6 Months to Go to Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games

Paralympics Ireland today celebrated the 6 Months To Go milestone to the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. On August 25th the Opening Ceremony for the Tokyo Paralympic Games will take place at the Olympic Stadium with the first athletes competing on Wednesday, August 26th.   Team Ireland will be part of that Opening Ceremony and […]

Cyclists Deliver World Championship Glory

Team Ireland competed against the World at the weekend when the Irish Para Cycling team took to the track at the UCI Para Cycling World Championships in Canada. The Irish team would have hoped for a positive performance at the championships but they delivered in spectacular fashion as three new World Championships medals were claimed […]

Grimes is Best of Irish at Para Cycling World Cup

It was a long trip to Canada for the Irish Para Cycling team as they competed in the UCI Paracycling Road World Cup at Baie Comeau. A strong Irish team competed at the event including Declan Slevin, Ronan Grimes, Chris Burns, Gary O’Reilly and the tandem duo of Damien Vereker and Paul Forristal. It was […]

Irish Team Set to Depart for Para Cycling World Cup in Canada

The Irish Team will depart tomorrow for the Para Cycling World Cup in Canada. The 6 person team will be gaining some extra preparation for the Road World Championships that take place in September. The team that is competing over the course of the weekend includes Declan Slevin, Ronan Grimes, Chris Burns, Damien Vereker & […]

Grimes Claims Para Cycling World Track Silver Medal for Ireland

IRELAND’S Ronan Grimes has won Silver in the MC4 Scratch Race at the Para-cycling World Championships in Apeldoorn on St Patrick’s Day.   The 30-year-old from Athenry in Galway had been inching closer to a World Medal throughout the Championships at the Omnisport Arena, as had the whole of the Irish team, with Katie-George Dunlevy […]

Team Ireland Named for Para Cycling Road World Championships

The Cycling Ireland team has been announced for the UCI 2018 Para-cycling Road World Championships in Maniago, Italy from the 2nd – 5th August. Six bikes will compete across twelve events over the four days of action. Reigning World Champions in the Women’s B Tandem Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal, will be competing in the […]

Five Irish Bikes Named for Para-cycling Track Worlds

Five bikes will compete at the UCI 2018 Para-cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from the 22-25 March. Three tandems and two solo bikes will compete in fourteen events over the four days of competition. The championships take place in the Velódromo Municipal do Rio where Eoghan Clifford won a Paralympic bronze […]