Game on: Resilient Irish rise to Olympic challenge

A TOTAL of 49 Irish athletes will travel to the Paralympic Games in London later this summer.

The Games, which run from August 29 to September 9, feature 4,200 elite athletes from more than 150 countries – and as such are the biggest yet.

Even so, the Irish team, spread across 10 sports, has high hopes of repeating the successes of Beijing 2008 when our team of 45 athletes returned with three gold medals, one silver and one bronze.