At the London Olympic Games in 1908 Irish-born athletes won 33 medals. In athletics Irish-born athletes won five golds—hammer, 200m sprint, triple jump (then known as the ‘hop, step and jump’), discus and discus (Greek-style). Silver medals were won in the shot-put, the hammer and the high jump, and bronze medals in the 100m sprint, … Read more
When hammer-thrower Pat O’Callaghan returned from Amsterdam in 1928 as the first Olympic champion from an Irish state, he declared: ‘I am glad of my victory, not of the victory itself, but for the fact that the world has been shown that Ireland has a flag, that Ireland has a national anthem, and in fact that … Read more
(in the order in which they are mentioned)National Athletics and Cycling Association of Ireland (NACA), founded in 1923 as an all-Ireland body.International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF), the international athletics organisation founded in Stockholm in 1912.Irish Amateur Athletics Association (IAAA), founded in 1885 as an offshoot of the English AAA. GAA Athletics Council, founded in 1906.Irish Cycling … Read more
Mexico 71 Ireland 9 Iran 49 Ireland 22 Cuba 88 Ireland 25 France 73 Ireland 14 Great Britain 46 Ireland 21 Switzerland 55 Ireland 12
Irish basketball panel for 1948 Olympic Games Lt Paddy Crehan Eastern Command Air Corps, GormanstownSgt Christy Walsh Eastern Command McKee BarracksLt Donal O’Donovan Curragh Command Curragh CampLt James Flynn Curragh Command Curragh CampLt Frank O’Connor Western Command Custume Barracks, AthloneSgt Bill Jackson Western Command Custume Barracks, AthlonePte Tommy Keenan Western Command Custume Barracks, AthloneSgt … Read more