Kieran McCarthy
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Sports Editor, The Southern Star. Author of Something in the Water, shortlisted for 2019 Irish Sports Book of the Year.
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Last Seen Profiles
Just found this on my phone from Gary & Paul's homecoming in August 2016. Look who's on the left, Fintan McCarthy, then 19 years old, watching it all unfold in Skibbereen. Five years later he's in the boat and has an Olympic gold medal. Just shows what is possible.
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Arise Paul O'Donovan, the Rowing King of Skibbereen. Ireland's greatest-ever rower. Just look at his medal haul. He's still 28.
Olympics 🥇🥈
World Championships 🥇🥇🥇🥇
European Championships 🥇🥇🥇🥈🥈
World Cups 🥇🥇🥇🥈🥈🥉🥉
Last six international regattas 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇
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This is the Paul O'Donovan appreciation tweet.
He's only 26 years old but Paul is, easily, one of the greatest sportspeople we've ever had. He's a four-time world senior champion, a two-time European champ, Ireland's best-ever rower, and he's not finished yet. A beast of a rower
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WORLD CHAMPIONS, AGAIN!
Simply supreme from Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy as they win gold in the men's lightweight double at the World Rowing Championships. Devastatingly dominant, again. Made in Skibb to take over the world. 🥇
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12 years ago, Peter O'Mahony presented a medal to 12-year-old Jack Crowley at
@bandonrfc
end of season awards, and now they start together for Ireland in the Six Nations opener against France, O'Mahony as captain & Crowley as No. 10.
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A magical moment as the Irish women's four, including
@skibbrowing
's Emily Hegarty, get their hands on the bronze medals at the Olympics in Tokyo.
Huge result for Irish rowing and Irish women's rowing 💪
@RowingIreland
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So, Cork football fans from West Cork travelling home from Dublin after the All-Ireland SFC quarter-final (6pm throw-in in Croke Park) will leave Dublin some time after 8pm, if they're lucky, and they'll be home by Monday after spending a week's wage on petrol.
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What a moment for Jack Crowley and his dad Fachtna after Ireland's win against France.
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They won Olympic gold, European gold, World Cup II gold and Henley gold. They won Ireland's first-ever Olympic gold rowing medal. They won every international race together in 2021. They set a world best time. It was the perfect year. Just not good enough for some it seems ...
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We need to talk about Paul O'Donovan again. Ireland's greatest-ever rower. He is now a six-time world rowing champion, not to mention an Olympic gold & silver medallist. Has won world gold in the single (2) & double (4), the last three with Fintan McCarthy, before that with Gary
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Exclusion of Skibb rower Paul O'Donovan after his sensational 2021 devalues this shortlist.
His highlights:
☑️ Olympic GOLD medal.
☑️ European GOLD.
☑️ Pound for pound the BEST rower in the world.
☑️ Won EVERY race in Irish double at international level.
☑️ Henley Regatta GOLD.
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This will be on a loop for some time to come.
Here's how two Skibbereen men became Olympic champions. Take a bow, Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy. 🥇
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Jack Crowley finishes his first Six Nations campaign as Ireland's No. 10 with a winner's medal and having played every minute of all five games. An impressive campaign, and this lad is only going to get better and better.
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Two men from the same parish of Aughadown, who learned to row with the same club,
@skibbrowing
, under the same coach, Dominic Casey, on the same Ilen River are the undisputed best lightweight men's double crew in the world. Utter dominance year after year, race after race.
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Touch of class from Clonakilty's 1996 Cork SFC winning heroes to give a guard of honour to current team at the county final in Pairc Ui Chaoimh. Great to see Liam O'Donovan here too.
📽
@joeyblake79
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A cracking photo here in every sense from a recent
@carberygaa
JAHC semi-final, as
@clongaa
's Eoin Ryan puts his body on the line to block a shot from
@BalGAAofficial
's Brian O'Donovan, and manages to snap the hurley in two as well! Credit to Paddy Feen for a top-class photo.
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Name a better set of first cousins in Irish sport right now.
Gavin Coombes, just after bossing Maori All Blacks. Olympic champion Paul O'Donovan, just after winning gold at World Cup III with a record-breaking time.
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NANA'S PRIDE!
