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06/08/2024

Our Olympic Champion. Congrats Kelllie Harrington....

29/07/2024

Magnificent Mona Wins Bronze👏👏👏🥉

05/08/2023

12/07/2023

Would ya look at that it’s today we are celebrating Rhasidat Adeleke the first Irish woman to break the 50-second barrier in the 400 metres.

In 2019, Rhasidat claimed the 100 m / 200 m sprint double at the European Youth Olympic Festival.

In 2021, at the age of 18, Rhasidat won her first senior national outdoor title followed by winning the 100 m / 200 m sprint double at the European U20 Championships, the first women’s sprint double at these championships since 2011. That same year, she took up a scholarship with the University of Texas at Austin and competed in the US Collegiate Indoor Championships.

In 2022 she placed fifth in the 400 metres final at the European Championships, setting an Irish record of 50.53 seconds

At the age of 20 she lowered her own national indoor 200 m record with a world-leading time of 22.52 s, the fastest time by a European woman since 2003, at the Martin Luther King Invitational. At the UNM Collegiate Classic also in Albuquerque, she set a new Irish indoor record in the 400 m with a world-leading 50.45 s, the fastest time in history indoors or out by an Irish woman.

In February 2023 at the Big 12 Indoor Championships, breaking the NCAA record and putting her 14th on the respective world all-time list.The following month, she ran 50.45 s at the NCCA Indoors final, earning the silver medal to become the first Irish athlete to win a medal in an NCAA sprint event. She picked up a second silver just one hour later, anchoring the Texas women's 4 × 400 m relay.
She also became becoming the first Irish woman to break the 50-second barrier at the
In June 2023 she again lowered her national record over 400 m to 49.20 s to take gold in the final, having earlier taken gold as part of the Texas quartet that won the 4 X 100 m relay.

Rhasidat is amazing athlete and a truly inspirational woman!

01/07/2023

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Ireland's opener against Australia has officially completely SOLD OUT!

The match will take place in Stadium Australia on July 20th.

19/06/2023

She's done it again! 🏆️

Leona Maguire has won her SECOND LPGA title after winning the Meijer LPGA Classic with some majestic golf. 🏌🏽‍♀️

🏆️ February 2022 - LPGA Drive On Championship
🏆️ June 2023 - Meijer LPGA Classic

Last year she became the FIRST Irish woman to win an LPGA tour title. Now, she's only gone and backed it up again with another 💪🏼 🇮🇪

27/05/2023

IRISH RECORD 🇮🇪 👏🏼

Ciara Mageean has broken Louise Shanahan’s 800m Irish Record of 1:59.42 after running 1.59.27 in Manchester today! 🏃🏼‍♀️

In 2020, Mageean became the first Irish woman to go under 2 minutes when she broke Rose-Ann Galligan’s record set in 2013.

Legend 💪🏼

14/02/2023

22/11/2022

This may not be a sporting story but a story of self-worth regardless of how you look.

11/10/2022

History is made for the FAIreland Senior FAI Women team. Going to the World Cup. Congrats Girls

25/09/2022

Sanita Puspure and Zoe Hyde have won bronze in the women's double sculls at the World Rowing Championships in Racice, Czech Republic.

19/09/2022

Maguire, 27, arrives home in Ireland having already secured her maiden LPGA Tour victory and a career-best major finish of a tie for fourth in last month’s AIG Women’s Open

04/09/2022

💥💥 3:56.63 💥💥

New Irish 1500m Record 🇮🇪

And a Diamond League win.

Pinch me, am I dreaming!

05/08/2022

The IRFU have officially confirmed it will offer 43 professional contracts to Ireland women's 15s and 7s players next season.

05/08/2022

At the Camogie All Ireland final this year on 7th August, the 1995 and 1997 winning team are being honoured. Its the 25 year anniversary of the '97 win.

Eithne Fiztpatrick (Eithne Duggan as she was known then) played with these teams so she'll be in Croke Park on the day to be honoured with her teammates.

Eithne went on to win two more All Ireland titles, in 1998 and 2000, (team captain in 1998).

