Pentathlon Ireland secured three top ten finishes at the Hungarian Indoor competition this weekend with Natalya Coyle narrowly missing out on the medals by finishing 4th, Arthur Lanigan-O’Keeffe in 5th and Eanna Bailey in 9th. Further success was achieved by the High Performance Programme’s Development athletes with Kate Coleman Lenehan 17th, Sive Brassil 19th, Naomi […]
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In the 2013 Irish Nationals Men’s Singles final, Olympian Scott Evans beat Tony Stephenson 21-17 21-8. Fellow Olympian Chloe Magee followed beating Sinead Chambers 21-10 21-12. Inspired by the Olympians the under 15 National Championships running alongside the seniors saw Dublin’s Sam McKay beat Ulster’s Chin Nam Soong 21-9, 21-6 and Munster’s Moya Ryan beat
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Double Olympian Scott Evans hopes to add to his collection of seven Irish titles when he plays in the Irish National Badminton Championships in Lisburn this weekend. Evans is in confident form after winning the men’s singles title at the Cyprus International in Nicosia last week. He has a tough match against Leinster champion Owen
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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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