The women’s senior World League 2 hockey squad has been announced by Coach Darren Smith. The squad is made up of a panel of 18, with Ali Meeke and Yvonne O’Byrne bracketed as we assess the recovery of Ali Meeke’s broken hand that she sustained in Valencia and impending return to hockey over late February/early […]
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Rio Olympic Games hopeful Ben Shaw opened his season with a solid result at the Takapuna Sprint Triathlon Oceania Cup in New Zealand this weekend. Raced over a super sprint distance comprising of a 300m swim, 9.6km bike and 2.6km run, it was set up for the sprint specialists. Shaw cruised into the finals as
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Congratulations to the Irish show jumping team of Darragh Kenny, Lorcan Gallagher, Kevin Babington and Conor Swail who swept to victory in the FEI Furusiyya Nations’ Cup in Ocala, Florida at the weekend, finishing on a total of just four faults. Ireland’s victory was made remarkable by the fact that all four horses had not competed
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A review of the recent World Ski Championships in Vaile from Snowsports Ireland. The ladies team of Tess Arbez, Florence Bell and Victoria Bell along with the men’s team of Maxime Arbez, Conor Lyne and Pat McMillan selected by Snowsport Association of Ireland (SAI) represented Ireland in the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in
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The Olympic Council of Ireland recently had a visit from the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) at their headquarters in Dublin. In attendance were Dr Antonio Urso, President of EWF, Marino Ercolani Casadei, Treasurer EWF, Colin Buckley Executive Board Member EWF along with the President of Weightlifting Ireland John McDaid. Pat Hickey President OCI and Kevin
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Irish athlete Jack Woolley has taken a Bronze medal at the prestigious world ranking Taekwondo Championships in Florida. Woolley, a native of Tallaght in Dublin, turns 17 in September and as such is eligible to compete at junior and senior level this year. The US open was his first competition as a senior on the road to
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The new venue for the Road Time Trial will be in Pontal, located in the west Rio. The temporary venue will host the men’s and women’s time trial races, in which riders leave the starting line individually, every 90 seconds, with the cyclist who completes the course in the fastest time winning the gold medal. The
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The canoe slalom venue for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will be “absolutely wonderful” according to the International Canoe Federation (ICF). The Whitewater Stadium course in Deodoro is one of the most complex new builds in the Rio 2016 project, but the International Federation praised the progress being made and said work was “on schedule”. Jean
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The Irish men’s team finished second in a thrilling international distance medley relay at the New Balance Track & Field Center at the Armory , New York at the weekend, running under the previous world record with a final time of 9:25.37. USA established a new world record when winning in 9:19.93. Murray & Gregan First
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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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Olympic hopeful Bryan Keane missed out on a second podium finish in successive weekends as he had to settle for fourth in the Puerto Rico Continental Cup Triathlon. The 1500m swim strung out the field with USA’s Ian Boggs emerging from the water first in 19mins 15secs. Keane was a short way back in 19mins
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Ireland concluded their six match tour of South African tour with a pair of losses against world number five side Belgium, falling 3-0 on Saturday and 7-2 on Sunday in Cape Town. Its the start a big year with the pursuit of a first ever Olympic qualification the goal. The first phase of that begins
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