Winners revealed at the OCS Irish Paralympic Awards tonight
Orla Barry receives surprise World Championship Medal presentation. The success of Team Ireland at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games was celebrated by one and all at a Gala Awards ceremony in The Ballsbridge Hotel tonight. Double medal winning cyclists Eoghan Clifford, Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal claimed the Outstanding Male and Female Awards on the […]
Ireland’s Paralympians set to celebrate Rio success at the 2016 OCS Irish Paralympic Awards tonight in Dublin
Minister Patrick O’Donovan to present awards for outstanding performances at the Games Athletes, coaches, sponsors and supporters of the 2016 Irish Paralympic Team gather in the Ballsbridge Hotel this evening for the 2016 OCS Irish Paralympic Awards Ceremony. The black tie event, proudly sponsored by OCS Ireland will duly recognise the achievements of the 2016 […]
OCS Irish Paralympic Awards on December 2nd
Check out some of the style from the OCS Irish Paralympic Awards held in the Ballsbridge hotel on December 2nd. Congratulations to all the winners on the night, if you missed it you can see who won here Football Team Leader Barry Ferguson with his wife Sarah Pictured left to right, Orla Barry, Lorraine Regan, […]
President hosts reception for Paralympic team at Áras an Uachtárain
President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina kindly hosted a reception at Áras an Uachtárain today for the team and all the support staff to celebrate their achievements at the Games. It was the first time the vast majority of the team got together since their return from Rio and no better occasion for […]
Soaring above the ordinary in Rio 2016 – A reflection on the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games
THEY love their kites in Rio de Janeiro. Not those huge, mass-produced garish ones but tiny, unobtrusive diamonds that catch the light and your eye sometimes as they swoop like swallows above the urban sprawl of a maddeningly contradictory city. In a way those kites were the perfect metaphor for the 2016 Paralympics. Para athletes […]
Irish Paralympic team homecoming set for Dublin Airport tomorrow
Ireland’s 48 strong Rio 2016 Paralympic team wave goodbye to the athletes’ village today and begin their journey homeward with eleven medals, and a host of lifetime best performances. The team is scheduled to touch down in Dublin Airport just after midday tomorrow (Wednesday 21st September) and make their way to the Arrivals Hall […]
Why the F-Word means so much more in Paralympic sport
WHEN you go to an Olympic Games you hear an awful lot about the F-word.But sometimes it feels like the ‘Olympic family’ is just a fancy name for the sponsors and the folks in the logoed blazers who get ferries around in courtesy cars while everyone else puts up with athlete-unfriendly schedules and convoluted transport […]
Patrick Monahan finishes 16th in Marathon to round off successful Rio 2016 for Ireland
Ireland’s final competitor in Rio, wheelchair racer Patrick Monahan, found the searing 32 degree heat around Copacabana Beach too hot to handle in the T54 marathon, finishing in 16th place in one hour, 40 minutes and 26 seconds, over 10 minutes slower than his personal best. However several competitors dropped out before the half-way mark […]
Bronze for Noelle Lenihan in Discus final brings Team Ireland’s medal tally to 11 at Rio 2016
Cork teenager Noelle Lenihan took Ireland’s medal tally at the Paralympic Games in Rio to 11 with a bronze medal in the F38 Discus final this evening. The 16-year-old from Charleville was tipped to do well on her Paralympic debut after winning World silver and European Gold in the last 12 months, securing both with […]
Dunlevy & McCrystal scoop Road Race silver at Rio 2016
Ireland’s Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal will be celebrating once more this afternoon, having won their second medal of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, this time in the Women’s Tandem Road Race, finishing strong to take silver. The talented duo, who stormed home to Time Trial gold on Wednesday, put in a committed and determined […]
Sailors struggle on a difficult day in Rio while Keane finishes eighth in Freestyle final
The Irish Sonar sailing crew and swimmer Ellen Keane were in action for Team Ireland at the Paralympic Games in Rio this evening. For the sailing team – who were competing in Races 9 and 10 – it was another difficult day on the water. They had been hoping to improve on their position going […]
Fifth for Clifford in sprint finish while Keane swims PB to qualify for final
Day nine is well underway for team Ireland at Rio 2016, with cyclists Eoghan Clifford and Colin Lynch first up on the road earlier for the C1-C3 Road Race. Clifford; who won gold in the Time Trial on Wednesday was one of the top seeds going into the race, which incorporated riders from the Men’s […]
