND AS A NEW MEMBER GENDER EQUALITY AND GOVERNANCE REFORMS ENHANCED The Olympic Federation of Ireland this evening, held an Extraordinary General Meeting of its members in Dublin at which several constitutional and governance changes were approved, as well as approval for Tug of War Ireland as
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WICKLOW SKIER RISES TO OCCASION IN ITALY Team Ireland’s Eábha McKenna returned to the slopes in Tarvisio, Italy to compete in the Girl’s Giant Slalom (GS) event today at the European Youth Olympic Festival. The Wicklow teenager was competing in the Girl’s Giant Slalom where she finished 42nd with a time of 3:02.79. The sixteen-year-old
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