The Irish Dressage team have qualified for an Olympic Games for the first time ever.

The opening ceremony for the World Equestrian Games (WEG) took place last night in Tryon, North Carolina and the first of thirteen days of action gets underway today. Endurance, Reining and Dressage are the disciplines kicking things off and Ireland is represented in all three.

Little over a year ago, Irish karting was hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons.