The Full List Of Ireland’s Olympics Squad For Paris 2024 | Balls.ie

We’ve been tracking them for a couple of years now but we’re in Olympics month, and Team Ireland is nearly finalised so it’s time to start listing those who’ve been selected.

You can read our last update to see how we got here, but this article will focus on the chosen athletes. We might have to update it soon when the Athletics rankings are adjusted, but, as of now, Team Ireland stands at 129 athletes in 15 different sports. It is our biggest-ever Olympic squad.

How Team Ireland is stacking up ahead of the Paris Olympics

Athletics (15 individuals – 2 relay teams)

The Athletics team will be finalised over the coming days with several athletes hoping they receive an invitation as others drop out. Our women’s 4x400m relay squad can bring five athletes but must include those who qualify individually. The mixed 4x400m relay squad can name 2 men and 2 women. They don’t have to include any qualified individuals, but it’s likely we will.

• Rhasidat Adeleke (400m)
• Sharlene Mawdsley (400m)
• Ciara Mageean (1,500m)
• Sarah Healy (1,500m)
• Sophie O’Sullivan (1,500m)
• Sarah Lavin (100m hurdles)
• Fionnuala McCormack (marathon)
• Nicola Tuthill (hammer)
• Kate O’Connor (heptathlon)
• a minimum of 3 women for 400m relays
• Mark English (800m)
• Andrew Coscoran (1,500m)
• Luke McCann (1,500m)
• Cathal Doyle (1,500m)
• Brian Fay (5,000m)
• Eric Favors (shot put)
• 2 men for 400m relays

Adeleke, Mawdsley, O’Sullivan, Tuthill, O’Connor, McCann, Doyle and Favors are first-time Olympians.

Badminton (2)

• Nhat Nguyen (men’s singles)
• Rachael Darragh (women’s singles)

Darragh is making her Olympic debut.

Boxing (10)

• Daina Moorhouse (50kg)
• Jennifer Lehane (54kg)
• Michaela Walsh (57kg)
• Kellie Harrington (60kg)
• Grainne Walsh (66kg)
• Aoife O’Rourke (75kg)
• Jude Gallagher (57kg)
• Dean Clancy (65.5kg)
• Aidan Walsh (71kg)
• Jack Marley (92kg)

Medal winners from Tokyo, Harrington (gold) and Aidan Walsh (bronze), return. Harrington is the number 3 seed, Aoife O’Rourke is seeded number 2 while Jack Marley is seeded number 7. We include seven first-time Olympians in our ten-strong team, the most of any European nation.

Canoeing (3)

• Liam Jegou (C1 slalom)
• Noel Hendrick (K1 slalom, kayak cross)
• Madison Corcoran (K1 slalom, kayak cross)

The kayak cross event is new to the Olympics and athletes qualified for any of the traditional slalom events can enter. It sees four boats race down a shortened slalom course.

Cycling (7 – 2 teams)

Track

• Lara Gillespie (team pursuit, madison, omnium)
• Alice Sharpe (team pursuit, madison)
• Kelly Murphy (team pursuit)
• Mia Griffen (team pursuit)

Road

• 2 men to be selected
• 1 woman to be selected

The road selections will be announced soon. This is our first time qualifying a women’s team pursuit squad. That allows them to compete in the madison and omnium events with Lara Gillespie competing in all 3. None of the track team have competed in an Olympics before.

Diving (2)

• Jake Passmore (3m springboard)
• Ciara McGing (10m platform)

A first Olympics for both divers. After a gap of 48 years until our return to diving in 2016, this is the third Games in a row for Irish diving.

Equestrian (7 – 2 teams)

• Abi Lyle on Geraldo (dressage)
• Susie Berry on Wellfields Lincoln (eventing)
• Sarah Ennis on Action Lady M (eventing)
• Austin O’Connor on Colorado Blue (eventing)
• Cian O’Connor on Maurice (showjumping)
• Shane Sweetnam on James Kann Cruz (showjumping)
• Daniel Coyle on Legacy (showjumping)

We will enter the team competition for eventing and showjumping. Cian O’Connor won bronze in the 2012 Olympics. It is the first Olympics for Lyle, Berry and Coyle.

