Chocolate muffins deemed gold-standard in Olympic Village With some 40,000 meals served daily in what has been deemed to be the biggest restaurant in the world – at the Olympic Village – there have been, let’s say, mixed reviews of the quality of the food on of...
Ireland has been home to some truly amazing athletes who put their country on the sporting world map.The Book of Irish Sporting Heroesintroduces readers to Olympic gold medalists, Gaelic Athletic Association champions, soccer stars, tennis pros, and more. This is a guide to Irish Sporting histor...
An Olympic gold medal for Ireland doesn’t happen too often in your life watching sport. The confidence from Daniel Wiffen, the courage to pull off his plan, to kick and win when he went behind. To break the Olympic record. To get Ireland’s 12th ever gold m...
Winning the first Olympic gold medal in slopestyle, for one.And winning it with one trick he'd never tried before and another that included a self-invented grab of the board he named the 'Holy Crail'.The 20-year-old American jetted off the first big jump of the slopestyle course ...
Limerick born John Flanagan (1873-1938) was a three-time Olympic gold medalist in the hammer throw, who represented the U.S. at the 1900, 1904 and 1908 Olympics. At the 1908 London Olympics, Flanagan beat his own world record with a distance of 170 feet, 4.5 inches. ...
The British and Irish Lions currently play against Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The side’s most recent tour took them to South Africa in 2021. Their next tours will take place in Australia (2025) and New Zealand (2029). ...
Pilipo Bukayaro, Filipe Sauturaga and returning Olympic Games gold medalist Kaminieli Rasaku began Fiji’s scoring run, with Terio Tamani only able to add one conversion. Tamani would make up for his early misses at goal with two converted tries of his own just before the break to put Fiji...
The Irish Cultural Center (ICC) on Columbia Street in Utica is hosting the world-renowned Byrne Brothers on Friday night. The Byrne Brothers are best known in America as a headlining band at the Raglan Road Irish Pub at Disney Springs in Orlando.
Mary’s University in Maryland. The school has since produced several other Olympic medalists as well as world record holders, world champions and major marathon winners. In 1989, O’Connell conducted the first of his famed youth training camps. Held twice a year, these three-week camps bring...
Joe went on to study equine science at the University of Limerick, where he also met now Irish show jumping superstar, and Longines FEI European Championships team gold medalist Shane Sweetnam, who would later become one of the first ambassadors for Joe’...