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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.

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.

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2008 Athletics events across the Continent with Irish participation have been added today.

The Brand new website is going live his week.

we are currently tranfering the data from the existing site to the new one.

There are many  athletics events this year, chances than no matter what part of Europe you are based - Irish athletes will be competing nearby sometime this year.
These include events in Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Turkey, Russia, Estonia, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland and Belgium.
You can even start planning for 2009, with events in Russia, Italy, Lithuania, Serbia, Finland, Germany and Ireland all added already.

currently can be seen at

http://www.europeanirish.com/new/events.php

1. European Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships - Oct 2007 Acrobatics 24 October 2007
Qualification: 24 Oct:
Judges : Irish Jackie O’Herlihy, Jim O’Leary,
Age Group Women’s Pairs:
Ireland PAIR 1: O`BRIEN Kim, LEHANE Leigh, came 11th
Ireland PAIR 2: MURPHY Michelle, MONGAN Rebecca came 19th in Europe.
Ireland TRIO 1 WHELAN Ciara, BARRETT Hannah, O`BRIEN Jessica came 21st

JUNIOR WOMEN’S PAIR
Ireland PAIR 1: BARRETT Mary, RENNICK Sara came 12th

FINALS AG WOMEN’S PAIR
Ireland PAIR 1 IRL O`BRIEN Kim, LEHANE Leigh came 8th
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2007 Northern European Championships 04 October 2007 Venue: Dublin City University All Disciplines
3. Kim O’Brien and Leigh Lehane Finalists in European Age Groups, Amsterdam 2007
Kim O’Brien and Leigh Lehane from Ballincollig Gymnastics Club have made finals in the 11-16 age group in the European Age Group Championships. Michelle Murphy and Rebecca Mongen (Tuam All Stars)also
http://www.irishgymnastics.ie

4. Ireland competed at the World Championships on September 3rd in Stuttgart Germany
Ireland competed at the World Championships on Monday, September 3rd. Drawn in subdivision 4 on the first day of the men’s qualifiers, they competed alongside teams such as China, Belarusia and Bulgaria. Paired with Austria, in front of a packed Porsche arena in Stuttgart cheered on by a small but noisy set of Irish supporters, the Irish team of Mathew Cosgrave, Luke Carson and Wayne Healy turned in a fine performance….
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5. Junior World Cup, Tumbling Finals & results Poland 2007
Congratulations to Jessie McFadden and Aoife Kiely from the International Performance Group who made finals in the Junior World Cup event in Poland this past weekend the 30th August - 2nd September.
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6. Aphrodite Cup 2007 Cyprus
Congratulations to Artistic National Squad members Sarah Wedel and Aimee O’Driscoll for their performances at the Aphrodite Cup in Cyprus last weekend. Despite the heat, both girls performed well in …

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7. European Youth Olympic Festival
03-Aug-07
Gymnasts Emma Gorman (City of Lisburn) Aimee O’Driscoll (Douglas) and Rebecca Wallace (City of Lisburn) travelled to the European Youth Olympic Festival from the 18th – 28th July in Belgrade, Serbia.
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8. World Cup Junior Event - Belgium - Fliffis Cup

The Tumbling International Performance Group have done it again. Four out of the five gymnasts who went to this prestigious Junior World Cup Event made finals. Gillian Clarke (Millenium GC), Jenny Ryan (FIBE GC), Karyn Twomey (Ballincollig GC) and Jessie McFadden (Killeevan GC) all came in the top eight in the prelims to make finals.
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http://www.irishgymnastics.ie/irish_gymnastics_results.cfm

Aoife Kiely has taken the silver medal at the 2007 World Age Group Tumbling Championships at the Expo centre in Quebec, Canada - beating one Russian and the British tumblers in the 13-14 category.
Gillian Clarke also was placed 6th in the same event.

This is a key age to world gymnastics, so for an Irish girl to be defeating most in the world is a hugely significant achievement.

Back in March, Aoife from Ballincollig Club Co.Cork, won the Gold at the Portuguese Open International.

to follow - other significant European results by Irish Gymnastics.