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Paris 2024 Olympic Games - Day 7 - Rowing
Rowing and swimming to be best-funded sports in build-up to 2028 Olympic Games
Athletics gets a significant bump in its funding, rising from €841,666 in 2024 to €1.05m this year.

Wed, 26 Mar, 2025

Mona McSharry takes a selfie with fans 12/8/2024
Gold standard important but Irish sport's positive impact must be measured too 
In 2025, €27million will be invested in high performance sport, the highest level so far. Just to put that into context, in 2018 that figure was €14m.

Wed, 26 Mar, 2025

Imane Khelif,Angela Carini
Imane Khelif hits back at Donald Trump and targets Olympic title defence
Khelif said the US president's transgender policies do not concern her. 

Wed, 19 Mar, 2025

Rowing Ireland's Olympic Celebration & Awards Night
Dressed in gold: Irish rowers savour never-to-be-forgotten year at gala awards night
Rowing Ireland celebrates historic year at the Olympic celebration and annual awards night

Sun, 26 Jan, 2025

Kellie Harrington celebrates winning the gold medal with coaches Damian Kennedy and Zaur Antia 6/8/2024
S Cathal Dennehy: Paris was great but here's the sting in the tail...
One concern above others stands out from Sport Ireland's Paris Olympics review - the paucity of investment in coaching

Sat, 28 Dec, 2024

RTÉ Sports Awards 2024
Paul O'Donovan named RTÉ Sportsperson of the Year
Limerick swimmer Róisín Ní Riain was named Young Sportsperson of the Year.

Sun, 15 Dec, 2024

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S Paul Rouse: What does it mean to compete as an Olympic artist? 
A Waterford exhibition called “Muscles and Minds” features the work of artists who competed for Ireland in the Olympic Games between 1924 and 1948.

Fri, 22 Nov, 2024

Team Ireland Homecoming -Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Five things you may have missed from Budget 2025
With Budget 2025 now in the public domain after months of speculation, there are always measures that fall through the cracks.

Tue, 01 Oct, 2024

Rhys McClenaghan and Jack McMillan homecoming - Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Northern Ireland’s record-breaking Olympians to be celebrated at Belfast event
The region scooped four gold medals, a silver and two bronzes at the Paris Olympics, the most ever in a Games and the first gold since 1988

Wed, 18 Sep, 2024

Team Ireland Homecoming
Fintan McCarthy ready to tackle heavyweight division at LA Olympics
Lightweight rowing is done as an Olympic sport as of now. O’Donovan has already declared his intention to tackle the ‘heavies’ next time and McCarthy’s leaning in the same direction was confirmed at Dublin Castle.

Fri, 13 Sep, 2024

From Olympian to working with Barry Keoghan, Lanigan O'Keeffe on course in new career
S From Olympian to working with Barry Keoghan, Lanigan O'Keeffe on course in new career
Three years after being told his sporting career was over, Arthur Lanigan O'Keeffe is forging a reputation as a talented cinematographer. 

Wed, 11 Sep, 2024

Man accused of setting Ugandan Olympic athlete on fire dies of burns
Man accused of setting Ugandan Olympic athlete on fire dies of burns
Dickson Ndiema was admitted to the Moi Referral Hospital in the western city of Eldoret with burns covering 30% of his body

Tue, 10 Sep, 2024

Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei dies after petrol attack by boyfriend
Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei dies after petrol attack by boyfriend
Cheptegei’s partner, Dickson Ndiema, bought a jerrican of petrol, poured it on her and set her ablaze during a disagreement on Sunday

Thu, 05 Sep, 2024

Breaking - Olympic Games Paris 2024: Day 14
Raygun didn’t know whether to ‘hug or yell at’ Jimmy Fallon in wake of viral Paris Olympics performance
In an interview on Australian television, Rachael Gunn apologised to the breakdancing community after the criticism she had damaged the art form’s reputation

Wed, 04 Sep, 2024

Ugandan Olympic athlete set on fire by her boyfriend
Ugandan Olympic athlete set on fire by her boyfriend
Rebecca Cheptegei, a distance runner who finished 44th in the marathon at the 2024 Paris Olympics, was attacked in her house in western Trans Nzoia County

Tue, 03 Sep, 2024

Olympic rowing heroes O'Donovan and McCarthy celebrate success at Skibbereen homecoming
Olympic rowing heroes O'Donovan and McCarthy celebrate success at Skibbereen homecoming
After the pandemic prevented a public celebration of the duo’s 2021 Olympic gold in Tokyo, thousands of people lined the streets of Skibbereen on Sunday to celebrate their historic Olympic gold medal win in Paris almost a month ago

Sun, 01 Sep, 2024

New indoor velodrome to open its doors in Limerick by 2027
New indoor velodrome to open its doors in Limerick by 2027
The availability of two facilities will negate the need for Ireland’s international track cyclists to spend vast amounts of time training abroad.

