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Statement on Graeme McDowell’s unavailability for Rio 2016

OCI Statement on Graeme McDowell’s unavailability for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games 23 June 2016 – Dublin, Ireland: The Olympic Council of Ireland respects the decision taken by Graeme McDowell to make himself unavailable for consideration for the Irish Olympic Golf Team. It is important to re-emphasise that Graeme’s decision was taken for personal reasons

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Irish Open Golf

The Irish Open begins this Thursday, with a glittering array of talent gearing up to do battle at the K Club, including all of our top Irish Golfers and Team Ireland Olympic contenders hoping to impress in front of the home crowds. In a few months time attention will turn to Rio 2016 and golf”s

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Mehaffey and Hendrick Excel

Top Irish golf prospect Olivia Mehaffey and World Youth Olympic canoe Medallist Robert Hendrick inspired by their experiences at the Nanjing  Youth Olympics in 2014  have made significant progress in recent weeks. Mehaffey defied harsh conditions at one of golf’s toughest courses, Royal Troon, and collected the most prestigious prize yet in her career, the Helen Holm Trophy. Mehaffey,

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McIlroy wins in Dubai

What an opening statement to 2015 from the world No 1 Rory McIlroy. Congratulations to Rory McIlroy who played superb golf on the way to beating the fast-finishing Swede Alexander Noren by three shots and he joins Nick Faldo and Severiano Ballesteros as the only Europeans in history to have won at least four majors and

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Rio 2016 Golf Course

The Rio 2016 Olympic Golf Course in Barra da Tijuca is looking greener every day. With 59% of construction now completed, grass has been sown on five of the eighteen holes, with irrigation reaching more than two-thirds of the course. “After this stage comes the ‘bedding-in’ period, during which we monitor the growth of this

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