Young Water Polo players in Ireland were delighted this month when 3 time Olympic Gold Medallist and World Champion Gergely Kiss from Hungary visited them at the Irish Water Polo Association Under 14 Cup in Galway. The Hungarian Idol brought along his medals and got into the pool to give the players and spectators some tips. Congratulations to Corrib WPC who were the Gold Medal winners on the day. Under 14 Cup Results Semi – Finals Clontarf 6—9 Drogheda St Vincents 6— [...]
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An investment package of €33 million for Irish sport in 2013 by the Irish Sports Council has been announced today by Minister of State for Tourism & Sport Michael Ring. This money includes €19.3 million for National Governing Bodies of sport, €5.1 million for Local Sports Partnerships and €8.6 million for high performance sport. The funding is split across 3 areas including core grant, high performance and women in sport. In 2013 Swim Ireland has taken a cut across all [...]
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Swimmers will be taking to the waters of pools all around Ireland this spring to swim a mile as part of a major fundraising effort to raise funds in aid of Child Cancer Care. The Annual Ian Daly Swim a Mile with a Smile has become an important swimming event each Spring and this year’s event promises to be as successful as previous years. The challenge is for swimmers to be sponsored to swim a mile, 64 lengths of a [...]
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At a meeting in late February 2013 between Peter Banks, Swim Ireland National Performance Director and Cork Performance Squad organisers and coaches Richard Cassidy, Tom Cross and Deirdre Cunningham, it was agreed that this squad would now work under the Swim Ireland Performance umbrella and henceforth be known as the Swim Ireland-Cork Performance Squad. This group, which was most recently designated the Cork Regional Performance Squad, was started at Christmas 2011 with the aim of improving the standard of Cork [...]
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Deaf Village Ireland (DVI), an all-inclusive state-of-the-art community facility officially opened its doors on Ratoath Road, Cabra yesterday (Monday 04.03.13). DVI aims to facilitate and support members of the Deaf community nationally to encourage inclusivity and the local community and communication between the two groups. This is aided by the bi-lingual approach taken, whereby Irish Sign Language (ISL) and spoken English are the two primary languages present and both are used constantly. At 11.30, Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, [...]
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Swim Ireland’s Chief Executive Officer Sarah Keane was yesterday (7th March) a guest speaker at a European Sports Conference, hosted by Ireland as part of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The Conference, which was held in Dublin Castle was attended by representaives from all over Europe and Ireland and included speakers such as Minister Michael Ring, Derek McGrath, CEO of the European Rugby Cup, Prof Stefan Szymanski, Professor of Sports Management at the University of [...]
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Chris Bryan has finished 9th at his first Open Water Competition of 2013. The Swim Ireland Limerick Performance Centre swimmer travelled to Eilat, Israel last week with new coach Lars Humer for the 3rd leg of the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup Series. Germany’s Christian Reichert was the winner on the day in 1:53.29, he beat off teammate Thomas Lurz (1:53.34) and USA’s Alexander Meyer (1:53.36) to claim Gold. Frenchman Romain Beraud (1:53.58) who had won the first two legs of [...]
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