Ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, we look at the Irish Olympic stories you didn't know, from Jack B Yeats winning Ireland's first ever medal in painting to the boxing clergyman who fought Franco
Corkman Frederick Whitfield Barrett won gold and bronze in polo at the Olympics before training the winner in the Scottish Grand National, part of an epic life that encouraged others to append legends to his name
It is unlikely that many Irish Olympians could lay claim to getting a mention in a Christy Moore song and being early proponents of the notion that you should ‘vote early, vote often’
Athlete went in a year from being barely known outside of Cork to preparing for the 2004 Athens Olympics as the fastest non-African in the world over 10,000m. It really was too good to be true
At a time of bitter factionalism in Irish cycling, and bloodshed in Northern Ireland, a group of riders plotted to disrupt the Olympic road race to make a point
Paddy Costello was a shot putter, an international rugby player and an inspiration to his son, to whom he conveyed tips through his deeds, notes and pipe
He was an Olympic medallist, but that was only one side of Sutherland. Fifteen years after his death, his family continues to remember him as the ‘amazing man’ he was outside the ring
When Fitzgerald died in June 1958 after contracting tuberculosis, less than a dozen mourners attended his funeral at Deansgrange Cemetery in Dublin
The ancient games had a star-studded revival 100 years, and with a heavy influence from the GAA, set out to rival the Paris Olympics of 1924
The Waterford racewalker suffered two broken vertebrae and had to wear a body cast for five months but still made it back to compete in Beijing four years later
One of Ireland’s first full-time athletes, Terry McHugh was never afraid of taking on impossible odds, and going where no one had gone before
Kerryman Ned Barrett, holder of an All-Ireland winner’s medal for hurling, beat Corkman Con O’Kelly to claim the title of British heavyweight wrestling champion in 1908. The stakes were even higher when the pair clashed again later that year ...
The Corkman once hailed in the US as ‘the Cajun sportsman of the century’ and described by Eamonn Coghlan as ‘one of the greatest Irish athletes of all time’ was also an inventor, engineer and musician. One RTÉ commentator says he was ’probably the most remarkable person I’ve come across in my life’
A snap decision to move to the USA, a doctor with good instincts and a large slice of luck – how the Waterford runner managed to find himself in the 1984 Los Angeles marathon
In Paris in 1924, Yeats’s painting The Liffey Swim took the silver medal in the art competition and gave a country that was just over 18 months old a treasure that has lasted a century
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
