Brought to you by Sport Ireland #WomeninSportIRE Not feeling good enough is the “most powerful barrier” that prevents inactive girls from taking part in sport, a new report has shown. The Adolescent Girls Get Active Research Report, recently released by Sport Ireland, was undertaken to discover how to encourage teenage girls, particularly those currently disengaged […]
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Sport Ireland and the FAI have announced a five-person Governance Review Group to review reform within the FAI ahead of the association’s upcoming AGM. The group met today and set out milestones to bring about change ahead of and following the Association’s AGM in Trim in July. The make-up of the new Group has been finalised […]
7 years ago
The board of Sport Ireland have decided to “suspend and withhold” future funding to the Football Association of Ireland. The decision was taken at a meeting of the board of Sport Ireland on Tuesday afternoon, a day before FAI representatives are due to appear before a meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on Sports, Tourism and […]
7 years ago
Portlaoise boxer Michael O’Reilly has been banned for four years from the sport after it was confirmed that he had tested positive for methandienone prior to the 2016 Olympics. O’Reilly won a gold medal at the 2015 European Games in Baku and entered the Rio Olympics as one of Ireland’s brightest medal prospects before he […]
8 years ago
O’Sullivan failed a drugs test after the 2016 Allianz League final
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Most tested sports revealed
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