Ireland's greatest-ever rower Paul O'Donovan - or should we say Dr O'Donovan - gets the seal of approval from his nan, Mary Doab, following his graduation from
@UCC
with a Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine. 👏
📸 Michael MacSweeney/Provision
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Incredible photo here, as 12-year-old Jack Crowley met
@Munsterrugby
stars - his future team-mates - Peter O'Mahony &
@SimonZebo
at
@bandonrfc
end-of-season awards in 2012. Now look where Jack is, heading to World Cup alongside O'Mahony.
📸 Thanks to Damien Healy of Bandon RFC
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GOLD! Paul O'Donovan has won gold in the men's lightweight singles A final at World Cup III in Lucerne!
Easy to understand why the Lisheen man is the best in the business. 🥇
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Always think of this photo I took in 2016 when I see what Fintan McCarthy has achieved. That's him on the left at Gary & Paul's homecoming after Rio Games. He was 19, dreaming of getting in that boat. Now he is an Olympic, World & two-time European champ. Dreams do come true.
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GOLD for Fintan McCarthy & Paul O'Donovan at the European Rowing Championships!
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Olympic champions Paul O'Donovan & Fintan McCarthy have won their Double Sculls Challenge Cup quarter-final at
@HenleyRegatta
, getting the better of heavyweights. That's just how these Skibb lads roll.
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WORLD CUP BEST TIME!
Not only did the great Paul O'Donovan win gold in the lightweight men's single A final at World Cup III today, but he did it in a World Cup Best Time! The new record he set is 6:47.15. Easily one of the greatest sportspeople we've ever had.
📸
@skibbrowing
GOLD! Paul O'Donovan has won gold in the men's lightweight singles A final at World Cup III in Lucerne!
Easy to understand why the Lisheen man is the best in the business. 🥇
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An epic photo from the early 1980s. On right is Dominic Casey, mastermind of
@skibbrowing
's growth &
@RowingIreland
's lightweight success, and also dad of World bronze medallist Aoife. On left is Teddy O'Donovan, dad of Paul and Gary. Rowing is knitted into their DNA & culture.
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Army helicopter busy battling the fires in Killarney National Park.
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This isn't the first time Paul O'Donovan has worn an Olympic gold medal around his neck. He did in 2002 when a Great Britain Olympic champ visited
@skibbrowing
. Paul's dad, Teddy, always felt this was an important moment. Now Paul has how own gold.
📸 Courtesy of Arthur Little
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What an incredible run by
@philhealy2
and the entire Ireland 4x400m mixed relay team who are through to the World final tomorrow & have also secured Olympic qualification!
@TomBarr247
@sharlenem229
@cfccod
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Clear water between the Irish lightweight men’s double of Paul O'Donovan & Fintan McCarthy and the rest of the field as they powered to gold in the A final at World Rowing Cup II in Lucerne.
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Light a candle. Hopefully he survived this tackle ...
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Two VIRs (Very Important Rowers) have just passed through Skibbereen with their trophies from war, otherwise know as Olympic medals. A quick drive-by, but huge excitement.
Welcome home, Fintan and Emily!
Another
@SouthernStarIRL
photo exclusive!
📸: Anne Minihane
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Padraig O'Hora acknowledging Clifford's class after he powered past him for a goal.
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Some year for these two. Olympic gold, European gold, World Cup II gold, Henley success. They've won every race together in every regatta they've competed in this year. Two Skibbereen men who are the best in the world. Something in the water, alright.
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It's a sight we'll never tire of, watching Skibbereen's finest shine on the world stage. Paul O'Donovan & Fintan McCarthy add another European title to an impressive medal haul.
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To mark his 50th birthday here's a photo of Roy Keane, with another Cork legend Sonia O'Sullivan, that I came across in
@SouthernStarIRL
HQ before. Not sure of the context or occasion, but it's said the universe shook the day these greats met.
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Never knew Ger Loughnane played in La Liga.
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Soak all of this in, as Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy pick up their latest gold medals. World champions, again. Keep an eye out for Paul's mom,
@trish_donovan
, celebrating too.
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Where does Paul O'Donovan rank now in the pantheon of Irish sporting greats?
🥇 An Olympic gold medal to go with his silver from 2016.
🥇 Four World golds.
🥇 Two European golds.
🥇 Widely recognised as greatest lightweight rower in the world.
