Thread by @IrelandEmbGB

We’re #CelebratingIrish success in sport today, highlighting a few of the many Irish athletes with British connections and British athletes with Irish connections as well as the thriving GAA community in GB. 🇮🇪🇬🇧⚽️🏊🏐🏃‍♂️

Many members of @TeamIreland have connections with or trained & competed in GB in the run up to the Tokyo @Olympics & @Paralympics.🇯🇵🇮🇪🇬🇧

#Irish diver Tanya Watson will be making history at #Tokyo2020 as the first ever Irish female diver to compete in the Olympics.👏👏 #WomenInSport #TeamIreland @swimireland

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Born in Southampton, Tanya's grandmother hails from Derry & Tanya spent much of 2020-21 training at the @nacdublin alongside @OliverDingley, another British-born #IrishDiver competing in Tokyo this month. Adh mhór to them both🤞☘️

Derry sprinter @smyth_jason is competing for #TeamIreland at the Tokyo @Paralympics this summer, hoping to add to his incredible 5 #paralympic gold medals, 9 world & 6 European championship titles.🥇👉 irishexaminer.com/sport/otherspo…

Jason also represented Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth games in Glasgow in 2014 & holds the world record in the T13 100m & 200m events making him the fastest Paralympian in history. 🏃‍♂️🏆🌍

There are many #Irishconnections to the #inspiring England football team who made it to the #Euro2020 finals this month.

Captain Harry Kane along with Harry Maguire, Declan Rice & Jack Grealish all have #IrishRoots with Grealish playing underage Gaelic football with @JMGAABrum.

Yorkshire-born former Irish International football legend Mick McCarthy- ‘Captain Fantastic’- clocked 57 caps for Ireland as a player & captain before later becoming manager of the Irish team from 1996-2002 & 2018-2020. ⚽️🇮🇪

McCarthy has managed several clubs in GB over his career and is currently manager of @CardiffCityFC who have seen an ‘emphatic upturn in form’ with McCarthy’s tenure: cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news/mick-mcca…

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Since the opening of the London County Board of @officialgaa 125 years ago, GAA in Britain has prospered with over 80 clubs around the country & thousands of 1st, 2nd & 3rd generation Irish athletes enjoying Ireland’s national sports- gaelic football, hurling, camogie & handball.

Britain is home to the only provincial council of the GAA outside of Ireland, the @BPCGAA with the legendary Sam Maguire beginning his career in London & captaining the London Hibernians to several all-Ireland finals, before becoming chairperson of the @LondainGAA himself.

Earlier this month, @ScotlandGAA celebrated a truly historic event as the first competitive senior hurling match in Scotland since 1913 was played between Scotland’s first hurling & camogie club @ceanncreigeclub & the @Lpoolwolfetones.

@irlscotland @IrlNorthEngland

Yesterday evening, the Embassy hosted the launch of the 9th annual GAA All Britain Championship @ABCGAAmes, which brings together some of the finest GAA clubs & school teams in Britain to compete at a national level in Gaelic football, hurling and camogie.

Ambassador @AdrianGONeill met with President of @BPCGAA, Noel O’Sullivan and other leaders from British GAA to officially launch this year’s competition, which will take place in September. #ABCs