RTÉ Sport announces biggest and best Paralympics coverage yet
RTÉ Sport today (Thursday 19 August, 2021) announced details of its biggest and most comprehensive Paralympic Games coverage to date across TV, radio and online. Off the back of a hugely successful Tokyo 2020, RTÉ Sport will again bring Irish audiences all the action, reaction and analysis beginning on Tuesday 24 August across RTÉ. Daráine Mulvihill will […]
Orla Comerford
Orla started running with her club Raheny Shamrock when she was just six. She was just 18 when she made her Paralympics debut in Rio where she ran 12.81 seconds in her heat to qualify for the T13 100m final where she finished eighth. In 2017 she was sixth in the final of the World […]
Greta Streimikyte
GRETA STREIMIKYTE Hometown: Vilnius, Lithuania Coach: Classification: T13 Disability Group: Vision Impaired Tokyo will be Greta’s second Paralympic Games. She made her international debut in 2015 and followed it quickly with a European bronze medal in 2016. She was fourth in the T13 1500m final on her Paralympic debut in Rio in what was then […]
Jason Smyth
Hometown: Derry Coach: Classification: T13 Disability Group: Vision Impaired Jason is the fastest Paralympian of all-time and still holds the World and Paralympic records in T13 100m (10:46) and 200m (21.05), which he set at the London Paralympics in 2012. He won double T13 sprint gold on his Paralympic debut in Beijing 2008, retained them […]
Michael McKillop
This is Michael’s 16th season in the Irish vest and he has already won 12 medals at major championships. They include four Paralympic golds in his three Games to date; 800m in 2008, a 800m/1500m double in 2012 and 1500m gold in 2016 (in 4:12.11) when the 800m was removed from the programme. The first […]
Niamh McCarthy
Hometown: Cork Coach: Alison O’Riordan Classification: F41 Disability Group: Niamh was one of Ireland’s sensational ‘Rebel Treble’ of medal-winning discus throwers from Cork in Rio 2016, winning F41 discus silver on her Paralympic debut with her penultimate throw of 26.67m. That came less than three years after she was first identified through a Paralympics Ireland […]
Jordan Lee
Hometown: Killarney Coach: Classification: T47 Disability Group: Jordan, who was born with a foreshortened left arm, was a sporting ground-breaker even before he turned to Para athletics because, in his teens, he was the first one-handed player to ever represent their Country Nationally in the World, when he played for Ireland at age 15. A […]
Mary Fitzgerald
Hometown: Kilkenny Coach: John McCarthy Classification: F40 Disability Group: Mary first encountered throwing through an induction day with the Irish Wheelchair Association when she was 11 and immediately fell in love with it. She is a person of small stature and competed in the World Dwarf Games in Michigan in 2013. She was selected to […]
Patrick Monahan
PATRICK MONAHAN Hometown: Naas, Co Kildare Coach: Classification: Disability Group: Acquired A car accident in 2007 left Pat in the National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) for three months and a wheelchair user since but, since his first marathon, in Dublin, in 2013 which he completed in two hours and 38 minutes, he has become world-class. He […]
Patrick Flanagan’s Wheelchair Damaged
Irish Para Swimmer, Patrick Flanagan’s wheelchair sustained damage whilst being transported on a flights between Fuerteventura, Madrid and London Heathrow on August 13th. The flights, that were operated by Iberian Airlines left Fuerteventura on August 13th at 11:00 stopping in Madrid at 14:40 before continuing on to London Heathrow at 15:45 and landing on London […]
Team Ireland Departs for Paralympic Games
Team Ireland’s Para Athletics team assembled at Dublin Airport this morning to board Aer Lingus flight EI 154 on the first leg of their journey to Japan ahead of the Paralympic Games. Para Table Tennis player, Colin Judge joined the Para Athletics team as the last large departure for Team Ireland to the Paralympic Games. […]
Eight Athletes Named to Represent Ireland in Para Athletics
Paralympics Ireland have named a strong Para Athletics Team to represent Team Ireland at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. The world’s fastest Paralympian, Jason Smyth, will be the returning for his 4th Paralympic Games where he will hope to extend his amazing record of never having lost a competitive Para Athletics race. He will be […]