This man is in a league of his own.
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Desperately sad news that Paudie Palmer passed away overnight. A colourful, charismatic & charming man that was taken too soon. Well-known as a GAA commentator, he was so much more than that: a friend to so many. And always the rogue. Condolences to his family & friends.
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It's now a hat-trick of world championship gold medals for Paul O’Donovan & Fintan McCarthy. 2019, 2022 & 2023. Incredible consistency and dominance from the two Skibbereen rowers from the same parish of Aughadown.
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Running out of words to describe these two Skibbereen rowers from the same parish of Aughadown. There's a beauty to their dominance. Two West Cork lads who have taken over the world. Take a bow, Paul and Fintan.
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Slipped under the radar, but Paul O'Donovan has set a new lightweight Irish indoor 2000m record of 5:58.4. To break the six-minute barrier as a lightweight is pretty sensational stuff. World record (lightweight) is 5:56.7, set in 2013. All augurs well for Paris this summer.
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THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME!
Paul O'Donovan is now a four-time world rowing champion. He's the greatest Irish rower of all time. He's an animal. Gold in the single in 2016 and 2017. Gold in the double in 2018 and 2019. An incredible sportsman.
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World champions, again! Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy have won gold in the men's lightweight double at the Worlds. It's now a hat-trick of world gold medals for the Skibbereen men. 🪙🪙🪙. Showing why they're the best in the world.
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Huge moment for West Cork rugby today as Jack Crowley made his World Cup debut, nailing all four of his conversion attempts in Ireland's 82-8 hammering of Romania. Jack came through
@bandonrfc
&
@bandongrammar
, and is the first West Cork man to play at a Rugby World Cup.
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It's official: Phil Healy will compete in THREE events at the Olympic Games.
The Ballineen bullet will run in the women's 200m & 400m, as well as the 4x400m mixed relay.
Phil is the first Irishwoman ever to qualify in three events for an Olympics. 💪
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🥇 Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy have been crowned
@WorldRowing
2021 Men's Crew of the Year.
Two Skibbereen men named as the best in the world. 👏
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The West Cork influence against France, eh.
Jack Crowley - Innishannon man who came through
@bandonrfc
& just crowned 2023 West Cork Sports Star of the Year.
Tadhg Furlong - his mother is from Whiddy Island.
Joe McCarthy - his father is from Castletownbere.
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To think
@ConorHourihane
left Bandon when he was 16 years old, chasing the dream of being a pro footballer, and now at 33, he's still adding chapters to his story. Brilliant to see. 👏
Conor Hourihane is the man for promotions - has been promoted for the third time in his career
1⃣ 2016, captained Barnsley to promotion to Championship
2⃣ 2019, helped Aston Villa win promotion to the Premier League
3⃣ 2024, captained Derby County to promotion to Championship
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Sean Meehan the only Cork footballer to leave Killarney with his reputation enhanced. He held David Clifford scoreless from play. Superb display by the Kiskeam man.
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Not often that Paul O'Donovan & Fintan McCarthy are caught off guard.
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Watch how Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy won gold at the World Rowing Championships. Incredible Irish performance.
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All that glitters in Skibbereen these days is actually Olympic gold.
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GOLDEN WONDERS!
Paul O'Donovan & Fintan McCarthy have defended their European men's lightweight double title with another majestic performance. The Skibb duo powered through the field in the second half of the A final. Utterly dominant, again. Back-to-back European champions.
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There is a common denominator to
@RowingIreland
's lightweight success, from 2016 to now. His name is Dominic Casey. The man with the plan. Coach Casey's results speak for themselves. Doesn't say much, but his rowers do his talking on the water.
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The nation holds its breath.
Best of luck to these two in their Olympic final.
Whatever happens, they've proved, regatta after regatta, they are the best in the world.
Hopefully they can finish the job.
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What a photo. The Wycherley brothers, Josh and Fineen, from Coomhola outside Bantry, celebrate Munster's United Rugby Championship final win. Look at how much it means, and to take this journey together.
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Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy doing what they do better than anyone else, winning rowing races. They eased to victory in the men's lightweight double sculls quarter-final, ahead of France and Spain, at the World Rowing Championships. On now to the A/B semi-final.
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For rent: half a football pitch in a prime Dublin location.
