ANOTHER AGONINSING NEAR miss last night for Team Ireland at the Paralympics, as Róisín Ní Riain finished fourth in the 100m breaststroke final and just fell short of adding to her brilliant tally of two medals from Paris 2024.
Today attention turns to the action on day nine and there’s plenty to keep an eye on, with RTÉ live from the French capital throughout the day.
Which Irish athletes are competing — and when can I watch them?
First up at 8.30am is cyclist Ronan Grimes in the C4-5 Road Race, and then it’s back to the pool where Barry McClements competes at 9.18am in swimming in the first heat of the S9 100m fly. If he progresses there, he’ll have a final to prepare for at 5.35pm.
Sarah Slattery competes in Grade V of the Equestrian Team Dressage at 10.19am.
The focus then switches back to cycling with Damien Vereker and Mitchell McLaughlin featuring in the Men’s B road race at 12pm, before the Women’s B road race at 12.10pm will include Katie George Dunlevy and her pilot Linda Kelly, along with Josephine Healion and her pilot Eve McCrystal.
There is more equestrian action in the afternoon, Michael Murphy in the team dressage Grade I at 12.55pm, before Kate Kerr-Horan competes in Grade III of the team event at 3.12pm.
Ireland Medal Watch
It’s already been a week of stunning success for Katie-George Dunlevy: silver in the Track Individual Pursuit last Sunday with Eve McCrystal, and gold in the Women’s B Individual Time Trial on Wednesday with Linda Kelly.
She is back in the spotlight for today’s road race with Kelly.
Do Not Miss…
Away from a packed schedule for Irish athletes, there is plenty swimming and athletics finals to watch out for this afternoon and evening.
In table tennis, the men’s gold medal match at 4pm sees Rungroj Thainiyom of Thailand play the Italian Matteo Parenzan, while at 5pm the women’s gold medal match places Jing Liu of China against Giada Rossi of Italy.
At 6.30pm, the sitting volleyball men’s gold medal match will be contested by Bosnia & Herzegovina and Iran.
- With reporting from Emma Duffy
Duff has gone from being an Irish footballing hero to someone you’d cross the street from, just in case he’d start a conversation with ya
Duff seems to be a really miserable guy with these comments.
@James Murphy: He talks shit
@orb7eckn: . Nah. He’s dead right. What they have worked so hard to achieve is within their grasp. Everything they do between now and Monday is done with the biggest game in the recent history of the club in mind. They are looking for the biggest performance of their lives on Monday and he’s driving them towards that. What he has achieved at Shelbourne is top class and it could be about to get better.
Just trying to garner some headlines and …… get some personal coverage. The best manager is the one that just gets on with the job!
He’s seriously tiresome now. Bore off Duffer
Duffer you are truly losing the run of yourself son…your not Jose and even he wouldn’t come out with that tripe..
You wonder what motivates him or why he’s like this; his comments about the FAI staff (note: not the Board, not the Management team but junior and administrative employees) last month were wide of the mark, insensitive, misinformed and wildly inappropriate. An unlikeable individual.
@John Coffey: he apologised unreservedly for those comments
@SYaxJ2Ts: Why apologise if he said what HE believes! It just proves my belief
“put your brain in gear before moving your mouth”
@John Coffey: i hear you john ….i wonder are all obsessive winners overbearing in their will to succeed… lots of successful managers in football have a cold mean streak at times….he’s definitely not the happy go lucky relaxed young fella at chelsea 20 years ago
@Ollie Fitzpatrick: except he doesn’t believe what he said about all the staff….we all occasionally say stuff that we don’t truly believe, and then regret it
Is he for real…what a miserable human being…