Barry Murphy will lead an 18 strong team of swimmers at the Celtic Tri Nations Meet this weekend. The annual event pits top swimmers from Ireland, Scotland and Wales against each other with the 3 Nations all vying for the Celtic Tri Nations Championship Title. The event will be hosted by Scotland in 2013 running […]
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John Keohane has been selected on to the Ireland team for the European Championships. The Lee Valley man was the fastest man home in the Irish trials on Saturday and will compete for Ireland in Seville in four weeks’ time. Sanita Puspure is selected in the women’s single scull; Claire Lambe in the lightweight single and Niall
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The European Race Walking Cup will take place on May 19th in Dudince, Slovakia. Athletics Ireland are sending a team of seven walkers to the event. Robert Heffernan (Togher AC ),who placed fourth in the 2012 Olympics, will be looking to better his season’s best time of 1:21:59 which he set down earlier this year in
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Morten Espersen Irish Rowing High Performance Director will attend this weekend’s Irish trials at the National Rowing Centre. Esperson’s is keen to widen the base of the sport and building international crews with an eye to Rio 2016. More than 120 junior athletes will trial this weekend with hopes of places from World Junior Championships down to
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A total of eight Irish riders will compete at the world famous Badminton Horse Trials in England, which get underway this morning (Friday). In addition, some 27 of the 85 starters are Irish bred horses, representing countries such as the UK, the USA and New Zealand. The UK Olympic medallist Zara Phillips, grand-daughter of Queen Elizabeth, will
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Ireland’s No 1 Scott Evans has a tough assignment against top seed Viktor Axelsen of Denmark in the quarter-finals of the Danish Open Evans, who is seeded fifth for the tournament, beat two other Danish players to make the last eight. He dropped the opening set of his first round match against against Emil Holst
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Irish National Ice Skating Champion Clara Peters visited the Olympic Council offices today. Clara began skating internationally for Ireland in the 2008/9 season and has represented Ireland at European and World Championships since 2008. She has steadily improved her World Championship ranking from 54th in 2008/9 to 29th in 2012/13. Clara, born 1991 in Essen,
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Ireland will meet France over two legs at the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork and the National Stadium in Dublin on May 3rd and 5th next. The Ireland (male) London 2012 squad of John Joe Nevin, Paddy Barnes, Michael Conlan, Darren O’Neill and Adam Nolan and current European champion Joe Ward have been called up
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The very best in Irish figure skating talent was displayed at the Dundonald International Ice Bowl in Belfast on Sunday (28 April) for the Irish National Figure Skating Championships 2013. It was an early start for skaters, judges and coaches as the Championships were held between 6am – 8am. Senior, Junior and Novice level skaters competed in
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Sycerika McMahon who confirmed that she will be heading to Texas next year on a scholarship, kicked off the final day of action at the Carlton Irish National Swimming Championships putting a sixth national title to her name. McMahon (2:15.60) finished behind Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu (2:11.84) in the Women’s 200m Individual Medley but picked up
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Tony Byrne, who boxed out of the Tredagh BC in Drogheda, won lightweight bronze at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne after losing out to Harry Kurschat of United Germany on a split decision in the semi-finals. A few months after that defeat, Byrne beat Great Britain’s Dick McTaggart, who beat Kurschat in the Olympic final,
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John Somers Payne a double Olympian of Cork Harbour sailing, died yesterday, aged 87. Payne, a member of a well-known Munster sailing family, represented Ireland in the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne and four years later in Rome, competing in the Finn single-handed dinghy. Somers was an inspiration to us all at RCYC because he was
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