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Mona McSharry in action during the Swim Ireland Irish Open Championships at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho
Conor Ferguson just misses out on Olympic qualifying time

Conor Ferguson came agonisingly close to the Olympic A time in winning Friday night’s 100m backstroke final on the second day of competition at the Ir(...)

Fiona Doyle shows off the silver medal she won in the 50m breaststroke at the World University Games in Gwangju.
Fiona Doyle changing attitudes one stroke at a time

Not long after winning her second swimming medal at last month’s World University Games in Gwangju – securing a Rio Olympic qualifying time in the pro(...)

Rio Olympics a reasonable goal for Grainne Murphy

Grainne Murphy may be remembered from London 2012 as the athlete who swam below par in the 400m freestyle heats, almost a full 10 seconds slower than (...)

Nepalese victims of the earthquake carry their belongings among debris of homes on April 29th, 2015 in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images
Last Irish person on Red Cross Nepal missing list makes contact

The family of Monaghan native Thomas Drumm say he has made contact with home and is safe and well in Nepal following last weekend’s earthquake.Mr Drum(...)

Serbia’s Novak Djokovic in action at Wimbledon. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire
One More Thing: BFree hopes Wimbledon deal will be game changer

He may have been given one of the best draws in this year’s Wimbledon championships, but world number one and confirmed coeliac Novak Djokovic will st(...)

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