The Paralympic Council of Ireland recently announced the Irish team for the 2010 IPC World Swimming Championships. Eight swimmers will represent Ireland at the forthcoming Championships, to be held in Eindhoven, Holland from 15th – 25th August, 2010.

The squad includes Aer Lingus swimmer and Beijing 2008 Paralympic Finalist, Ellen Keane.  Speaking on the team announcement, Head of Paralympic Swimming Dave Malone said:

“I have been working with the athletes for towards the World Championships since my appointment as Head of Paralympic Swimming over a year ago. They have worked very hard over the last year and this is a group of very talented performers. Eindhoven is the perfect showcase opportunity for them to display their talent.”

Ellen will be taking part in the 100m Breaststroke, 100m Butterfly & 200m Individual Medley. Taking time out of her busy pre-competition schedule Ellen paused for breath and spoke with us in a quick fire interview.

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After rising to the rank of A- list celeb with his last article, a newly sun tanned Maurice McCrohan makes a welcome return to our website. Enjoy!

“…I was reading though last years Division 2 results getting myself and young Sinead psyched up for the Div 2′s. I scrolled down the list of club names and noted there were dolphins, sharks and jets among the competition!

I don’t wish to send the ALSC Committee into an apoplexy of EGM’S to consider changes of the club name and logos!. After all Arsenal, Liverpool and Everton are three stand alone football names,all of which have official and even unofficial nicknames!. But this did get me thinking that the best sporting clubs all have a nickname or a legend. Everyone knows who the All Blacks, Springboks, Kangaroos,Pumas etc are!.

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ALSC Girls U12 who came 1st in 200m IM relay

ALSC Boys U15 who came 1st in 200m Freestyle relay

ALSC Boys U12 who came 4th in 200m Freestyle relay

ALSC  Boys Division 1 Squad Photo.

Well done to all swimmers, the team have got off to a great start in both individual and team events. We’ll have more photos and a full gala report soon.

Photo courtesy: De Photo

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Gala report from Coach Paolo;

“…Here we are again……….. back from Limerick after competing in the Irish Age Groups Div 2 Gala. Three days of intense and exciting competition took place in an atmosphere, which was very warm in every sense.

The Gala was well organised, presenting only minor flaws. Everything went relatively well and sessions ended within the scheduled timeframe. We had a small team of 4 girls (Sinead, Megan, Ciara and Eilbhe), all of them in the under 12 Age group, one boy in the same Age group (Derek) and one in the under 16 (Michael). So the team was small in numbers but grand in spirit and attitude. They cheered and supported each other all the way throughout the three long days of competitions.

The first day we started with the girls in the water for the 100Bk. They all got fantastic Pbs with Eilbhe lowering hers by more than 3 seconds and Sinead missing the final for 0.04. Then it was Michael’s turn with the 200IM in which he swam very close to his Pb and almost made the podium.  Ciara, Megan, Sinead and Eilbhe had a fantastic medley relay, which almost made the final.

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