Author name: Mark Stoops

  Ireland’s Olympic Champion Daniel Wiffen and bronze medallist Mona McSharry will spearhead Swim Ireland’s 13-strong swimming and diving team into the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore exactly one year after the Paris Games, which saw the team return from Paris with three medals.  Swimming and Diving at the World Aquatics Championships run from July […]

  The 2025 Irish Summer National Youth and Senior Championships resumed in the National Aquatic Centre for the second day of racing with 32 national titles up for grabs. The Female 1500m Freestyle event took place this afternoon with medals up for grabs across all age categories. Lucie O’Keeffe of Aer Lingus claimed victory in

  The first day of the 2025 Irish National Summer Youth and Senior Championships got underway today in Dublin. The Sport Ireland National Aquatic Centre will host just under 1,000 swimmers from 116 clubs over five days of exciting racing. The Open 800m Freestyle events showcased some of the most exciting long-distance racing of the

  After four days of exciting racing, the 2025 Irish National Age Group Championships came to a close this evening in Limerick, with eighteen gold medals awarded throughout the final day of competition. Bangor started the morning off with a relay double. The first came in the Mixed 200m Freestyle Relay (12yrs), where they posted

  Day three of the 2025 Irish National Age Group Championships took place today in the UL Arena, with twenty-three national gold medals up for grabs throughout an exciting day of racing. Aer Lingus completed a relay double this morning, winning gold in both the Open and Girls 200m Medley Relay with times of 2:25.57

  The second day of the 2025 Swim Ireland National Age Group Championships took place today at the UL Arena in Limerick. In the Open 200m Freestyle Relay (12yrs), Trojan secured gold with a time of 2:08.04, while Aer Lingus claimed victory in the girls’ event with 2:06.11. In the Open 400m Freestyle Relay, Portadown

  Over 700 swimmers from 100 clubs gathered at the University of Limerick Sport Arena for the 2025 Irish Summer National Age Group Championships, running from Thursday to Sunday. The competition hosts Ireland’s best 12–14-year-old swimmers, all competing for national championship medals. The first national medals were up for grabs on the opening morning of

  Grace Davison & John Shortt brought the curtain down on the 2025 European Aquatics Championships in spectacular fashion with gold and bronze medal wins on the final night of racing in Samorin, Slovakia.   It took less than ten minutes for Ireland to claim two medals as the final night of the Championships got underway,

After five days of exciting racing, Irish swimmers headed to the blocks for the final day of the 2025 European Aquatics Championships in Samorin, Slovakia, showing no signs of slowing down. Following on from the Women’s 4x100m Medley Relay, it was quickly over to the men’s 4x100m Medley team, a quartet of Phelim Hanley, Adam

  Grace Davison struck bronze in the 100m Freestyle in a new Irish Record and advanced to the 200m Individual Medley Final on the penultimate night of racing at the 2025 European Aquatics Junior Championships.   The Irish crowd did not have long to wait to make some noise as Grace Davison headed to the blocks