Time to hang up the Racket!Thankful to have had a professional Badminton career, supported by so many great people along the way. Grateful for the journey and looking forward to the next chapter #Grateful 🙏@irishbadminton@iresport@yonexbadmtn_uk @TeamIreland
🏸 “You’re out there on your own and it's a lonely world. . . You be going from place to place, Peru one week, Nigeria the next.”
🇮🇪 @rachaeldarragh6 is ready for her first #OlympicGames
✍️ For @dgldemocrat: https://t.co/DyUILfSWSY
Joshua Magee and Paul Reynolds🇮🇪 have won their opening match at the Indonesia Masters World Tour 500. The pair beat Castillo and Navarro 🇲🇽 21-11 21-11 so are now qualified for main draw.
Nhat Nguyen lost out to Arnaud Merkle 🇫🇷 21-13 18-21 21-17. 💪☘️
Europeans Men’s team qualification
Irish team Joshua Magee, Paul Reynolds, Sam Magee (Coach), Adam McAllister, Nhat Nguyen, Jonathan Dolan
Ireland first match is against Norway. Streaming available on Czech Badminton YouTube 🔗
https://t.co/jJASVNd9hf
*Breaking News*
Nhat Nguyen 🇮🇪 wins the AIG FZ Forza Irish Open 2023
Nhat Nguyen takes gold medal in the men’s singles of the Irish Open with an incredible win and comeback against Alex Lanier 🇫🇷 21-13 21-19
Rachael Darragh’s 🇮🇪 good run of form continues as she progresses though to the quarterfinal of the Abu Dhabi World Tour 100.
Rachael beat Jayme Laurens 🇳🇱 21-19 21-12 💪☘️
Massive win from Joshua Magee and Paul Reynolds 🇮🇪 on the World Tour in Madrid Spain 🇪🇸 this afternoon.
The Irish are now into the main draw after beating Ondrej Kral and Adam Mendrek 🇨🇿 21-18 21-18.
The Irish will now face Mitsuhashi and Okamura 🇯🇵 in the main draw 💪☘️
Fantastic start for Ireland 🇮🇪 at the Polish open as Joshua Magee and Moya Ryan are through to the main draw with wins over Ounmaa & Üprus 🇪🇪 and a 21-17 21-17 win over Cattoen & Vercelot 🇫🇷💪☘️
Plans for a new National Velodrome and Badminton Centre on the @SportIreCampus have been granted official planning approval.
Designed by @FaulknerBrowns Architects, this is an important step on the masterplan development of the Sport Ireland Campus.
https://t.co/VLv65h8vve
There's a trend playing out in coaching that we need to be paying attention to.
Good coaches are quitting, preferring to walk away than put themselves and their families through the lifestyle.
Sports should be the bastion of leadership, not the industry leaders are fleeing.
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**Guildea and Pontanosa take out ninth seeds**
Scot Guildea and Vincent Pontanosa played the match of their life to create a major upset on day two of the World Junior championships beating number 9 seeds Franconville and Lorrain 🇨🇭 15-21 24-22 22-20
**Massive Upset at Dutch open**
Rachael Darragh 🇮🇪 has beaten the number 3 seed Julie Dawall Jakobsen 🇩🇰 21-15 21-17 to progress to last 16 event. 🙌💪☘️
Fantastic performance from our junior athletes taking three 🥇 and one 🥈at the Irish U19 open Badminton Europe circuit event. The players have worked really hard throughout the summer and have received fantastic support from @sportireland and the Sport Ireland Institute team💪☘️
On my visit Donegal it was great to meet with Irish Olympian @chloenmagee this morning alongside my @fiannafailparty colleague @niall_blaney in @Royalandprior.
Chloe is doing amazing work growing badminton in the area and getting more people participating in sport 🏸
**World Championship update**
Joshua Magee and Paul Reynolds 🇮🇪 are through to the last 32 of the World Championships in Japan 🇯🇵
The Irish number ones beat Fabricio Farias and Francielton Farias 🇧🇷 21-18 21-19 in what was a very even match. The Irish will now face the 11 seeds.
Spent morning in company of @chloenmagee at brilliant Raphoe Badminton Club
Superb, until-now-unnoticed work going on behind the yew trees in corner of the Diamond
85 kids, with a group of 14 in a high performance environment with Chloe
Tomorrow’s @dgldemocrat
📸 @NWNewspix