2016 Olympic Games

TODAY’S ROWING schedule at the Olympic Games in Rio has been postponed due to bad weather, leaving Sinead Jennings playing a waiting game again. Jennings left to play the waiting…

WHEN IT FINALLY arrived, Sinead Jennings could only look around in wonder.

WHEN THE 17-year-old Chloe Magee completed her Leaving Certificate in 2006, she had a choice to make. Donegal’s Olympians, part 6: Chloe Magee, chances, choices and courage was last modified:…

THE OLD Kilmacrennan Parish Sports saw the start of it all: a chance meeting that would shape history. Donegal’s Olympians, part 5: Danny McDaid, the ‘Flying Postman’ and double Olympian…

SINEAD JENNINGS and Claire Lambe are through to the semi-finals of the lightweight women’s double sculls at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. Sinead Jennings reaches Olympic semi-final was last…

SINEAD JENNINGS will finally get her Olympic bid underway this afternoon in Rio.

WHEN BRIAN ANDERSON moved from Carrickmagrath in Ballybofey to North Kensington in London 1958, his first port of call was to join a local boxing club. Donegal’s Olympians, part 4:…

SINEAD JENNINGS will have to wait at least another day for her Olympic debut after today’s rowing action in Rio was postponed. High winds in Rio leave Sinead Jennings waiting…

WHEN SINEAD JENNINGS, now competing as Sinead Lynch, her married name, takes to the start line at Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas in Rio this afternoon, it will be the culmination…

TIMES WERE much different in 1956 when Pa Sharkey represented Ireland at the Olympic Games in Melbourne. Donegal’s Olympians, part 3: Pa Sharkey, a change of job and a knockout…