olympics

'A good day for Michelle at the 1992 Olympics consisted of not drowning in the pool' This week on Up To 90, the year is 1996 and Atlanta Georgia is hosting the Olympic games. Despite having faired pretty poorly in previous Olympic outings,…

With the popularity of competitive gaming growing throughout the world, there has been a push for more visibility in the public arena. Where negative stigma used to incur quite a bit of push back, we’re actually starting to see change in…

Joining us in the FAIRGAME hotseat is a woman who’s been a regular on the international stage since she was just 13 years old - three Olympic tournaments later and she is a fully fledged Olympian with the Bronze Medal to prove it. She’s a…

The Olympics. Philosophy. Big marble statues of naked dudes wrestling. Lots of extraordinary things came from Ancient Greece, Direct Democracy being chief among them. This week, Steve and Richie of What Am Politics? learn all about the…

PyeongchangThe 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, features athletes from 92 countries competing over the course of one hundred events. In addition to the thrilling spectacle of seeing some of the world's best athletes…

Gearóid meets athlete Oliver Dingley the olympic diver who changed nations to become the first diver in sixty eight years to represent Ireland in the Olympic games. He then made history by becoming the first Irish diver to make it to the…

The first Olympic medal won by the Irish Free State was a silver medal in 1924, awarded Jack Butler Yeats for his 1923 painting The Liffey Swim. That may seem surprising today, however between 1912 and 1948 the arts took pride of place…

I'm not a sporty person. In primary school, we used to play football every day at small and big break. I was always picked last. I scored a goal once. Another time I did a handball by accident and one of my teammates insisted it wasn't a…

Hello. My name is Ellen and I for one think there just aren’t enough sports tournaments for straight men out there! I have decided to remedy this by hosting the first ever Straight Man Olympics. The only criteria are that you are a straight…