Irish track and field star Kate O'Connor is the benchmark for her family of athletes, says her proud dad Michael. Kate ...

EFREM Gidey continued his single-handed assault on the Irish men’s distance records when he smashed the 10,000m track time in ...

“I wish to congratulate our athletes for their fantastic success at the Special Olympics World Winter Games. It was an historic games for Ireland with Caolan McConville becoming the first Irish ...

Lord Coe suffered a crushing defeat in his bid to become president of the International Olympic Committee, with Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry routing her six rivals in the first round of voting to ...

Conor McGregor will run for the Irish presidency in elections later this year, the controversial former fighter said on Thursday, as he announced his candidacy for the largely ceremonial role on ...

A new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been elected. Kirsty Coventry, the two-time Olympic gold medallist and Zimbabwe sports minister, has become the first woman and ...

Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and became the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in world sports. "It is a ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, and the 10th president overall of the organization that was founded in 1894. IOC members ...

BOXING has been reinstated as an Olympic sport for the Los Angeles Olympics ... An emergency general meeting of the Irish Athletic Boxing Association (IABA) will be held next month, and clubs ...

While the Irish Amateur Boxing Association is not currently a member of World Boxing – a prerequisite for participation in the LA Olympics – the organisation said it will submit a ‘letter of ...

You can check out at any time. More info Irish boxers have been handed a huge boost with news that boxing will remain on the Olympic programme for the Los Angeles Games in 2028. The future of ...