MARS Milk Play Fund
The MARS Milk Play Fund has now been officially launched. Through the Fund, there will be 49 cash rewards donated over a five month period to sports individuals, projects and clubs. Each week, two deserving applicants will be selected to receive a donation of €300....
Active Schools Week (ASW) 27th April-1st May 2015 launched
The Minister for Education and Skills, Jan O’Sullivan TD, launched Active Schools Week (ASW) 2015 on 20th April 2015 in Our Lady's National School Adare Co. Limerick, supported by the Minister for Health Leo Varadkar. Jointly sponsored by the Department of Education...
Shannon Airport European Sport Tourism Summit – 14th & 15th May
‘Maximising the Impact of Sport Tourism’ 4 Events over 2 Days with 25 speakers from the world of sport, tourism, events, marketing, sponsorship and destination development. Overview: The second European Sport Tourism Summit will be in held in Thomond Park Stadium,...
NGB Profile: Gymnastics Ireland
Gymnastics is one of the oldest Olympic sports and largest sports in the World. The World Gymnastics Championships is broadcast to a global TV audience of around 200 million people and at every Olympic Games, gymnastics is one of the first sports to sell out. In...
Federation of Irish Sport Conference 2015
This year sees the return of the FIS Annual Conference for its third year and it has fast become a must attend event for leaders from Irish Sport, government and business. In 2015 the event will again be hosted in the Storehouse and the keynote address will be...
Show Jumping: Teenager Bertarm Allen Bids To Become Ireland's First Ever World Cup Winner
WEXFORD’S Bertram Allen is Ireland’s only representative at this week’s Longines FEI World Cup Jumping Final in Las Vegas, USA, which starts early on Friday morning (Irish time) and finishes on Sunday night. Allen and his grey mare Molly Malone V will be amongst 41 of...
Sport Tourism Summit 2015
SCHEDULE Thursday 14th May – Shannon Airport European Sport Tourism Summit 2015 – Shannon Group European Sport Tourism Awards 2015 Friday 15th May – European Sport Tourism Industry Expert Sessions – European Sport Tourism Academic Conference Register here:...
SHOW JUMPING – WEXFORD TEENAGER ALLEN BREAKS THROUGH INTO WORLD TOP TEN
SETTING a new high in Irish sporting achievement, 19 year-old Bertram Allen has today (Tuesday) entered the top ten of the world's best show jumping riders. In the official Longines World Rider Rankings, which measure the monthly performances of over 2,000 riders...
Grant Thornton Corporate 5k Team Challenge in association with Athletics Ireland
The Grant Thornton Corporate 5k Team Challenge is back by popular demand in the Dublin Docklands on Tuesday 1st of September for the fourth year in a row. It is also expanding to two new locations the National Sports Campus in Fingal on Wednesday 13th of May and The...
All Champions are Special- Video celebrating Team Ireland's involvement at the Special Olympics Summer Games
Minister announces €40m Sport Capital funding for 2015
Minister of State for Sport, Michael Ring, has announced the opening of the 2015 round of the Sports Capital Programme. Minister Ring said: ‘When these grants are allocated later this year, this Government will have committed almost €130 million for the development of...
IPB Community Engagement Fund 2015 launched- €1m in funding availble
IPB, who underwrite the Federation’s group insurance scheme delivered in partnership with JLT, have launched their 2015 community fund. The fund provides financial assistance to grassroots organisations who bring real and lasting change to local communities. Last year...
Archived News
Call for Input on Volunteer Strategy
Sport is a huge part of volunteering in Ireland and Minister of State at the Department of Rural and Community Development, Mr. Sean Canney, TD, has launched a Call for Input Paper on Volunteering. This paper is the first step in developing a national volunteering...
New Hockey Pitch for Campus
A new state of the art hockey pitch will be laid at the Sport Ireland National Sports Campus, providing a welcome boost to Ireland’s national hockey teams as they go in search of Tokyo 2020 qualification. Today’s announcement comes on the back of recent strong...
Olympic Partnerships and New Chef de Mission
The Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI) and Sport Ireland Institute today announced a ground-breaking, athlete centred partnership agreement for performance support delivery for the period 2018-2022. The OFI and Sport Ireland also announced that Fukuroi City in Japan...
Ministers Reveal detail of €4.5 Million Dormant Account Funding Boost
Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross TD, and Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Brendan Griffin TD, today announced an investment package of almost €4.5 million in Dormant Accounts Funding for a wide range of sport and physical activity measures...
TG4 announce Media Partnership with 20×20
National Irish Language broadcaster TG4 is delighted to announce that it has come on board as a Media Partner for the 20x20 Women in Sport initiative. The announcement was made live, during the broadcasting of the All Ireland Ladies Football Club Finals on TG4 this...
Meany and Murphy Named as European New Leaders
Two Irish sports professionals, Olympian and Get Ireland Swimming National Co-Ordinator Grainne Murphy and Conor Meany (Basketball Ireland) were selected for the New Leaders Sport Leadership Education Programme. The pair were selected following a European application...
Hurling and Camogie Granted World Heritage Recognition
The Federation is delighted to hear the news that hurling and Camogie have been inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. At a meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible...
A Charter for Disability Sport
Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross TD, today launched Ireland’s first ever Sport Inclusion Disability Charter. The Federation of Irish Sport, the FAI and Kildare LSP were among the first organisations to sign up to the charter. The charter, which...
Getting to Know … 2Into3
As part of a monthly feature, we get to know a little more about the organisations and the individuals that support the work of the Federation. This month it's the turn of Dennis O'Connor of 2Into3, who earlier this year made his international Hockey debut. Can...
Basketball’s Teaching Potential
The National Basketball Arena was the focus of all of the action for the 2018 Dublin Primary Schools’ Mini Basketball League finals this week, as over 1,000 children took to the court for a big festival of basketball. Throughout the finals, 1,110 children played in...