Aoife Casey and Margaret Cremen qualify Lightweight Women’s Double for Paris 2024

Aoife Casey and Margaret Cremen have qualified the Lightweight Women’s Double for Paris 2024! Nerves were high on Day 7 of the World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia before they took to the water as just one boat in the B final would get the golden ticket. Casey and Cremen looked cool, calm and collected as they showed the world …

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2023 World Rowing Championships – Team Announcement

The 2023 World Rowing Championships are taking place in Belgrade, Serbia from September 3rd to 10th. Rowing Ireland High Performance Director, Antonio Maurogiovanni, has today, August 21, announced the selection of 12 crews that will compete at this year’s event. These championships act as the first opportunity for the Irish rowers to secure Olympic qualification spots for the 2024 Paris …

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European Rowing Championships: Day 4 Updates

Female Irish rowers took part in four more finals on the last day of the European Rowing Championships, but unfortunately won’t be taking home any medals. Imogen Magner and Natalie Long, however, won the B Final of the Women’s Pair in a fine performance and a sparkling debut for Magner. Coming from third place in the third 500m, the pair …

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European Rowing Championships: Day 3 Updates

Day 3 (May 27) of the European Rowing Championships wrapped up with Irish female rowers making appearances in two finals: Women’s Four and the Lightweight Women’s Double. Eimear Lambe, Tara Hanlon, Fiona Murtagh, and Aifric Keogh finished fifth in the Women’s Four A Final, struggling somewhat from the start but squeezing past Spain at the halfway mark. Romania, Great Britain, …

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Who To Watch Out For At The 2023 European Rowing Championships

The 2023 European Rowing Championships will commence this Thursday, 25 May (until 28 May) in Bled, Slovenia. The event will feature a range of races singles, doubles, quads, pairs and eights. This year, 10 teams have been selected to represent Ireland at the competition European Rowing Championships. The competition will give the crews a good measure of where they are …

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Our Top 5 Moments in Irish Sport 2022

2022 has been a phenomenal year for women in sport. Records have been smashed and history has been made, from Glasgow to Istanbul and from Cheltenham to Madison Square Garden, Irish women are consistently raising the bar and inspiring young and old all over. With such a historical and successful year in Irish sport it is near impossible to put …

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Katie O’Brien Wins Gold- Weekend Roundup

KPMG Women’s Irish Open- Maguire and Walsh Miss Out The Irish Women’s Open returned to the Ladies’ European Tour after a ten-year hiatus. Ireland’s Leona Maguire made a remarkable comeback from a difficult beginning which had left her ten shots behind, but missed making the 14-under-par required to make it into the play-off by just one shot. This left a …

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‘It was just one crew onto the slip after another with medals’

Last weekend, para rower Katie O’Brien took home the gold medal and set a new world record in the PR2 single sculls event at the World Cup II in Poznan, Poland. The Galway rower raced in her last individual event around three years ago, and has been training and preparing for her next race since. “It’s been obviously a frustrating …

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Her Sport Young Athlete Of The Year 2019: Meet The Contenders

2019 proved to be a remarkable year for Irish women in sport. The Her Sport Awards are aimed at celebrating this success. Meet the 2019 Young Athlete Of The Year contenders.

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