The Irish Men’s gymnasts have successfully progressed through to the next stage of 2016 Olympic Games qualification from the 2015 World Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow.

Ryan Mullen grabbed an eighth place cycling time trial finish on a scorching hot day in Baku yesterday.

Irish cyclist Ryan Mullen has finished eighth in the individual men’s time trial at the European Games in Baku.

Andrzej Jezierski was Ireland’s best performer at day three of the European Games in Baku yesterday.

Aileen Reid missed out on an inaugural medal as the new European games launched in Baku over the weekend.

Fifteen-year old Rhys McClenaghan from Bangor in Co Down is one of Ireland’s rising gymnastic stars. A strong all-rounder with a particular flair for the pommel horse, he has set his sights on making the Irish team for the European Youth Olympics in Tbil

Irish people are apparently looking to the internet to answer to that age-old question "What is love?".

If you waited until evening and hurdled past the spoiler alerts on news and sports channels, you’d have had to wait until after 11pm to see Bolt make history

His Olympics experience may have been brief but gymnast Kieran Behan was able to keep things in perspective.

John Joe Nevin is through to the last 16 in the bantamweight division at the Olympic Games in London. The fifth seed wasn't troubled in his first round fight, beating Denmark’s Dennis Ceylan 21-6.

One of Ireland’s Olympic medal-winners is praying he can go further in the boxing ring at the London 2012 Games.

Kieran Behan continues his remarkable rise through the sport and tomorrow competes in the floor exercise final at the European Artistic Championships.

From once being in a wheelchair, Kieran Behan has come a long way to become Ireland’s second ever Olympic gymnast.

Even now, with his Olympic dream just six months from becoming reality, the legacy of Kieran Behan’s painful and traumatic journey from life-threatening injury and illness tolife-affirming achievement is all too evident.

Flip through the strategic plan put together by Gymnastics Ireland for the years 2009-2012 and there is no talk of qualifying competitors for Olympic Games, just the vague aspiration to improve international competition results across all disciplines.

WHEN word of Kieran Behan’s Olympic qualification filtered through on Wednesday, you struggled, inevitably, to recall other fine Irish gymnastic landmarks.

KIERAN BEHAN has become only the second Irish gymnast in history to qualify for an Olympic Games — an astonishing achievement given he was twice told he might never walk again.