Rowers Add to Medal Rush
Irish rowers Paul and Gary O’Donovan won gold in the final of the men’s lightweight double sculls at World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne, Switzerland at the weekend while teammate Sanita Puspure added to Ireland's recent medal rush on the global stage taking silver in the...
Young Irish Athletes Set New Standard
Irish athletics celebrated its best ever performance at a major championship over the weekend with three gold medals and one silver lifting us to seventh place overall on the Medals Table at the European U18 Championships in Hungary. Gold medals for Sarah Healy in the...
Gymnastics Strikes World Gold
Ireland scored its best ever performance on the International Gymnastics stage this weekend with Andrew Smith, Adam Steele and Rhys McClenaghan qualifying for no fewer than 6 apparatus finals at the 2018 World Challenge Cup in Mersin, Turkey. The highlight was Rhys...
OCI Provides €200,000 in Funding Grants
The Olympic Council of Ireland is to make €200,000 of funding grants available across 16 sports to assist with Olympic focused projects. The grants are being made available to member National Governing Bodies with €20,000 going to Boxing, Cycling, Horse Sport, Rowing,...
Powering the Future for Women in Sport
Meetings of influencers looking to contribute ideas on the next stage of development for Women in Sport in Ireland have been taking place across the country over the past few weeks. The National Indoor Arena at the National Sports Campus was the first venue for around...
54 Medals From Transplant Games
It was a triumphant week for Transplant Team Ireland at the 10th European Transplant & Dialysis Championships in Cagliari as they won a staggering 54 medals including 11 Gold, 20 silver, 23 Bronze. A large turnout of family friends and supporters turned out to...
Government Confirms Commitment to Sport
The Government has published the specific elements relating to Sport as part of the Project Ireland 2040 review of Capital Spending Projects. The programme outlines an expected spend of €200 Million between 2018 and 2021 with further expansion over the period of 2022...
Federation Signs Teamer Deal
Teamer, the leading sports technology company for amateur sport, has today announced a 3 year partnership with the Federation of Irish Sport as the preferred supplier of team, club and league management software to National Governing Bodies in Ireland. The partnership...
Sport Ireland Hails Work of LSP’s
Sport Ireland has published the 11th annual Sport Ireland Strategic, Planning, Evaluation and Knowledge (SPEAK) Report on the national network of Local Sports Partnerships (LSPs). The publication was preceded by meetings in Athlone and Portlaoise this week where...
Gymnastics Putting on a Show to Celebrate
It is great to see our member organisations not only putting on great events but also sharing them for others to see. Gymnastics Ireland’s headline participation event - ‘The Floor’, took place for the third consecutive year on Sunday 3rd June in the National Indoor...
The Value of Sport
As part of the 2018 Federation of Irish Sport Conference in Trinity College Dublin, CEO Mary O'Connor gave a presentation concerning a substantial survey of our members, the full detail of which we will be unveiling over the coming months. In terms of what information...
In Search of Excellence
A review of what we delivered for over 300 attendees at the 2018 6th Annual Federation of Irish Sport Conference.
Archived News
Federation of Irish Sport publish Investec Economic Research Report into the Economic Value of Sport
For every €100 invested in sport by Government, Exchequer receives up to €195 in tax revenues – new report Research findings published by the Federation of Irish Sport in partnership with Investec Research into economic value of sport in Ireland represents first major...
International leaders in Inclusive Sport and Physical Activity deliver training at Kerry Sports Academy
As part of European Week of Sport, Cara in conjunction with Sport Ireland coordinated a day of inclusion training at the Kerry Sports Academy for the network of Sport Inclusion Disability Officers based in the 29 Local Sports Partnerships nationwide. They were also...
New winners and record crowd at Camogie Finals!
There was a record-breaking day on September 8th along with three thrilling Finals as new winners were crowned across all three grades in front of a record crowd of 24,730. Kerry got the day off to a start with a bang as they claimed the Premier Junior crown for the...
Stunning performance sees Irish horses and riders claim two Gold and two Silver medals at World Breeding Championship in Belgium
Irish Horses and riders have recorded an incredible result today (Sunday) at the FEI WBFSH Show Jumping World Breeding Championship for Young Horses at Lanaken in Belgium, taking home two Gold and two Silver medals. It was a spectacular performance from the Irish to...
Baton Twirling team bring home 8 medals from International Cup
Baton Twirling Sport Association of Ireland In August the BTSAI sent seventy one athletes to the International Cup Baton Twirling competition in Limoges, France. This event covers a total of seven disciplines with some of the sections having 80 contestants hoping to...
Three Irish teams in Top 8 of Small Countries Senior Beach Volleyball Championships
Three Irish Women’s teams finished in the Top 8 of the Small Countries Association Senior Championships in Perth, Scotland over the weekend. The results signifying positive progress as Volleyball Ireland looks to increase participation and improve performance on the...
Galway lead shortlist for 2019 Camogie All-Stars Awards nominations
Galway lead shortlist for 2019 Camogie All-Stars Awards nominations All-Ireland champions Galway lead the Camogie All-Stars Awards 2019 shortlist. The final team will be announced at the 16th annual Camogie All-Stars Awards banquet, sponsored by Liberty Insurance in...
Federation of Irish Sport – Budget 2020 Asks
We are asking the Government as part of Budget 2020 to deliver the second (of ten) phase of core funding this year, to remain online to double funding over the 10-year lifetime of the National Sports Policy 2018–2027, as per Action 45 of that policy. Sport plays an...
Record Numbers for Ladies Football Finals on TG4
Record Numbers for Ladies Football Finals on TG4 TG4’s coverage of the TG4 Ladies Football Championships culminated yesterday with the live broadcast of the Junior, Intermediate and Senior Finals from Croke Park. A new record was set yesterday with 56,114 people in...
EY Ireland continues its support for Hockey League
EY Ireland continues its support for Hockey League Monday 16 September 2019 EY Ireland announced it will continue its sponsorship of Hockey Ireland’s highest level of domestic competition – the EY Hockey League – for a further three years. Speaking at...