Echo Sport in Review: June 2023
PLENTY OF memories were made at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Berlin with Team Ireland returning a haul of 75 medals through 73 athletes, with a strong Palmerstown Wildcats contingent helping Ireland Women’s Basketball five-a-side team win gold.
Lucan United Football Club senior mens’ team secured the Metropolitan Cup for the first time in their club’s history with a huge final win over Bluebell United, being named The Echo Team of the Month for June.
Having already won the All-Ireland Cup and Under DDSL Premier Division, Shamrock Rovers Under 12s completed the treble by beating St Joseph’s 3-0 in the DDSL Tom Kavanagh Cup Final.
Tallaght athletic club athlete Sean Aigboboh, representing High School in Rathgar, won the Senior 100m title at the All-Ireland Schools Championships in Tullamore.
Lucan Community College students, Amy and Ryan Wade both won 5 National titles (5 golds and 1 silver medal) at the Kickboxing Ireland National Championships in University College Dublin sports campus.
Siblings Amy and Ryan Wade, who go to Lucan Community College, both won five national titles at the Kickboxing Ireland National Championships in UCD
Tallaght Martial Arts, which celebrated 30 years in 2023, won five gold medals, two silver and six bronze at the Points Fighter Cup in Milan, Italy.
Tallaght’s Shauna Bannon turned dream into reality when she penned a deal with the Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC).
Two big hitters in the Leinster Senior League, Bluebell United and Lucan United, clashed in the Metropolitan Cup Final, with the former seizing the title on a 1-2 scoreline.
Rhasidat Adeleke put the world on notice with a striking gold medal win at the NCAA Championships in Texas, shattering her own 400m national record in the process.
Tallaght Athletic Club athlete Rhasidat Adeleke became the first Irish sprinter to win an NCAA title after registering a meet-record and Irish record time of 49.20
Tallaght AC athletes had a thrilling time at the Dublin Juvenile Championships with eight titles, Franklin Onwuzulumba accounting for three golds.
There was a feast of hurling and camogie action at Croke Park for the Cumann na mBunscol Finals, with Scoil Saintain, Scoil Aine, Scoil Mhuire Woodview, GS Naomh Padraig, St Mary’s Rathfarnham, Gaelscoil Eiscir Riada, Presentation Terenure, and Bishop Galvin all winning titles.
Fleur Quinn from Scoil Mhuire in Woodview and teammates celebrate after beating St Columbas NS, Glasnevin in the Cumann na mBunscol Corn INTO final (Photo by Sportsfile)
After winning the Division Two Féile last year and enjoying a run in the national competition, Thomas Davis won the Dublin Ladies Gaelic Football Division Three title.
Fifteen-year-old Tallaght lad Daire Flock won five races out of six in the Junior Saloon Car Championship across two weeks in Australia.
World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year Billy Dardis, from Terenure College, and Terry Kennedy, from St Mary’s College, helped Ireland Men’s Rugby Sevens side qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France.
Jobstown native Jack Woolley secured Ireland’s first medal at the 2023 European Games, taking silver in Taekwondo Men’s-58kg event in Poland.
