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Tokyo 2020 Olympics

Kellie Harrington talks revolution, European Championships and Grainne Walsh
Kellie Harrington
Boxer's plans for inside the ropes are on hold because there are more important things going in her life
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Former FAI CEO candidate makes her move to head up an Irish sport - but it is not to soccer
FAI
Cricket Ireland appoint first female CEO of an International Cricket Council (ICC) Full Member nation
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Model sportsman - how fake bronze turned to Olympic and World Championship bronze for Irish rowing hero Philip Doyle
Olympic Games
He swapped his bronzed tan for Olympic bronze in Paris 2024 and at the World Championships last weekend in Shanghai
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Mick Conlan: Around the world in ELEVEN awesome, controversial, courage-laden, epic, often-hilarious, tempestuous and zany fights
Michael Conlan
London, Rio, New York, Falls Road and now Dublin for Conlan on the roller-coaster ride of a lifetime
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Olympic medallist decides on his future as 'hunger' to make amends on Irish boxers' agenda
Olympic Games
Team Ireland boxers are in Liverpool for the inaugural World Boxing World Championship
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Kellie Harrington back training with Irish boxing team but gives definitive answer on her future
Kellie Harrington
"It's hilarious because then once you tell someone you're back training with the Irish team everyone is going 'Kellie's going pro' or 'Kellie's doing the next Olympics."
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Olympic boxing hero Kellie Harrington reveals her dream of playing with U2
News
Tells Dublin's Nollaig na mBan festival: "My wife Mandy got me a surprise for Christmas, she said 'open the door', I opened the door and there was an electric drum set,"
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Where is Olympic rower Gary O'Donovan now as brother Paul wins gold at Paris 2024
Cork
The O'Donovan brothers became national treasures at Rio 2016 when they simply said they won their silver medal in rowing by "pulling like a dog" but Paul now has a different partner
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Five ring master Zaura Antia plotting more Olympic glory with his Ireland boxers
Boxing
"You know, everybody thinks about this," said the IABA's high performance head coach. "Experience tells me that when we achieved something, we would never talk about medals"
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They were labelled a laughing stock - now they are Ireland 2024 Olympic medal contenders
Other Sport
Ireland Sevens rugby has come a long way in a short time
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Ross Corrigan dreams of Olympics homecoming with his cousin Leona Maguire
Leona Maguire
The Irish rower, along with fellow Enniskillen man Nathan Timoney, qualified the men's pair boat for Paris 2024 at the recent World Championships
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Olympic boxing clings to hope for LA 2028 reprieve
Olympic Games
However it has been confirmed that rowers Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy will have to explore a different route to glory after the Paris Games next year
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Kellie Harrington pens emotional post as she remembers two years since gold medal win at Tokyo Olympics
Boxing
It is two years to the day since Kellie Harrington captured gold in Tokyo and the Dubliner penned an emotional post.
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Five best moments from Megan Rapinoe's legendary career
Soccer
Megan Rapinoe has enjoyed an illustrious career starring for club OL Reign and the USWNT, winning two Women's World Cup - but she announced her retirement later this year
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Emmet Brennan fight LIVE stream and start time as he faces Angel Emilov in professional debut
Emmet Brennan
The Dubliner, who fought for Ireland at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, faces Bulgarian Angel Emilov
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International Boxing Association makes 'fascist Germany' reference after Olympic expulsion
International Olympic Committee (IOC)
The International Olympic Committee voted unanimously to strip the International Boxing Association of its status, sparking fury and eye-catching comparisons from the organisation
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Emmet Brennan ready for professional ranks as he aims to put post-Olympics struggles behind him
Emmet Brennan
The Dubliner achieved a lifelong dream by fighting at the Olympic Games in July 2021, but it has been anything but a smooth road for the proud North Strand man since
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Daniel Wiffen on a twin track to Olympic glory at Paris 2024
Other Sport
'The others are probably looking at me, I'm 21-years-old, they're all 25-years-old, I'm the young guy on the stage dropping all these PBs, so they're probably wondering, 'Gee, how fast am I going to have to go to beat him?'
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Irish Olympian Emmet Brennan details alcohol battle as he celebrates being one year sober
Emmet Brennan
Emmet Brennan has been sober for one year
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'The longest ten seconds' Aidan Walsh on his Olympic Boxing bronze medal at the Tokyo games
Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Walsh became just the 16th Irish person to win an Olympic boxing medal at the Tokyo games.
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Katie Taylor homecoming: Kellie Harrington would love to fight on 3Arena card
Kellie Harrington
Tokyo gold medallist Harrington, who hails from nearby Portland Row, says she would jump at the chance but doubts it will happen
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Double world champ Sanita Puspure on how she came back from her Tokyo heartbreak
London 2012 Olympics
The 40-year-old won bronze in this year's Worlds after contemplating retirement when her third Olympics ended without a podium finish in 2021, and the chance to row in the Paris Games in 2024 is on her mind
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Paddy Barnes pens letter to IOC chiefs in bid to get Boxing re-instated for the LA Olympics
Paddy Barnes
The two-time Olympic bronze medallist is dispatching his words to federations worldwide, and to top stars such as Katie Taylor and Claressa Shields, to gain support
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'It flicked a switch' - Rhys McClenaghan on breaking down when announced as world champion
Sport Ireland
Ireland's first ever Worlds gold medallist in gymnastic says his triumph is on a par with Olympic glory and added: 'I'm the person to beat and people are certainly going to aim for that'
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