Hungarian Open Indoor Competition Budapest, Hungary 17th – 18th January 2015 Arthur Lanigan O’Keeffe finished in an agonising fourth place in the first competition of the 2015. The Irish Olympian was in touching distance of the podium throughout today’s competition until the last few steps of the run where he collapsed in sheer exhaustion […]
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Ireland’s Seamus O’Connor has produced the best slopestyle performance of his career so far and in doing so has qualified ( with the second highest score – 90.33 ) for the final of the Snowborad Slopestyle World Championship in Kreischberg . Prior to the event O’Connor’s coach Sam Wilkinson said ” In this post Olympic year Seamus has
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Ireland’s National Men’s Coach Craig Fulton has selected a squad of 22 for the South African Training Camp as they fine tune preparation for World League 2 in San Diego which starts on February 28th. In South Africa they will play 6 tests against South Africa, Netherlands & Belgium. Fulton said “this is a really
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Cycling Ireland has entered a large team in next weekend’s UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Cali, Colombia. This is the third and final World Cup on the Track Cycling 2014/15 calendar, with more valuable Olympic qualification points available. Racing begins on Friday with the Men and Women’s Team Pursuit Squads competing, the Men’s Team
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Billy Twomey notched up Ireland’s first win at the weekend in the prestigious five-star show in Basel, Switzerland, and did so riding an Irish Sport Horse. The 37 year-old, who is now based in England, showed a notable turn of speed at the St Jakobshalle stadium (Friday Jan 9th), when he piloted Joe Flynn’s grey
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Congratulations to Ireland’s Fionnuala Britton who finished second behind Britain’s Emelia Gorecka in the Great Edinburgh Cross-Country at Holyrood Park at the weekend. Gorecka, 20, came home in a time of 21 minutes 26 seconds for the six kilometre race, with two-time European cross-country champion Britton seven seconds behind and Spain’s Trihas Gebre in third. Britton,
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The Senior Women’s Hockey Team will fly out to Valencia on Friday the 9th of January and return on Tuesday the 20th of January. The team will have an intensive training camp before facing Spain in a 3 match series in Valencia on the 17th, 18th and 20th of January. Ireland and Spain currently sit
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Fionnuala Britton (Kilcoole AC), Sara Treacy (Dunboyne AC) and Michelle Finn (Leevale AC) will represent Team Europe this Saturday, 10th of January at the Great Edinburgh Cross Country. All three athletes were selected based on their strong performances at the European Cross Country Championships in Samokov, Bulgaria on the 14th of December. On that occasion
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Congratulations to Rory McIlroy who was named RTÉ Sport – Person of the Year for the second time last night. It was a remarkable year for the golf world number one, which included winning two Majors, the Open Championship at Royal Liverpool and the PGA Championship at Valhalla. He also played a leading role in Europe’s Ryder Cup victory.
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Antoinette Neamt deservedly won the “Swimmer of the Meet” Award when she smashed the Irish Senior 1500m Freestyle Record on the final day of competition at the Irish Short Course Championships in Lisburn. Having set the previous record of 16:40.22 at the 2013 championships, Neamt knocked almost 8 seconds off that time to set a
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Congratulations to the Irish senior women’s team who won a bronze team medal at the European Cross country Championships in Samokov, Bulgaria on Sunday, 14th of December. The team made up of Fionnuala Britton (Kilcoole AC), Sara Treacy (Dunboyne AC), Michelle Finn (Leevale AC), Ann-Marie McGlynn (Letterkenny AC), Siobhan O ’Doherty (Borrisokane AC) and Laura
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Do you feel the need for speed? If you do, then grab yourself a place on the Ice Skating Association of Ireland (ISAI) Speed Skating Camp which will be held at Ice Skating Blanchardstown in Dublin from 29 December 2014 till 2 January 2015. This will be the first time ever that the exciting
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