PICS: Crowds turn out to welcome Paralympic heroes home to Dublin

"The thing is when we are out in Rio it's hard to know what's going on, but it's great to see there has been huge support."

Ireland's 48-strong Paralympics team arrived to a heroes welcome as over 1,000 supporters turned out at Terminal 1 in Dublin Airport this lunchtime, with 11 medals in tow, writes Cóilín Duffy at Dublin Airport.

They're almost home...see you at Dublin Airport T1 Arrivals at 1pm to give them a great welcome #TeamIreland 🇮🇪 pic.twitter.com/Qe7y0r9fO1

— Paralympics Ireland (@ParalympicsIRE) September 21, 2016