Sinead Diver Runs Fastest Marathon Ever by Irish Woman
On Dec. 4th, Sinead Diver ran the Valencia marathon in 2:21:34— the fastest marathon time ever by an Irish woman. Remarkably, 45-year-old Diver only started running in 2010, when she was 33. The mother of two also works full-time. Diver was representing Australia in the event, so Catherina McKiernan still holds the Irish record (2:22:23) she set in 1998–but Diver’s …
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The Right Time to Move on to the Next Chapter: Dublin Star Lyndsey Davey Retires From Inter-County Football
Interview and article by Daire Walsh “From each session to each match, you just get that realisation that it’s the right thing for your body and probably at the stage in my life that I’m at, it’s probably the right time to move on to the next chapter.” When Dublin senior ladies football manager Mick Bohan sits down to finalise …
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First Woman to Referee Men’s World Cup Match, WNL Salaries Introduced: Weekly Roundup
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Grace Fisher
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December 6, 2022
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Week In Review
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Aine O'Gorman, Alannah McEvoy, Ann Marie McGlynn, Aoibhe Richardson, Catherina McKiernan, Ciara Mageean, Eilish Flanagan, European Cross-Country Championships, Honeysuckle, HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2022 in Dubai, Jessica Henessy, Karen Diaz Medina, Mary Mulhare, Michelle Finn, Neuza Back, Rachael Blackmore, Roisin Flanagan, Shamrock Rovers, Sinead Diver, Stephanie Frappart, Summer Lawless, USWNT, Valencia Marathon, WNL Salaries, Women's National League
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Best-Ever Finish for Ireland at Emirates Dubai 7s Team Ireland finished sixth overall in the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, the highest-ever finish for the squad. Ireland topped Pool C with three victories right out of the gate, beating Spain 21-7, Japan (31-24), and Fiji (24-17). The run of success ended with a 5-0 loss in the quarter-final when Ireland …
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Blackrock and Railway Union through to All-Ireland Final
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Grace Fisher
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December 5, 2022
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Rugby
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Aimee Clarke, Alice O'Dowd, Aoife Moore, Blackrock College, Chloe Pearse, Dannah O'Brien, Deirbhile Nic a Bhaird, Elise O’Byrne-White, Ella Durkan, Energia AIL Final, Energia AIL Semi-Finals, Galwegians, Jackie Shiels, Katie Whelan, Laura Feely, Lindsay Peat, Meabh Deely, Michelle Claffey, Molly Scuffil-McCabe, Niamh Briggs, Nicole Cronin, Nicole Fowley, Nikki Caughey, Rachel Griffey, Railway Union, Tatum Bird, Wicklow
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Blackrock College and defending champions Railway Union, the top two finishers in the table, will contest next Friday’s Energia All-Ireland League Women’s Division final. Fittingly, it was Blackrock’s inspirational captain Michelle Claffey who crashed over in the 64th minute to set up a repeat of last season’s decider in Donnybrook. UL Bohemians, whose only try saw Nicole Cronin jink over …
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2023 Golf Ireland Schedule Released
Golf Ireland launched the 2023 Championships programme on Friday December 2nd, heralding a number of significant changes for the forthcoming season. Following a High Performance Review, the AIG Irish Women’s Amateur Close Championship will be played over a streamlined format with two rounds of stroke play qualifying from which the top-16 players will advance to the championship match play rounds. …
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Get Your Tickets to the 2024 Olympics
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Grace Fisher
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December 5, 2022
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Olympics
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The long, complicated process of ticket sales has finally started for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Here’s everything you need to know about how to get your own tickets. Phase 1 of the Paris 2024 Ticketing Programme opened December 1st, meaning that fans have from now until Jan. 31, 2023 to register for the ticket lottery. This first phase is only …
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USWNT Earn More From Men’s Progression Than From Own Wins
The United States Women’s National Team has already earned $6.5 million from the men’s progression to the knockout stages of the 2022 Fifa World Cup– more than their total earnings for their own first-place finishes in both the 2014 and 2019 Women’s World Cups. This is one of the first major consequences of the equal pay Collective Bargaining Agreements agreed …
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Summer Lawless and Alannah McEvoy to join Aine O’Gorman in move to Shamrock Rovers
Underage Irish Internationals Summer Lawless and Alannah McEvoy will follow Peamount United clubmate Aine O’Gorman to the Shamrock Rovers’ new Women’s National League team for the 2023 season, the team announced last weekend and yesterday (Nov. 30th) respectively. Welcome to Rovers, @summerlawless05 👋 A new Number One for Ireland's Number One 🧤 Let's get to work 🤝#LawlessIsAHoop pic.twitter.com/YdYuC9O6aU — Shamrock …
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Stephanie Frappart to be First Woman to Referee Men’s World Cup Match
Stephanie Frappart will become the first woman to referee a men’s World Cup match at the Costa Rica-Germany game on Thursday Dec. 1st. The 38-year-old Frenchwoman’s team will be all female, with Brazilian Neuza Back and Mexican Karen Diaz Medina acting as assistant officials. “We know the pressure”, said Frappart before the tournament, “but I think we will not change …
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“You Need to Eat!”: Four Koncept Athletes Talk Body Image, Confidence, and What Keeps Them Motivated
“You were led to believe that the smaller, the lighter you were, the better you were going to be,” says Hannah Crymble, who trained in gymnastics as a child, but the weightlifter, who represented Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games this year, certainly hasn’t conformed to gymnastics’, or society’s, idealisation of thinness over strength for women. Neither have fellow Koncept …
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