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AND STILL – Katie Taylor Stays Eire’s Most Cherished Sports activities Star


And nonetheless!

Katie Taylor retained her hottest athlete within the Eire crown.

The Bray boxer was confirmed ‘Eire’s Most Admired Athlete’ for the eighth 12 months in succession.

The annual Teneo Sport and Sponsorship Index discovered that Taylor continues to be Eire’s hottest athlete, garnering 15% of the vote after a 12 months during which she retained her standing as undisputed light-weight champion with victory over Amanda Serrano in Texas final month.

The Irish boxers helped Eire’s Paris Olympics group earn the ‘Staff of the 12 months’ tag with 28% of the vote, after taking residence an unprecedented haul of 4 gold and three bronze medals from the French capital.

Boxing additionally featured within the second of the 12 months, as double Olympic gold medal winner, Kellie Harrington’s rendition of ‘Grace’ following her gold medal win at Rolland Garros was named the ‘Most Memorable Sporting Second’ on 14percentof the vote. Joint second on this class on 11% are O’Donovan and McCarthy’s profitable gold medal defence in Paris and Taylor’s victory over Serrano in Houston.

Harrington additionally completed third within the ‘Most Admired Athlete’ checklist behind Taylor and Rhasidat Adeleke.

Rowing gold medallists Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy collectively occupy fourth spot, with Bundee Aki in fifth and jockey Rachael Blackmore in sixth.

Of the occasions most hotly anticipated in 2025, the lads’s Six Nations comes high of the checklist, garnering 30% of the vote, with the All-Eire senior hurling championship on 15% beating out the All-Eire senior soccer championship on 12%.

The Girls’s European Championship takes fourth spot on 7%, regardless of the absence of the Irish group who missed out on qualifying after an agonising loss to Wales final month.

Gaelic video games, incorporating Gaelic soccer, hurling, Women Gaelic soccer and camogie, is deemed Eire’s hottest sport on 20%, with soccer in second on 18%, and rugby putting third on 15%.

The TSSI is a complete 1,000 individual nationally consultant survey with quotas imposed throughout gender, area, age, and social class.



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