Organisation: Olympic Federation of Ireland

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Irish Examiner view: Olympic boycott

Paris Olympics

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Puspure: Ireland could lose Olympic prospects to retirement if 5km restriction not eased

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Calls to ease coronavirus travel restrictions on elite sportspeople

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The CEO Series: Sarah Keane - 'Sport is part of our DNA. We must support sport so it doesn’t go under'

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Olympics dream on hold: Triathlete Dr Carolyn Hayes on switching her focus from Tokyo to the virus crisis

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Government pledges 'vital supports' to help sport in Ireland survive pandemic

Irish sporting chiefs meet Minister over coronavirus impact

Top executives from the GAA, FAI, IRFU, and Sport Ireland were included on the call.

Fri, 03 Apr, 2020

Mission changes but stays the same as Team Ireland chief turns thoughts to 2021

Patricia Heberle has embraced the changes, enforced though they were.

Wed, 25 Mar, 2020

'A mixed bag of emotions' as rocky road to Tokyo extended until 2021

The pinned tweet at the head of Natalya Coyle’s Twitter feed dates back to August of last year.

Tue, 24 Mar, 2020

Irish Olympic chiefs welcome decision to postpone Tokyo Games

“This decision, while totally appropriate, will impact on sport and our athletes in different ways, there will be mixed emotions.”

Tue, 24 Mar, 2020

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Olympics to be postponed until 2021, IOC confirms

The Games will not now take place in 2020, but will happen no later than the summer of 2021.

Tue, 24 Mar, 2020

Irish chiefs toe IOC line but Games set for delay

Irish Olympic chiefs have opted against pulling their athletes from the Olympics, should it proceed as planned, but there was a resigned acceptance in their utterances yesterday that a Games due to take place in Japan’s searing summer heat will be placed in cold storage.

Tue, 24 Mar, 2020

Nissan ‘Road to Rio’ film series puts Rob Heffernan’s Olympic dream into the spotlight

Heffernan hits out at ‘ridiculous’ dithering

Rob Heffernan has slammed the International Olympic Committee for delaying its decision about a possible postponement of the Tokyo Games, branding the IOC’s dithering as “ridiculous”.

Mon, 23 Mar, 2020

Irish Olympic chiefs toe the line for now but will do what is best for 'our' athletes

Canada and Australia have already pulled out of this summer's Olympic Games in Tokyo but their Irish counterparts, while all but accepting that a postponement is inevitable, have refrained from the nuclear option for now.

Mon, 23 Mar, 2020

Choppy waters ahead as Liam Jegou trains for Olympics

Before we talk about a sport that’s like juggling mercury, and the nomadic lifestyle of living in a converted Hi Ace van on Europe’s riverbanks that goes with it, we need to talk first about the accent.

Wed, 04 Mar, 2020

RTÉ still on course to make 20% women’s sport target

RTÉ Director General Dee Forbes has restated the broadcaster’s commitment to a minimum of 20 per cent of sports output in 2020 being devoted to coverage of Women’s sport.

Thu, 14 Nov, 2019

'A Dub and one of our own': Friends and family bid Gay Byrne goodbye

The popular broadcaster passed away last Monday at the age of 85.

Fri, 08 Nov, 2019

How Joe Schmidt’s team became guinea pigs for Olympic experience

Hideyuki Harada has been mayor of Fukuroi for 19 years. Six times he has been elected to his post. This is a man who knows a thing or two about how to handle people and he is charm personified as a dozen or so Irish journalists join him at city hall the day before Japan and Ireland meet in their World Cup Pool A encounter ten minutes down the road.

Sat, 28 Sep, 2019