Fionnuala Britton
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Business as usual for Fionnuala McCormack
- Other Sports
- November 20, 2019, 15:12
The last thing Fionnuala McCormack wants is some fancy headline or blurb announcing her next big race, which is fair enough. Some athletes feel that n(...)

Noelle Lenihan is sportswoman of the month for October
- Other Sports
- November 12, 2015, 01:00
As medal hauls go, the one the Irish team brought back from the Paralympic Athletics World Championships in Doha, Qatar, last month was an impressiv(...)

Four Irish men beat Rio qualifying time in Berlin marathon
- Other Sports
- September 27, 2015, 13:33
So already the selection dilemma begins, with four Irish men finishing the Berlin marathon well inside the qualifying standard for next summer’s Rio O(...)

Ian O'Riordan: Berlin represents Ireland’s marathon hopefuls’ best shot for Rio
- Other Sports
- September 25, 2015, 22:30
Only 314 days to go! No one does this cheap and tiresome countdown better than the Olympics. And no one recognises the utter nonsense of it better (...)

Canoeist Jenny Egan can build on summer progress on quest for route to Rio
- Sport
- September 10, 2015, 01:00
After missing out on qualifying for London 2012 by a single place Jenny Egan might have been forgiven for concluding sport was far too cruel and life(...)

Brilliant Byrne helps basketball team clinch gold for Ireland
- Sport
- August 20, 2015, 07:30
We’ll trust that Aer Lingus overlooked excess baggage charges when they were bringing Ireland’s Special Olympics team home after they’d won, between t(...)

The Irish Times/Irish Sports Council Sportswoman Award for June: Katie Taylor (Boxing)
- Sport
- July 8, 2015, 22:30
There was decidedly bad news for Katie Taylor’s rivals in her division when, after winning her 18th consecutive title at the European Games in Baku, (...)

The Irish Times/Irish Sports Council Sportswoman Award for April: Katie Walsh (Horse racing)
- Sport
- May 13, 2015, 01:00
It was back in 2010 that Katie Walsh won her first Sportswoman of the Month award after a memorable visit to Cheltenham where she had two rides – and (...)

Olympic qualifying standards means it’s going to be a rocky road to Rio
- Other Sports
- April 18, 2015, 05:45
Gore Vidal said us newspaper reporters should only be concerned about the present, not the future. And now more than ever that rings true. If anything(...)

The Irish Times/Irish Sports Council Sportswoman Award for January: Gráinne Dwyer (Basketball)
- Sport
- February 18, 2015, 01:00
A year ago Gráinne Dwyer made our choice for the January sportswoman of the month an easy one after her MVP-winning performance in the National Cup fi(...)