Full coverage: olympics

Irish Olympian Eve McMahon made history in 2025 as Ireland’s first World number 1 in sailing. With Los Angeles 2028 in her sights, can she maintain momentum?

Allowances in sport for neutral athletes from Russia are opaque, undermining the enforcement of bans and sanctions and are making “political chess pieces” out of Irish athletes.

Once Olympic outsiders, Ireland’s sailors are now serial medal contenders. Behind the podium surge is a radical rethink of how a small island funds, trains and fuels its talent.

Padraic McKeever didn’t have the grá for teaching so he went into sports kit sales. The brand he founded is now supplying Olympians and All-Ireland winners.

In 2016, the Olympic movement in Ireland was in tatters. Now, Team Ireland has enjoyed its best-ever games. Olympic Federation of Ireland CEO Peter Sherrard explains how the organisation rebuilt relationships with the Government, sponsors, the public, and most of all, athletes.

There will never be a summer like this again and that should be enough for all of us. We escaped from reality and lived in a world where caution was for others. Caution was another country.

Sarah Keane, president of the Olympic Federation of Ireland and chief executive of Swim Ireland, is thrilled by Ireland’s success in Paris. But she is conscious that this is just another step in the journey, as opposed to the endpoint.

A number of France’s top rugby players, including Antoine Dupont, will not be involved in the Six Nations championship. Instead they will concentrate on sevens rugby at the Paris Olympics and the chance of a gold medal. Should top Irish players follow suit?