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16th place for Darragh McElhinney in men's 5000m final at the Europeans. He was in the top eight starting the last lap, but didn't kick on. But he did put himself in the mix heading into the last lap at a major championships. Bigger & better days ahead for the Glengarriff man.
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So, so impressive by
@philhealy2
to win her women's 400m heat at the
#WorldIndoorChamps
in Belgrade. She's through to this evening's semi-final. 💪
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Skibbereen Rowing Club's finest have swapped their oars for their glad rags tonight, as
@skibbrowing
holds its 50th anniversary gala ball & celebration of its Olympic athletes. They'll pay for their meals with Olympic & World medals.
📷 Anne Minihane
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HIGH FIVE FOR THE DREAM TEAM
In their last five international regattas together in the Irish men's lightweight double, Paul O'Donovan & Fintan McCarthy have won gold in every one. Dominant.
2019 Worlds 🥇
2021 & 2022 Europeans 🥇🥇
2021 World Rowing Cup II🥇
2021 Olympics 🥇
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They've done it! Skibbereen rower Aoife Casey & Margaret Cremen have qualified the Irish women's lightweight double for the 2024 Paris Olympics! 🇫🇷 🥳. They have won the B final at the Worlds!
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All-Star Limerick hurler Kyle Hayes celebrated the four-in-a-row by making his harness racing debut - on Newtown Shadow for Jamie Hurley (Reenascreena) - in Manch (West Cork) on Friday night! Reports say Hayes was as able with the reins as he is with the hurley.
📸 Kay Hurley
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ATTENTION: Please ignore typos in my tweets today. I am running on fumes.
If you want to blame anyone, blame the Skibb rowers. 😂
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There's something in the water in Cork, as well as West Cork. All four Irish rowing lightweight medallists at the Worlds hail from the Rebel County. Aoife Casey, Paul O'Donovan & Fintan McCarthy from Skibbereen and Margaret Cremen from Rochestown. Dominic Casey is their coach.
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Any chance ahead of the World Rowing Championships that
@WorldRowing
will update profile pics on their website. At the moment the world's best men's lightweight double looks like it has an extra from The Young Offenders & a 15-year-old Matt Damon.
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One for the Crowley family album at home in Innishannon, as Jack takes a selfie with his parents, Fachtna & Maria, and sister Tessa after Ireland's 13-8 Rugby World Cup pool win against South Africa.
📷
@Inphosports
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The mind boggles how the ref deemed this a second yellow for Maguire. Harsh is being kind.
Horrific challenge from Ian Maguire for his second yellow to get sent off.
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Aoife Casey's bronze medal in the lightweight women's double at the World Rowing Championships sees her become the first female Skibbereen rower to win a medal at the senior Worlds. Another landmark moment for the club. Another trailblazer inspiring the next generation.
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The moment John Hodnett earned the Freedom of Rosscarbery.
The big man for the big moment.
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That feeling when you've scored the winning point in an All-Ireland semi-final.
Take a bow,
@lindaccol14
. 👏
📸 Evan Treacy,
@Inphosports
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Just no stopping Olympic gold medallists Paul O'Donovan & Fintan McCarthy, representing
@UCCRowing
&
@skibbrowing
, who have won the Double Sculls Challenge Cup at
@HenleyRegatta
. Utterly dominant right now. 🥇
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Do these lads get the credit they deserve? They are dominating their sport. The best in the world. Raising standards and expectations. Two mighty ambassadors as well. There is a relentless to them that's so impressive. Forged in Skibb.
HIGH FIVE FOR THE DREAM TEAM
In their last five international regattas together in the Irish men's lightweight double, Paul O'Donovan & Fintan McCarthy have won gold in every one. Dominant.
2019 Worlds 🥇
2021 & 2022 Europeans 🥇🥇
2021 World Rowing Cup II🥇
2021 Olympics 🥇
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Watch Phil Healy in action for the Ireland 4x400 mixed relay team at the Olympics. The Ballineen woman ran the second leg as the Ireland team set a new national record of 3:12.88. 🔥
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The man from
@bandonrfc
, Jack Crowley, nails this penalty as Ireland beat reigning champions South Africa 13-8 in the World Cup!
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A HERO'S WELCOME!
