Mona McSharry Through to World Final with Olympic Qualification Time and New Irish Record

Mona McSharry lit up the Fukuoka World Championships pool this morning securing an Olympic Qualification Time for Paris 2024 in the 100m Breaststroke Heats. The Tokyo Olympic Finalist showed her class with a win in the penultimate heat to progress to this evening’s semi-final as the second fastest qualifier in 1:05.55. The time is the Sligo native’s first venture inside …

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Ireland And Australia Women’s Cricket Teams Pay Surprise Visit To Kid’s Camp At Croke Park

Credit: Seb Daly (Sportsfile) Stars from the World Cup-winning Australia Women’s cricket team and Ireland Women’s cricket team paid a surprise visit to Croke Park today, where they inspired young cricket and camogie players to follow their dream of playing professional cricket for Ireland. The two teams are set to face each other in a three-match one-day international (ODI) series which gets …

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Top 17 in the World for Clare Cryan

Photo by Ian MacNicol/Sportsfile Clare Cryan showed excellent form at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan today finishing seventeenth in the World, following the preliminary and semi-final rounds of the 3m Springboard. Cryan put on a brilliant display in this morning’s preliminaries, finishing in ninth place overall against a strong field of fifty divers. Scoring 289.55 from five dives, …

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Ireland V Australia: FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 Match Preview

The wait is finally over! The co-opening game of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 will see the Ireland Women’s National Team make their major tournament debut. As 11 players in green jerseys take to the pitch, spectators in the 82,500-capacity Stadium Australia, TV viewers from nations all around the world and those gathered at watch parties at grassroots clubs …

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FIFA Creates First Content Hub On TikTok For Women’s World Cup

The FIFA Women’s World Cup Hub on TikTok will bring fans closer to the action, featuring exciting content from FIFA, official broadcasters, participating teams, and players. This is the first official collaboration between FIFA and TikTok, and the first time FIFA has worked with an entertainment platform to produce and tailor content for the Women’s World Cup. Exclusive behind-the-scenes footage …

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McGing Bows Out of World Championships in Platform Preliminaries

Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile Ireland’s Ciara McGing has ended her World Championships in the preliminary stages of the 10M Platform in Fukuoka, Japan this morning. The 22-year-old completed the preliminaries on 244.90 in 28th place, her highest score coming for her opening dive, an inward 2 ½ somersaults with 56 points. Speaking after her event McGing commented “I’m obviously disappointed with …

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Ireland Women’s Squad Named For Upcoming Australia Series

Photo Cred: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile A 14-player Ireland Women’s squad has been named for the eagerly-anticipated one-day international series against world champions, Australia – a series set to take place at Clontarf Cricket Club from 23-28 July 2023. The squad features a return to senior action for Jane Maguire – after recovering from injury. Jane joins her younger sister Aimee, making …

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Irish Banshees Win AFL Euro Cup Fourth Year In A Row

Last weekend, the Irish AFL teams, the Banshees and the Warriors, travelled to Kiel in Germany to compete in the AFL Euro Cup. This is a 9-a-side, single-day tournament where all of the top national teams of Europe face off against one another to battle for this prestigious title. The Banshees, who have been the dominant force in the women’s …

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Vodafone Women’s Rugby Inter Pro’s Confirmed for Three August Saturday’s

The IRFU has confirmed the fixtures for the 2023 Vodafone Women’s Interprovincial Championship, which will take place this August and September as part of a new season plan designed to provide our leading players with consistent access to high-level game time. The four-Round series gets underway on Saturday, 12th August, as defending champions Munster get their 2023 campaign underway against …

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