'Ireland will be an 8-10 medal-winning country within the next two Olympic cycles'

Danielle Hill competing in the 100m backstroke at the Sport Ireland National Aquatic Centre at the Sport Ireland Campus where she recorded a time to qualify for the Olympics in Tokyo. Picture: David Kiberd/Sportsfile

For a nation that won two medals at the last Olympics, this certainly seems ambitious. But nonetheless it was there, front and centre of the listed targets in Sport Ireland’s high-performance strategy 2021-2032, which was unveiled yesterday.

“Ireland will be an 8-10 medal-winning country within the next two Olympic cycles,” it states, and a “12-16 medal-winning country” over the next two Paralympic cycles.