Kellie Harrington’s mother Yvonne, her brother Christopher and a neighbour celebrate outside Kellie’s family home at Portland Row in Dublin, after her Tokyo 2020 Olympics lightweight final bout against Beatriz Ferreira of Brazil.

Oran Crowley (11) Staker Wallace GAA club, Ben Egan (6), Mike Carroll, Ted Egan (9), David Magner (9) and Jack Egan (8) all from Effin, read a newspaper before the Munster GAA Hurling Senior Championship match between Tipperary and Limerick in Semple Stadium, Thurles, Co. Tipperary

7 August 2011; Shane O'Neill, Clare, in action against Owen Teagle, Galway. GAA Hurling All-Ireland Minor Championship Semi-Final

The Limerick goalkeeper Eoghan McNamara clears under pressure from Waterford corner forward Patrick Curran

Players from Ferns GAA Club, including three-year-old Paudie Moynihan, third from left, shake hands with the Camross GAA Club, Co Laois, players after their game

Seamus Hickey and Richie McCarthy, Limerick, in action against Mark Kelly and TJ Reid, Kilkenny, during the GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Semi-Final

Milford players Elaine O’Riordan, Orlaith O’Mahony, Ashling Thompson and Anna Geary celebrate at the final whistle

Peter Harte, Tyrone, and Tom Cunniffe, Mayo, clash shoulder-to-shoulder in the sixth minute of the All-Ireland football semi-final. Harte subsequently left the field following this clash

Michael Murphy and Neil Gallagher, Donegal, are outnumbered by Mayo’s Donal Vaughan, Lee Keegan, Séamus O’Shea and Colm Boyle during the second half of their quarter-final clash

Galway's Joe Canning watches the flight of the sliothar after taking a line ball. GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Semi-Final

Action from Old Belvedere against Blackrock College. Ulster Bank All-Ireland League Division 1A, Old Belvedere v Blackrock College RFC

Captain Geoff Curran on The Jump Jet in advance of the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games

Padraic Maher, Tipperary, tries to block a clearance by Stephen Molumphy, Waterford during the GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Semi-Final between Waterford and Tipperary at Croke Park, Dublin

Eoin Kelly, Tipperary, 2008 All-Stars, is tackled unconventionally by his Waterford namesake Eoin Kelly, 2009 All-Stars. GAA Hurling All-Stars Tour 2009, Hurlingham Hurling Club, Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Twelve-year-old Waterford supporter Sean O’Sullivan, from Ballysaggart, cries during the last ten minutes of the All-Ireland Final between Kilkenny and Waterford at Croke Park, Dublin.

Limerick supporters Brendan Carr, five years, from Pallasgreen and Ger Pigott and his terrier before the Munster Semi Final.

Waterford's Ken McGrath, left, is consoled by Limerick captain Damien Reale after the All-Ireland semi-final in August 2007.

Josephat Kipkoviv of Kenya on his way to winning the 5,000-metre final during the Special Olympics World Summer Games at Dublin's Morton Stadium in June 2003

Republic of Ireland Manager Jack Charlton celebrates after victory over Italy in Giants Stadium, New York, during the 1994 World Cup.