Clifford takes Gold at the UCI Paracycling Road World Championships
Some great results on the first day of the UCI Paracycling Road World Championships yesterday A ninth place finish for Colin Lynch in the MC2 Time Trial, fifth place finish for Katie George Dunleavy & Pilot Eve McCrystal in the WB Time Trial and of course the fantastic Gold place finish for Eoghan Clifford in […]
Irish Paracycling Squad head to World Championships in Switzerland
The Irish team for the Paracycling World Road Championships heads to Switzerland this week buoyed with confidence after a successful World Road Cup campaign.
Irish swim team to return home this evening with two World bronze medals
The six strong Irish swim team return home this evening from the Paralympic Swimming World Championships in Glasgow with two bronze medals, won by Darragh McDonald in the 400m Freestyle on Monday last, and Ellen Keane in the 200m Individual Medley last night. The team return to Dublin Airport on flight EI3227, due to arrive […]
Great Irish performances at the inaugural European Paralympic Committee Youth Games in Croatia
The weekend saw four athletes from Ireland compete in swimming and athletics events in the inaugural European Paralympic Committee Youth Games in Varazdin, Croatia. Friday started the event well with some fantastic performances in both Athletics and Swimming, Conor McBride ran a personal best in both his 100m finishing in 4th place and the 200m […]
Bronze for Ellen Keane on final day of Paralympic Swimming World Championships
Ellen Keane ensured the Irish team finished the Paralympic Swimming World Championships on a real high tonight setting a new lifetime best to win bronze in the 200m Individual Medley final (SM9). Nicole Turner and James Scully both set new lifetime bests finishing seventh and eighth in their respective finals.
Three Irish swimmers into finals at Paralympic Swimming World Championships
On the closing day of competition at the Paralympic Swimming World Championships in Glasgow three of Ireland’s four swimmers in action have qualified for finals in their respective events. Nicole Turner, Ellen Keane and James Scully will all be racing tonight, with Keane and Turner setting new lifetime bests in their heats.
New lifetime best for Ailbhe Kelly in final at Paralympic Swimming World Championships
On the penultimate day of competition at the Paralympic Swimming World Championships in Glasgow this evening Ireland’s Ailbhe Kelly set a new lifetime best of 1:27.24 finishing eighth in the final of the S8 Women’s 100m Backstroke.
Ailbhe Kelly through to final at Paralympic Swimming World Championships
On the penultimate day of competition at the Paralympic Swimming World Championships in Glasgow this morning there were just two Irish swimmers in action. Sixteen year old Ailbhe Kelly swam impressively to place fifth in her S8 100m Backstroke heat and qualify for her first world championship final at 6.58pm this evening. Kelly, who is […]
Two more lifetime best swims from Turner and Scully in finals at Paralympic Swimming World Championships
All three Irish swimmers in action at the Paralympic Swimming World Championships in Glasgow this evening finished eighth in their respective finals, with James Scully and Nicole Turner posting new lifetime bests in the process. In the final of the SM6 200m Individual Medley Nicole Turner shaved almost half a second off the massive best […]
Three Irish athletes into finals at Paralympic Swimming World Championships
In the busiest day so far for the Irish team at the Paralympic Swimming World Championships three of the five swimmers in action qualified for tonight’s final, with lifetime best times also for three of them. Continuing an outstanding debut Nicole Turner swam an enormous lifetime best in the heats of the SM6 200m Individual […]
Team Ireland ready for the inaugural European Paralympic Committee Youth Games in Varazdin, Croatia
Yesterday the team of seven left for Croatia for the inaugural European Paralympic Committee Youth Games in Varazdin taking place over this coming weekend. The team travelling was team manager Niamh McDonnell, swim Coach Matthew Coward, athletics Coach Tara Cloney, athletics athlete Conor McBride and swimmers Patrick Flanagan, Tom Maher and Adam Johnson. CKDDqRnWgAAdaiQ The […]
Turner sixth in 50m Freestyle final at Paralympic Swimming World Championships
Irish teenager Nicole Turner swam superbly to finish sixth in the S6 50m Freestyle Final at the Paralympic Swimming World Championships in Glasgow this evening. In a final that was won in a new world record time of 34.14 by Yelyzaveta Mereshko of Ukraine, the thirteen year old, from Portarlington in County Laois, swam just […]