Wed, 28 Aug, 2024

NATURE WATER QUALITY BIG JUMP EVENT
E.coli, diarrhoea and dead fish: Europe’s rivers have a sewage problem
It’s not just the Seine and the Thames. Across the continent, untreated waste that flows directly into rivers and lakes is making people sick and harming wildlife.

Wed, 28 Aug, 2024

ieExplains: Everything you need to know about the Paralympic Games
ieExplains: Everything you need to know about the Paralympic Games
More than 4,400 athletes from 154 countries are taking part in this year's Paralympic Games

Tue, 27 Aug, 2024

Rhasidat Adeleke 27/8/2024
More lifelong consequences can deter athletes from doping, insists Adeleke
Among the runners to make the Paris podium Adeleke missed out on, Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Naser — who had served a two-year ban after missing three doping tests inside a 12-month period

Tue, 27 Aug, 2024

Cork's local authorities promised financial backing if site identified for 50m swimming pool
Cork's local authorities promised financial backing if site identified for 50m swimming pool
Olympic-sized pool worth €1.1m in storage

Fri, 23 Aug, 2024

Fintan McCarthy and Paul O'Donovan celebrate 5/8/2024
Revealed: Here's when the homecoming for Skibbereen's Olympic rowers will take place
Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy, as well as fellow Olympians Aoife Casey and Emily Hegarty, will be welcomed home with an open-top bus parade

Tue, 20 Aug, 2024

Rhasidat Adeleke and Phil Healy after the race 10/8/2024
S Colin Sheridan: Adeleke's brilliance guarantees her nothing but the burden of her potential
It’s not easy to move grown-ups — this one anyway — unless it’s war or death or children crying. But Adeleke possesses a quintessence much greater than herself

Mon, 19 Aug, 2024

Team Ireland Homecoming -Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Let us build on how Olympic role models inspire sports participation
Research shows that young people who identify a sports star as a role model are significantly more active in the sport, can we expand on that process

Mon, 19 Aug, 2024

Team Ireland Paris 2024 Olympic Squad Homecoming
Highway to LA presents new challenges and chances for Olympics and Team Ireland
Huge progress has been made. The homecomings in Dublin and around the country were a joy to behold but this country is capable of more again. So much more.

Sat, 17 Aug, 2024

Paris 2024 Olympic Games - Day Eight
Olympic gold medalist Rhys McClenaghan says home town support ‘meant everything’ to him
On Friday evening, McClenaghan, along with other athletes from the borough were celebrated with a party in the town’s Conway Square

Fri, 16 Aug, 2024

Imane Khelif,Angela Carini
S Jennifer Horgan: Why do we pretend that biological sex can be easily categorised?
Olympic champion boxer Imane Khelif, who was the subject of a global gender eligibility row during her Olympic run, has named JK Rowling and Elon Musk in a cyberbullying lawsuit

Fri, 16 Aug, 2024

Paris 2024 Olympic Games - Day Fourteen
Viral breakdancer Raygun speaks out on ‘devastating hate’ after Olympics
Rachael Gunn drew mockery and criticism after her performance in the round robin stage of the B-girls breaking event

Thu, 15 Aug, 2024

Waterford Walls 2024
Mural of Olympics star Rhasidat Adeleke features in Waterford street art festival
The Adeleke tribute on Jenkins Lane was created by muralist JEKS, who is usually based in North Carolina

Wed, 14 Aug, 2024

Paris 2024 Olympic Games - Day Two
Dutch beach volleyball player who raped child breaks silence over Olympics
Steven van de Velde served 13 months in prison after his 2016 rape conviction in England

Wed, 14 Aug, 2024

BOXING-OLY-PARIS-2024
JK Rowling and Elon Musk named in Imane Khelif cyberbullying lawsuit
Algerian Olympic champion boxer files criminal complaint in France against X over alleged ‘cyber-harassment’.

Wed, 14 Aug, 2024

Daniel Wiffen Homecoming -Paris 2024 Olympic Games
S Olympics shows we must ensure our youth play as many sports as possible for as long as possible
A famous quote by the Jamaican bobsledder, Sanka Coffie, quote sums up the mood of the Irish nation in the afterglow of a mind-opening Olympics – “I am feeling very Olympic today.

