Bronze Tuesday: Comerford and Ní Riain win medals for Ireland at Paralympics

They are Ireland's third and fourth medals of the Games.

MEDALLISTS: Ireland's Orla Comerford celebrates winning T13 100m bronze; Ireland's Róisín Ní Riain on her way to winning bronze in the S13 200m medley. Pictures: Sportsfile.

Ireland collected two medals in the first five days of these Paralympic Games. Then in a five-minute spell on Tuesday evening, they collected two more. Two bronze to go with the earlier won two silver.

Five minutes after Roísín Ní Riain stormed to third in the SM13 200m individual medley at the La Défense Arena, Orla Comerford broke the 12-second barrier for the second time in her career to win bronze in the T13 100m final.