Irish women living the dream and making more through a stunning 2025

It was an outstanding year for Irish women in sport in 2025.

YEAR TO REMEMBER: Kate O'Connor celebrates a clearance of 1.86m, a personal best, in the Women's Heptathlon High Jump event. Picture: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

Jenny Lehane had been eliminated from the Paris Olympics a full week by the time Kellie Harrington got into the ring at Roland Garros on the western fringes of the city and retained her title with a defeat of Yang Wenlu.

If the rest of the country lost its mind, Lehane’s thoughts were more considered. The Meath boxer came to a moment of realisation. The core of her ambition up to that point had been to qualify for the Games. The goal from then on would be to prosper at them.