Annalise Murphy will start racing in Florida today at her first competitive event since the London Olympics, beginning her four year campaign to Rio 2016. The 22 year old is competing at the ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami on Biscayne Bay where 300 of the world’s best sailors, representing 35 countries, will compete across […]
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Ireland Men’s Coach, Andrew Meredith has named an 18 man squad for the upcoming FIH World League 2 tournament in India. Ireland will begin their World League 2 adventure vs. Bangladesh in New Delhi on 18th February 2013 before facing Fiji, India, Oman and finally China on 24th February 2013. FIH World League 2 is
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Hamish Adams has been announced as the new Chief Executive Officer of Rowing Ireland. He takes over from Acting CEO Frank Coghlan and will be based in the National Rowing Centre at Farran Woods, Cork. Adams moves from his current role with the Irish Rugby Union Players Association (IRUPA) in late February. He has worked
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Nick Turner will be the new High Performance Manager for Irish Eventing. Turner is a Fellow of the British Horse Society (FBHS) and was an accomplished eventer who completed in 13 four star events. He stopped competing in 2008. In recent times he has been a member of the British Senior International Selection Committee and
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Brian Gregan (Clonliffe Harriers) recorded one of the fastest 400m times in the world this year at the AAI Indoors at the weekend. His time of 46.07 is also well inside the standard for the European Indoor championships, and is the fastest time ever run for an indoors 400m in Ireland. The previous best was held by
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After winning the Irish Open in December 2012, Irish number one Scott Evans has continued his good form as he won the 25th Li-Ning Winter Sun Cyprus International 2013 beating Andrew Smith (Eng) in 2 straight sets Mens Singles: Irish number one Scott Evans has looked in great form as he has made his way
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The Athletics Ireland Open Indoor Games takes place on Sunday 27th of January in the remarkable new Indoor Arena in Athlone IT. The new state of the art arena has attracted a record number of entries with over 360 athletes set to compete. The event will see a number of top international athletes battle it out
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Ireland’s most challenging opponents in World League Round Two in February will be India, the only team with a world ranking that is higher in the six-team pool. Ireland start the New Delhi tournament on February 18th against Bangladesh, at 40 in the world the second lowest ranked team in the competition. Following a rest day they play the
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Olympic bronze medallist Cian O’Connor was presented with The Irish Field’s prestigious 2012 senior show jumper of the year award. The show jumper overcame a number of late challenges to take his place in the show jumping final at London 2012 and went on to secure the bronze medal on Blue Loyd 12, who
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Ireland’s Olympic silver medallist John Joe Nevin has confirmed his intention to target gold in 2016 in Rio after helping the British Lionhearts to their latest World Series of Boxing success. Nevin, beaten by long-time rival Luke Campbell in the bantamweight final in London, initially announced his intention to turn professional after London but admitted
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A new online TV channel dedicated to both Irish Horse Racing and Irish Sport Horse disciplines is ready to air from early February 2013. Irish Horse TV will be the first Irish station of its kind which combines flat and jump racing, excluding live racing, with the Olympic disciplines of show jumping, eventing, dressage as
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Irish track cyclists Caroline Ryan and Eoin Mullen are set to race in the track cycling World Cup in Mexico this week, from the 17th – 19th January. Both riders will be racing in two disciplines over the competition, with Mullen aiming to gain enough points to qualify for the World Championships in Minsk next
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