Finn Lynch is also in contention for a medal at the Laser Radial Men’s event which has an equally large turn-out of 90-boats as it it used as a stepping-stone class to the full-rig Men’s Laser Standard event. With three races to sail today, Finn Lynch of the National Yacht Club has a real chance of […]
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In the official Longines World Show Jumping Rankings covering competitions during the month of August, Ireland has four riders in the top 50. Leading the Irish entries in the monthly table is Tipperary’s Denis Lynch in 29th place, while Co. Down’s Conor Swail takes 36th place. Tipperary-born Shane Breen has jumped from 56th
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Irish boxers begin a 10-day training camp with Australia, Poland and Scotland at the Lough Lannagh holiday village in Castlebar next Tuesday. The camp will cater for up to 50 boxers, coaches and officials. “ We’ll be joined by Poland, Scotland and Australia for that, said Walsh following last weekend’s Elite tournament in France. “Then it’s Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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Eighteen year-old Wexford native Bertram Allen yesterday (Sunday) triumphed in the five-star Príncipe de Asturias jump-off competition in Gijon, Spain, aboard Ballywalter Farms’s grey mare Molly Malone V. A huge 18 horse jump-off from a starting field of 56 saw the Irish teenager challenged by some of the world’s top riders, but his time of 44.60
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Ireland’s Monika Dukarska and Leonora Kennedy finished 10th overall at the World Rowing Championships in Korea with a solid fourth place in their B final. It was their first major event in this Olympic-class discipline. The United States crew of Meghan O’Leary and Ellen Tomek were impressive winners, seeing off Russia and the Ukraine, who were closest to them down the course.
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Annalise Murphy goes into the final races of the Laser European and World Championships on her native Dublin Bay with a comprehensive 17 point lead ahead of Holland’s Olympic silver medallist Marit Bowmeester. With the prospect of a breezy finale on the waters off Dun Laoghaire Murphy is looking to resume the same kind of
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Leonora Kennedy missed out on a final place in the women’s double sculls after taking fifth in her semi-final. Enniskillen woman Kennedy and her partner Monika Dukarska are competing in the women’s double sculls. They will now race in the ‘B’ final on Sunday as they attempt to achieve their goal of a top-10 finish
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Fresher conditions are on the way for the biggest regatta of the year in Ireland, which has attracted some of world sailing’s biggest stars from 42 nations. Five times Olympic medallist Robert Sheidt (40) from Brazil will make his Dun Laoghaire debut, returning to Ireland for the first time since the Laser Worlds in Cork Harbour in
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London 2012 Olympic medallists John Joe Nevin, Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan will each move up a weight for a 4-Nations tournament in Berck, France this weekend. Ireland will meet France, Poland and the Ukraine at the tournament as part of their preparations for the AIBA World Elite Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan in October. Barnes moves up from
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Leonora Kennedy and Monika Dukarska are through to the World Championships semi-finals in South Korea. They finished second in the double sculls repechage on this morning in a time of 7:12.08. The Ireland pair were over two seconds behind Ekaterina Potapova and Maria Krasilnikova of Russia. Kennedy and Dukarska just missed out on an automatic semi-final
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Ireland’s men drew 2-2 against England in their final pool match of the European Hockey Championships taking place in Boom, Belgium, but with goal difference in play Ireland still missed out on a semi-final spot and will now have to play out to grab the 5th spot – one above their ranking in this tournament.
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Finishing second best European in the men’s world championship marathon – 21st overall – has given Paul Pollock considerable optimism for the future, especially as he enters the life of a full-time athlete. Pollock, a junior doctor in a Belfast hospital will take a career break in his medical career and now plans to put all his energy into
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