Wed, 14 Aug, 2024

Paris 2024 Olympic Games - Day 15 - Athletics
Sarah Harte: Edna O’Brien has passed the baton on to other brave, brilliant women of Ireland
On the day Edna O'Brien was buried in Clare, four of our brightest and best stepped onto the track at the Stade de France and did Ireland proud at the highest level

Wed, 14 Aug, 2024

Team Ireland Paris 2024 Olympic Squad Homecoming
Every child in Ireland should be given €130 a year for sports and cultural activities, says Sinn Féin
Party says youth diversion plans like the Icelandic model have been used to divert people away from alcohol and drug misuse,

Tue, 13 Aug, 2024

Jordan Chiles medal inquiry: USA Gymnastics says arbitration panel won’t reconsider decision
Jordan Chiles medal inquiry: USA Gymnastics says arbitration panel won’t reconsider decision
USA Gymnastics says it will continue efforts to let Chiles keep the medal.

Tue, 13 Aug, 2024

Kellie Harrington celebrates winning a gold medal 6/8/2024
Kellie Harrington's gold medal fight was most watched Olympic event on RTÉ
The women's 400m final, in which Rhasidat Adeleke came fourth, was the second most watched Olympic event on RTÉ2.

Tue, 13 Aug, 2024

Paris 2024 Olympic Games - Day Thirteen
S Kieran Shannon: Basketball deserves its Olympic stage... as world gains ground on USA's best
The rest of the world again put it up to the NBA's superstars in Paris.

Tue, 13 Aug, 2024

Paris 2024 Olympic Games - Day Six
S From Haughey to Fowler to Kos, a green tint all over the global stage in Paris
The very spread and depth of Irish roots abroad meant strands were littered through the French capital.

Tue, 13 Aug, 2024

2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Shanghai - Day 3 Friday
S Fergus Finlay: Older age deserves to go hand in hand with human dignity
The generation that is experiencing dementia now is the generation that built this independent little country and left a legacy to be proud of

Tue, 13 Aug, 2024

Team Ireland Paris 2024 Olympic Squad Homecoming
S How each Team Ireland athlete fared at the Paris Olympics
Maurice Brosnan, Cathal Dennehy and Brendan O'Brien provide their expert opinion from what they witnessed at the Games.

Mon, 12 Aug, 2024

Team Ireland Homecoming -Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Kellie Harrington cries tears of joy after hero’s welcome on return to Dublin
Harrington cruised through the women’s lightweight final against Wenlu Yang to retain her Olympic title on Tuesday last week

Mon, 12 Aug, 2024

OLYMPIC HOMECOMING
'They gave us so much': Fans celebrate Ireland's Olympic heroes
There was the sense among those watching these incredible athletes at the homecoming on O’Connell Street in Dublin that this could be just a beginning for Irish sport

Mon, 12 Aug, 2024

Team Ireland Paris 2024 Olympic Squad Homecoming
Thousands turn out on O'Connell St to welcome Olympians home
Dublin singer Roisin O to play out the event with a stirring rendition of ‘Grace’.

Mon, 12 Aug, 2024

Team Ireland Paris 2024 Olympic Squad Homecoming
OCI President Sarah Keane says decision needs to be made on future of Irish boxing 
Ireland's participation in boxing at the next Olympics will depend on if Ireland will choose to go with the new World Boxing International Federation. 

Mon, 12 Aug, 2024

British man investigated for climbing Eiffel Tower on final day of Olympics
British man investigated for climbing Eiffel Tower on final day of Olympics
A British man, who was seen climbing the Eiffel Tower on the last day of the Paris Olympics, has been released from police custody but remains under investigation for trespassing at a historical site, French prosecutors said on Monday.

Mon, 12 Aug, 2024

Team GB Homecoming - Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Tom Daley announces retirement after taking Olympic medal tally to five in Paris
He revealed to British Vogue it was “the right time to call it a day” before he returned to the UK on Monday.

Mon, 12 Aug, 2024

Team Ireland Paris 2024 Olympic Squad Homecoming
Fintan McCarthy: Ireland rowing medallists likely to join forces for L.A Games
Meanwhile Mona McSharry has admitted she will take four months off before deciding her future and Daniel Wiffen backs his twin-brother to join him on the podium in four years' time.

Mon, 12 Aug, 2024

Daniel Wiffen with his gold and bronze medal 5/8/2024
Daniel Wiffen rushed to hospital after falling unwell before Olympics closing ceremony
Daniel Wiffen took to X to thank people for reaching out and speak on his disappointment of missing being flagbearer at the Closing ceremony.

Mon, 12 Aug, 2024

Zaur Antia tells Kellie Harrington to take a year break then come back for LA 2028
Zaur Antia tells Kellie Harrington to take a year break then come back for LA 2028
Kellie Harrington has said a number of times that this will be her last Olympics since winning her second gold medal.

Mon, 12 Aug, 2024

Team Ireland Homecoming -Paris 2024 Olympic Games
'We’re a mighty nation': Thousands welcome Olympic heroes back to Dublin 
Simon Harris said that the Irish team inspired children around Ireland

Mon, 12 Aug, 2024

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