Ireland’s top ranked men, Bryan Keane and Ben Shaw will be competing in the 5th leg of 8 in the World Triathlon Series this Sunday. With the absence of Britain’s Brownlee brothers victory is likely to be fought out between Spanish World Champion Javier Gomez and world number 3 and 4 ranked training mates Mario […]
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Ireland’s aspiring Olympic 49erFX sailors Andrea Brewster and Saskia Tidey competed at Kiel Week in Germany – one of the largest European Olympic class sailing regattas. Having only teamed up in late 2013 and committing full-time to sailing, the duo have been consistently improving their performances and moving up the ranks of the international fleet. And
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Sanita Puspure and the women’s pair of Leonora Kennedy and Lisa Dilleen will represent Ireland at the World Cup Regatta in Lucerne in Switzerland in two weeks’ time. Ireland performance director Morten Espersen said budgetary constraints mean that just two crews will travel. “The hope is that they will get close to the final . . . get
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As the OCI have received a new mini van from the International Olympic Committee they decided to present the Irish Amateur Boxing Association with the existing mini bus. The bus was rebranded with the Boxing Ireland logos and will be a tremendous benefit to the Boxing Association for transporting boxers to various competitions around Ireland
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Irish show jumping team manager Robert Splaine has announced a list of combinations for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) in Normandy, France, where the jumping competitions take place from 2 – 7 September 2014. Splaine said: ” At this point these are the main contenders being considered. However my decision will be announced in
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Sanita Puspure put in another outstanding performance at the weekend. Puspure reached the A Final of the women’s single sculls at the World Cup Regatta in Aiguebelette in France with a third-place finish in her semi-final. She never gained traction in the final yesterday and finished sixth. Two other Olympic-class crews finished in places which
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Derval O’Rourke has announced her retirement from athletics today. The former World Champion, multiple Irish record holder and three time Olympian has been one of Ireland’s greatest ever athletes, winning five Championship medals, including being crowned World Champion. O’Rourke ran all her Irish records at major championships in the green vest. The Cork hurdler also
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The Irish Eventing Squad for the World Equestrian Games 2014 has been announced by Horse Sport Ireland’s Eventing High Performance Manager Nick Turner. The selected squad in alphabetical order is: •Clare Abbott riding Dr Cormac Mackay’s Euro Prince (ISH) •Aoife Clark riding PJ Hegarty’s Fenyas Elegance (ISH) (or Henrietta Duchess of Bedford
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Statement: Pat Hickey, President, Olympic Council of Ireland ” On behalf of Team Ireland, I am thrilled at the news that Rory will declare for Ireland for the Rio Games. His amazing sporting talent, brilliant personality and endless energy will give all our athletes a huge boost. He is an iconic figure in world sport
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Congratulations to Robert Splaine’s Irish team who claimed their second victory in the famous five-star Spruce Meadows Nations’ Cup. Though not a point-scoring venue for Ireland in the Furusiyya series, the Irish quartet nevertheless trounced six other competing teams from the US, Canada and Mexico by coming home at the end of two rounds with
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It was a promising weekend for Irish athletics with Thomas Barr and Mark English enjoying the perfect build-up to the European Championships with some world class performances. Barr was in excellent form when setting an Irish 400m hurdles record of 48.90 in Geneva, Switzerland on Saturday to place him top of the European rankings. “I wasn’t expecting that,”
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Athletics Ireland have announced a team of 45 athletes to compete at the European Team Championships 1st League in Tallinn, Estonia from the 21st-22nd of June. The Irish team will face Estonia, Belarus, Greece, Norway, Romania, Portugal, Finland, Belgium, Hungary, Slovenia and Lithuania during the two-day competition, with the top three finishing teams earning a promotion
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