3+ week, 4+ day ago   (771+ words) When Adam Steele mentions his family’s homeschooling situation he knows questions will inevitably follow. The 28-year-old’s workplace this morning is the Zagreb Arena, where he will represent Ireland in the European Gymnastics Championships. In doing so he leaves behind a…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (798+ words) One day when he was around six years old, Eamon Montgomery’s parents were bringing him to the swimming pool in the local leisure centre in Lisburn. They went in through the wrong door and into a brand new gym that…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (700+ words) Kate O’Connor is within touching distance of the gold medal in the heptathlon at the European Championship after another strong performance in the javelin, propelling herself into first place with just the 800m to come. O’Connor produced a best throw of…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (712+ words) Shortly before Kate O’Connor won the first senior multi-event medal for Ireland, just a year and a half ago, she spoke about her changing mindset when it came to the major championships. No longer there just to compete, or in…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (769+ words) Emma Slevin sat across the dinner table from one of her idols and instantly knew where the next chapter of her flourishing gymnastics career was going to unfold. “I just kept thinking, ‘oh my God, I’m sitting across from Kyla…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (653+ words) The disappointment of Glasgow has already been filed away by Rhys McClenaghan. The Olympic champion finished sixth in the Commonwealth Games pommel horse final after judges declined to award the difficulty value for his new opening mount, a decision that…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (552+ words) Rhys McClenaghan has missed out on a third Commonwealth Games medal after he was forced to go for broke in the pommel horse final in Glasgow. The Olympic champion was second last of eight gymnasts to go in the final…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (745+ words) Standing on the podium at the recent World Cup event in Antalya, having finished third on pommel horse behind Olympic champion Rhys McClenaghan, James Hickey had a moment to take it all in. The young Irish gymnast is beginning to…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago   (867+ words) The last thing Kate O’Connor will be thinking about right now will be any more running, jumping or throwing. Well before her silver medal heroics in the heptathlon, she’d already planned a few weeks travelling around Japan. And now that…...