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Wouldn’t it be great to hear more about top Irish sports stars who are competing for Ireland all across the Continent.

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Wouldn’t it be great to hear more about top Irish sports stars who are competing for Ireland all across the Continent.

EuropeanIrish.com will feature any sport and all age groups too, if you are Irish and competing in Europe – you are just as important as the Irish Senior soccer team or Munster Rugby, or the Olympic Athletes.EuropeanIrish.com wants to hear from you all - simply visit http://www.europeanirish.com/ News and add the News story.

or maybe you are based in Europe and run a club or a member of one which features a number of irish players, - if you have a news story add it.The Irish in Europe would love to read about it.

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Irish successful Bobsleigh team

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Bobsleigh

Did you know that Ireland has a women’s bobsleigh team?

Aoife Hoey does more than just competes in the Womens Bobsleigh European Cup.

It was held across different European courses in November

In Konigsee Germany, located along and bobsleigh world cups and Lake Konigsee, and near a national park – I has always been a crowd puller for the skiing championships.

Held on the 29th November the 2nd round of the European Championships(EC)

Aoife Hoey came 14th in Europe, ahead of Austria;s top 2 contestants, and top entries from Canada, Russia, Czech Republic, and France

 

4 days earlier, in Igls Austria, Aoife , with Jennifer Ann Corcoran were beaten to a bronze medal by 0.28 of a second.  Coming a terrific 5th place in this European Cup  was indeed an outstanding achievement -

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