Author Archives: Aaron McAllorum

Where to now?

Camogie?

Crown bowls?

Children’s rounders?

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Stop that.

This morning.

Sandymount, Dublin 4.

The launch of the Achill Half-Marathon 20i9 with, above from left: Matt Cooper, Brendan Courtney, Sean Molloy and Cory Kilbane.

The Half-Marathon and 10k run, sponsored by Volvo Ireland, takes place on Saturday, July 6.

Achill Half-Marathon

Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland

This afternoon.

Gigginstown To be Wound Down (the Irish Field)

Yesterday.

Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin.

The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series debuted in Ireland with a sun-soaked competition in front of an estimated 145,000 at Dún Laoghaire Harbour.

Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series

Pics 1-3: Dean Treml

Middle pic: Emmet Martin

Meanwhile…

US diver David Colturi in action yesterday.

Pic by Barbara McCarthy

Last night.

Brian Kerr celebrates Spurs’ victory over Ajax in the Champions League semi-final.

Tottenham will now play Liverpool in the final in Madrid, Spain on June 1.

FIGHT!

Brian O’Driscoll (top centre) has joined Ireland-based athleisure clothing firm Gym+Coffee as ‘Head of Community’.

BOD will oversee charity and community projects for the firm, founded by Niall Horgan (top left), Karl Swaine and Diarmuid McSweeney (top right).

Diarmuid writes;

Brian is someone we feel truly embodies the Gym+Coffee ethos- to Make Life Richer. Gym+Coffee will be running its annual Summer Stretch Series, throughout the month of June, and Brian will be issuing a ‘Call to Arms’ to get involved! June will be packed with events taking place throughout the month from instore to local parks and group hikes.

Brian and the G+C team will be challenging the community to make time during their weekends to get active, spend time outside and get to know more members of the Gym+Coffee Make Life Richer community!

Gym+Coffee

Thanks Lia Stokes

This morning.

Via Belfast Feminist Network

Many of us who opposed his return to Ulster in April 2018 continue to oppose his return to a team in the UK particularly one that represents the Irish community living in London. Irish women rose up in their thousands following the trial of Jackson and his team mates for rape.

While the courts did not convict him, the undisputed evidence of rank misogyny and the details of a sexual encounter that left a young woman weeping and bleeding on the back seat of a taxi shook the whole country.

We did not believe then that Jackson and his co-accused Olding should represent our community and our country in a sport that places considerable trust in its elite players as role models.

Belfast Feminist Network

South African runner and double Olympic and World Champion Caster Semenya

BBC reports:

Caster Semenya has lost a landmark case against athletics’ governing body meaning it will be allowed to restrict testosterone levels in female runners.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) rejected the South African’s challenge against the IAAF’s new rules.

But Cas said it had “serious concerns as to the future practical application” of the regulations.

Olympic 800m champion Semenya, 28, said in response to the ruling that the IAAF “have always targeted me specifically”.

“For a decade the IAAF has tried to slow me down, but this has actually made me stronger. The decision of Cas will not hold me back,” the statement continued.

Caster Semenya: Olympic 800m champion loses appeal against IAAF testosterone rules (BBC)

Read the Cas decision in full here