Olympian Phil Healy received a great reception tonight when she landed home to Ballineen & Enniskeane. Phil comes home as an Olympic finalist and after competing in three events in Tokyo. She's an inspiration. 👏
📷
@MwmsportWalsh
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Good job that Cork held on to win, because how was this pull on Amy O'Connor in injury time not awarded as a penalty? 🤷♂️
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Bloodied and bruised, four West Cork men played their part in
@Munsterrugby
's 29-10 win against Scarletts. They're bred tough in West Cork.
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Here they are, the Irish 4x400m mixed relay team - including our own
@philhealy2
- that has just booked their place at the Olympics! What an incredible race at the World Relays. Through to the final tomorrow.
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Another proud day in the Cahalane household, as Orlaith Cahalane made her senior football debut for
@CorkLGFA
(in win v Mayo) and has now played senior football & camogie for Cork. She's also fifth sibling to play senior inter-county, after Damien, Conor, Jack & Meabh.
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Six years ago today (August 12th, 2016), two Lisheen lads, Gary & Paul O'Donovan, won Ireland's first-ever Olympic rowing medal with a superb silver in Rio. It put
@skibbrowing
on the world map. Two young fellas left Skibb that summer chasing a dream, they returned as legends.
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Coach Dominic Casey might have a job on his hands to get Gary O'Donovan back in a boat and on the water after the Skibb rower's performance in the kitchen. West Cork restaurants will be queuing up to get Gary & his Olympic-standard dishes on their menus! 👨🍳
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'We shattered the national record... it's unbelievable...there is so much more in this team'
Phil Healy shares her thoughts after Ireland 4x400 mixed relay team qualifies for an Olympic final!
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This is the Dominic Casey appreciation post.
Coach Casey was the third man in the Irish lightweight men's double in Tokyo. Has overseen incredible success from 2016 to now. Olympic gold & silver. Multiple World & European gold. The godfather of Irish lightweight rowing. Legend.
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We've had the most incredible few days. Memories to last a lifetime. I got to marry my princess in a castle. And, yes, I am a lucky, lucky man!
📷
@kpaprocki
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Alexa, show me the best lightweight rowers in the world right now.
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The Cork footballers aren't blinking. There is no change in their stance over the upcoming Munster SFC semi-final against Kerry on May 7th. They are standing by their original statement (see below). It's Páirc Uí Rinn or nowhere.
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'Ya, fuck it, some win in fairness', and Peter O'Mahony ducks for cover 😂
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Paul O'Donovan won his lightweight single sculls' heat at World Cup III in Lucerne by seven seconds earlier. He was the only man to break seven minutes in any of the heats. The A/B semi-finals are Saturday morning with the A final in the afternoon.
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Home are the heroes, as first cousins Gavin and Liam Coombes bring the URC trophy to
@SkibbereenRugby
today.
📽 Anne Minihane
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Paul O'Donovan is the gift that keeps on giving. Another international regatta, another gold to add to his collection, and he did it in style. Different class, as Jimmy Magee would say.
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For Cork hurling fans wondering how to spend the summer months, there's a game in Páirc Uí Chaoimh this Saturday afternoon where another Cork team could do with some more support ...
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Just an FYI, Phil Healy is from Ballineen in West Cork, hence why we call her the Ballineen Bullet. 🔥
She runs for Bandon AC. 🏃♀️
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Paul O'Donovan is a dual star with a difference. The Olympic gold rowing medalist (one half of
@WorldRowing
's 2021 Men's Crew of the Year) was in action at Irish intermediate cross-country c'ships on Sunday & he finished 34th as
@LeevaleAC
took club honours. Fast on land & water
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Discussion on Henley Regatta commentary about Paul O'Donovan as the most famous rower in the world. That's where he is at, in case people at home don't realise.
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It seems there is something in the water in Skibbereen, as it looks like
@skibbrowing
will have FIVE Olympians to cheer on in Tokyo this summer, as well as Coach Casey, the mastermind behind Rowing Ireland's lightweight success.
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Jennifer O'Leary, as we know her in West Cork, (Jennifer Curry in Armagh) is proving that class is permanent. The 8-time All-Star & 4-time senior All-Ireland winner with Cork scored 1-3 to fire Armagh into the All-Ireland premier junior camogie final. At 38, she's going strong.
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