Irish Olympics selection trials at La Grande Motte see experienced duo Robert Dickson and Sean Waddilove hold off challenge of Cork pair Séafra Guilfoyle and Johnny Durcan
Paris 2024
One of Ireland’s first full-time athletes, Terry McHugh was never afraid of taking on impossible odds, and going where no one had gone before
The major athletics events this summer are not simple or straightforward affairs for athletes when they face having to balance individual aspirations with team obligations
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With Olympic qualification already in the bag, Adeleke, Cillín Greene, Thomas Barr and Sharlene Mawdsley took bronze in the 4x400m mixed relay
Ireland’s women’s 4x400m team and mixed 4x400m team both book their spots in Paris with record-breaking displays
Kerryman Ned Barrett, holder of an All-Ireland winner’s medal for hurling, beat Corkman Con O’Kelly to claim the title of British heavyweight wrestling champion in 1908. The stakes were even higher when the pair clashed again later that year ...
Sport Ireland Institute has opened a new environmental training chamber which can simulate exact conditions for the Games in July - we gave it a try
The 25-year-old is part of the women’s pursuit track cycling team qualified for Paris after a poster campaign caught her attention
Drogheda boxer had been looking to change allegiance after Irish Athletic Boxing Association said they would not be putting her name forward
Paul O’Donovan finishes second in the B final in the heavyweight races before changing his attention back to lightweights ahead of Paris
Competing on her home track at the University of Texas, Adeleke notches a time of 10.84 seconds
The Corkman once hailed in the US as ‘the Cajun sportsman of the century’ and described by Eamonn Coghlan as ‘one of the greatest Irish athletes of all time’ was also an inventor, engineer and musician. One RTÉ commentator says he was ’probably the most remarkable person I’ve come across in my life’
24-year-old retains his European crown months out from the Paris Olympics with a score of 15.300
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