Kinsale Gaa would like to congratulate Eithne on this special occasion. We are very proud and honoured to have this Bishopstown Club native to be such an active member in our club.
Eithne was one of the founding meembers of Kinsale camogie Club, she played until 2021.
Eithne now coaches the Minor Boys Team.
Bishopstown Camogie Club Cork Camogie

03/08/2022

The front paper of the Bucks Herald in 1998 has a picture of a young Ellen White, who had been banned from playing in a boys football league.

24 years later, she has 113 England caps, the record for most goals scored and a European Championship winners medal.

She never gave up 🙌

13/07/2022

I'm going to sign off for the day with this image of British Angela Copson as she cruised to victory in the women's , 75-79 year old age group, here at the WMA - World Masters Athletics this afternoon. Every time you see Angela enter the track, you wait for the sound of breaking. She has just gone up to the 75+ age group, so it's getting a bit deafening at the moment. Her time was 6:26.74mins: a world record. Earlier in the week she ran the in 3:7.19: a world record. She also ran the in 22:53.55: yep, crash, that's the sound of another breaking. You run out of superlatives to describe her. Angi, you're amazing and we salute you🏆👏👏👏

13/07/2022

13/07/2022

“When she applied to run in the Boston Marathon in 1966 they rejected her saying: “Women are not physiologically able to run a marathon, and we can’t take the liability.”

Then exactly 50 years ago today, on the day of the marathon, Bobbi Gibb hid in the bushes and waited for the race to begin. When about half of the runners had gone past she jumped in.

She wore her brother’s Bermuda shorts, a pair of boy’s sneakers, a bathing suit, and a sweatshirt. As she took off into the swarm of runners, Gibb started to feel overheated, but she didn’t remove her hoodie. “I knew if they saw me, they were going to try to stop me,” she said. “I even thought I might be arrested.”

It didn’t take long for male runners in Gibb’s vicinity to realize that she was not another man. Gibb expected them to shoulder her off the road, or call out to the police. Instead, the other runners told her that if anyone tried to interfere with her race, they would put a stop to it. Finally feeling secure and assured, Gibb took off her sweatshirt.

As soon as it became clear that there was a woman running in the marathon, the crowd erupted—not with anger or righteousness, but with pure joy, she recalled. Men cheered. Women cried.

By the time she reached Wellesley College, the news of her run had spread, and the female students were waiting for her, jumping and screaming. The governor of Massachusetts met her at the finish line and shook her hand. The first woman to ever run the marathon had finished in the top third.”

22/04/2022

This is what sport is all about...

07/04/2022

30/03/2022

Mayo's Cora Staunton is among the 40 strong nominations for the 2022 AFLW All Australian squad, which were announced overnight. Players from all 14 AFLW teams have been selected, with Melbourne Football Club leading club representation in the nominations with seven players named. The Carna

21/03/2022

🏆🏆 Rachael Blackmore! The first jockey - male or female - to get her hands on the Champion Hurdle trophy and Gold Cup at the same Cheltenham Festival since Sir AP McCoy back in 1997!

“You can never dream a dream too big” Rachael Blackmore.. what an athlete 🐎 what an inspiration 🏆 🚀🏇

19/03/2022

First woman to be Champion jockey at Cheltenham ✔️
First female jockey to win Grand National✔️
And now... first woman to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup✔️

'I feel so feckin' lucky,' Rachael Blackmore said after winning the Gold Cup on A Plus T**d. Nothing lucky about it!

15/03/2022

What a legend Rachel Blackmore

Honeysuckle successfully defended her title when becoming the first mare to win a second Champion Hurdle on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival.

11/03/2022

Cora Staunton is some athlete...

Cora Staunton let everyone know that she is showing no signs of slowing down as she kicked four goals in a colossal performance this morning. The Carnacon native was instrumental for the Greater Western Sydney Giants as they defeated Geelong 53-35. Coming into the match with 14 goals for the s

25/02/2022

Irish racing driver Alyx Coby has made a winning start to her professional career, having claimed a double victory on her GT debut weekend at Road Atlanta in Georgia, USA. The 17 year old from Newbridge, Co Kildare was signed up by top US GT team Random Vandals Racing in 2021 to provide an opportuni...

06/02/2022

Huge, huge congratulations to Leona Maguire after her first ever LPGA victory ☘️💚

Beat a stellar field and played class all week