Former international athlete David Gillick says nurturing is at the heart of Irish sport; for Team Ireland’s Jordan Conroy the sense of inclusion joining Tullamore Rugby Club gave him was life changing
A century after athletes first represented the Irish Free State at the Olympic Games in Paris, the largest and most ambitious Team Ireland travels to the French capital. The intervening 100 years have seen remarkable achievements by Irish sportspeople
Since first competing at Paris in 1924, Irish athletes have gone from strength to strength. More than 120 Olympic hopefuls will bring the tricolour back to the French capital at the games this month
We tend to focus on the fully formed Olympic athlete ready to compete on the world stage – but their back stories, challenges and life outside sport helped get them there
Waterford Gallery of Art will host an exhibition of artists who competed in the Olympics
Laura Weber designed the collection with the centenary of Ireland’s Olympic debut in mind
Many of Ireland’s Olympic athletes have had to balance college and working lives with intense training and competitive regimes
Barry McCall on the 11 gold medals won by Team Ireland over a hundred years
Co Down athlete Ciara Mageean, gold medal winner at the European Championships last month, talks about the community she describes as her extended family
Initiatives to keep young people involved in sport are bearing fruit, though a notable gender gap persists
The lead-up to the Olympics means long hours of training for women’s lightweight double sculls rower Zoe Hyde – but pizza and Netflix play their part too, writes John Daly
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