Paralympics chief urges talks on funding and priorities as Ireland return from Paris Games

EARNED HER PLAUDITS: Katie-George Dunlevy of Ireland, left, with niece Catherine Cousins after winning silver in the women's B road race on day nine of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games at Clichy-sous-bois in Paris, France. Photo by Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

The Games are over. The medal count cannot climb any higher. And so the conversation switches to funding. Or rather, returns to funding.

Twenty-two of the Irish team on their way home from Paris this afternoon are in receipt of Sport Ireland funding under the international carding scheme. What that means is 13 of the Irish team that competed in Paris are not.