On the eve of the 17th 49er World Championship and 1st ever 49erFX World Championship, the city of Marseille eagerly anticipates a great battle. Ireland’s Olympic sailors Ryan Seaton and Matt McGovern, will be hoping to replicate the recent successes of their teammate Annalise Murphy as they compete in their biggest event of the year – the […]
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Irish Show Jumping Team Manager Robert Splaine squad for the important Nations’ Cup Final to be held at Barcelona in Spain next week is: Bertram Allen Shane Breen Cameron Hanley Denis Lynch Billy Twomey Horses will be announced shortly. Ireland is one of 18 nations from around the globe to have qualified for the inaugural
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The IABA have named a ten-strong panel for the AIBA World Elite Men’s Championships in Kazakhstan. The Championships officially begin in Almaty on October 11th. Four Belfast boxers – London 2012 bronze medalists Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan, Sean McComb and Tommy McCarthy – have been named in the team. Current European champion Jason Quigley
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Natalya Coyle and Darren O’Neill reflect on the positive performance environment within Team Ireland during the London Olympic Games.
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Natayla Coyle Ireland’s Modern Pentathlete who finished ninth in the London 2012 Games talks about her multi sports training schedule, the complexities of her sport, her support team and future ambition.
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Athletes from Dublin, Wexford, Kerry, Louth, Meath, Tipperary, Kilkenny, Laois, Northern Ireland and Netherlands recently took part in the Irish Taekwondo Union Irish Open at the Tallaght Arena. The ITU is the sole body responsible for the promotion and development of World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Olympic style, Taekwondo within Ireland. The WTF are the largest
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Aileen Reid produced a fantastic performance at the weekend to win silver at the World triathlon champions grand final. She did so on the London olympic triathlon course where she had crashed out of contention on last summer. It started out with a fast swim in the Serpentine lake, where Aileen was 5th after the opening 750m
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Olympian Aoife Clark won her first Three Star event at the weekend, after taking the lead in Saturday’s cross-country phase at the Blenhein CCI3* event. With not even a fence in hand when entering show jumping phase, the 32 year-old nevertheless held her nerve, and guided PJ Hegarty’s Irish Sport Horse Fenya’s Elegance to a zero penalty
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Galway’s Kieran Molloy and Mayo’s Sean Conroy are guaranteed two bronze medals at the AIBA World Junior Championships after producing two magnificent quarter-final wins in Kiev, Ukraine today. (Pictured: Kieran Molloy with Irish coach Billy McClean after today’s win) The Connaught duo (Oughterard BC and Ballyhaunis BC) beat Australia’s Joshua McKay and Uzbekistan’s Bakhronjon Fozilov
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After taking a sensational Semi-final spot for in Belgium beating the English top seeds in Leuven, Belgium today, Chloe and Sam Magee lost their semi-final match this evening. The pair lost to Danish 4th seeds Rasmussen and Grebak 14-21 19-21. The Irish number one pairing of Sam and Chloe Magee booked their place in the
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Scott Evans was first on-court against Flemming Quach of Denmark. The 21 year old Dane who is now ranked 80 in the World took the opening set 21-17. In the second set it was again a close encounter but Quach once again took the important points to win the second set 21-17 to proceed to
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23-year-old London Olympian, Annalise Murphy has won the 2013 Laser Radial European Championship this afternoon. Annalise won eight of the 10 starts, with her latest win in her final race of the series. The Rathfarnham sailor finished comfortably ahead of Marit Bouwmeester (Nethelands) and Alison Young (Great Britain). The European Championship is Annalise’s
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