Golf (4)

• Rory McIlroy
• Shane Lowry
• Leona Maguire
• Stephanie Meadow

3rd Olympics for Maguire and Meadow, 2nd Olympics for McIlroy and Lowry

Gymnastics (1)

• Rhys McClenaghan (pommel horse)

Rhys will take part in his second Games. Although eligible to take part in every event, he will only enter the pommel horse

Hockey (16 – 1 team)

• David Harte
• Lee Cole
• Shane O’Donoghue
• Kyle Marshall
• Peter McKibbin
• Tim Cross
• Daragh Walsh
• Nick Page
• Sean Murray
• Michael Robson
• Peter Brown
• John McKee
• Jeremy Duncan
• Matthew Nelson
• Benjamin Walker
• Ben Johnson

A second Olympics for the Irish men’s side. Only goalkeeper David Harte and Shane O’Donoghue remain from the 2016 squad.

Rowing (16 – 7 boats)

• Paul O’Donovan (men’s lightweight double sculls)
• Fintan McCarthy (men’s lightweight double sculls)
• Aoife Casey (women’s lightweight double sculls)
• Mags Cremen (women’s lightweight double sculls)
• Phil Doyle (men’s double sculls)
• Daire Lynch (men’s double sculls)
• Alison Bergin (women’s double sculls)
• Zoe Hyde (women’s double sculls)
• Ross Corrigan (men’s coxless pair)
• Nathan Timoney (men’s coxless pair)
• Fiona Murtagh (women’s coxless pair)
• Aifric Keogh (women’s coxless pair)
• Eimear Lambe (women’s coxless four)
• Emily Hegarty (women’s coxless four)
• Natalie Long (women’s coxless four)
• Imogen Magner (women’s coxless four)

O’Donovan returns for his third Olympics looking to add to silver from Rio and Gold from Tokyo. McCarthy stays in the boat after Tokyo. The women’s four won bronze in Tokyo but they’ve been split up with Murtagh and Keogh moving to the double with Lambe and Hegarty staying in the four. 7 of the squad make their Olympic debut.

Rugby Sevens (24 – 2 teams)

Men’s squad

• Andrew Smith
• Chay Mullins
• Gavin Mullin
• Harry McNulty (c)
• Hugo Keenan
• Hugo Lennox
• Jack Kelly
• Jordan Conroy
• Mark Roche
• Niall Comerford
• Terry Kennedy
• Zac Ward

Women’s squad

• Alanna Fitzpatrick
• Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe
• Ashleigh Orchard
• Béibhinn Parsons
• Emily Lane
• Erin King
• Eve Higgins
• Kathy Baker
• Lucy Rock
• Megan Burns
• Stacey Flood
• Vicky Elmes Kinlan

An Olympic debut for our women’s team. This is the second Games for the men and seven of the Tokyo squad return; Mullin, McNulty, Lennox, Kelly, Conroy, Roche and Kennedy.

Sailing (4 – 3 boats)

• Eve McMahon (ILCA 6)
• Finn Lynch (ILCA 7)
• Robert Dickson (49er)
• Sean Waddilove (49er)

A debut Olympics for McMahon. Lynch competed in Rio but missed Tokyo. Dickson & Waddilove competed in Tokyo.

Swimming (12 – 2 relay teams)

• Daniel Wiffen (800m free, 1,500m free, 10km open water marathon)
• Mona McSharry (100m breaststroke, 200m breaststroke, 4x100m medley relay)
• Ellen Walshe (100m butterfly, 200m individual medley, 400m individual medley, 4x100m medley relay)
• Danielle Hill (50m freestyle, 100m backstroke, 4x100m medley relay, 4x100m freestyle relay)
• Tom Fannon (50m freestyle)
• Shane Ryan (4x100m medley relay)
• Max McCusker (4x100m medley relay)
• Darragh Greene (4x100m medley relay)
• Conor Ferguson (4x100m medley relay)
• Victoria Catterson (4x100m freestyle relay)
• Erin Riordan (4x100m freestyle relay)
• Grace Davison (4x100m freestyle relay)

One of Catterson, Riordan or Davison will be added to the medley relay team. There’s still a possibility that Conor Ferguson will swim the 100m backstroke event too. Our relay events are the men’s and women’s 4x100m medley and the women’s 4x100m freestyle.

Wiffen will become our first-ever open-water swimmer a week after the pool events finish. Shane Ryan becomes the first Irish swimmer to compete at 3 games.

Taekwondo (1)

Wooley’s second Olympics. He just missed on going to Rio as a 17-year-old in 2016.

We’ll have loads more to come in the run-up to the Games so stay tuned!

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