Ireland at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Ireland is scheduled to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024, commemorating its centenary of the team's debut as an independent country in the same venue. Irish athletes have competed in every Summer Olympics edition of the modern era, either in its own right or as part of a Great Britain and Ireland team before 1924, except for the Nazi-ruled Berlin 1936 Olympics.

Ireland will send a record 133 athletes to the Games, across 15 sports. 2024 also marks the centenary of Ireland's first independent appearance at the 1924 Olympic Games, also in Paris, after the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922.

Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Athletics
Irish track and field athletes achieved the entry standards for Paris 2024, either by passing the direct qualifying mark (or time for track and road races) or by world ranking, in the following events (a maximum of 3 athletes each):


 * Key
 * Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
 * Q = Qualified for the next round
 * q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
 * NR = National record
 * N/A = Round not applicable for the event
 * Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Track & road events

Non Travelling Reserves Cliodhna Manning & Roisin Harrison Mixed 4x400m & Womens 4x400m Relays

Field events


 * Combined events – Women's heptathlon

Badminton
Ireland entered two badminton players into the Olympic tournament based on the BWF Race to Paris Rankings. The team was officially announced on 29 May 2024.

Boxing
Ireland entered ten boxers (four men and the maximum six women) into the Olympic tournament. Tokyo 2020 Olympians Michaela Walsh (women's featherweight), Aoife O'Rourke (women's middleweight), and defending champion Kellie Harrington, along with two other rookies (Dean Clancy and Jack Marley), secured the spots on the Irish squad in their respective weight divisions, either by advancing to the semifinal match or finishing in the top two, at the 2023 European Games in Nowy Targ, Poland. Joining the squad, Jude Gallagher (men's featherweight) earned a quota for himself by winning the quota bouts round, at the 2024 World Olympic Qualification Tournament 1 in Busto Arsizio, Italy. Jennifer Lehane (women's bantamweight), Daina Moorehouse (women's flyweight) and Grainne Walsh (women's welterweight) and Aidan Walsh (men's welterweight) secured their spots following their triumphs in quota bouts, at the 2024 World Olympic Qualification Tournament 2 in Bangkok, Thailand. The team was officially named on 28 June 2024. Harrington, Marley & O'Rourke were all Seeded


 * Men


 * Women

Slalom
Ireland qualified a boat in the men's C-1 class, and men's K-1 class at the 2023 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Lee Valley, London. They also qualified a boat in the women's K-1 class as a result of their result in the 2023 European Games. All slalom canoeists will also be eligible for the extreme kayak/kayak cross event.

Road
Ireland entered three road cyclists (two male and one female). Ireland qualified two male and one female through the UCI Nation Ranking and 2023 World Championships in Glasgow, Great Britain. Selection 19th July

Track
A silver medal finish in the 2024 UCI Track Cycling Nations Cup event in Hong Kong ensured that the Ireland women's team pursuit team could not finish below tenth overall in the Team Pursuit world rankings, and thus guaranteed qualification in all three women's endurance events in Paris.

Pursuit

Reserve Erin Creighton

Omnium

Madison

Diving
Main articles: Diving at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Diving at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Jake Passmore was announced as bring selected to compete for Ireland in the men’s 3m Springboard on 28 June 2024.

Equestrian
Ireland entered a full squad of equestrian riders each to the team eventing and jumping competitions through a top-five finish in jumping at the 2022 FEI World Championships in Herning, Denmark, and through a top-six finish at the Eventing Worlds on the same year in Pratoni del Vivaro, Italy. Ireland also entered one rider in the dressage individual events, through the establishments of final olympics ranking for Group A (North Western Europe).

Dressage
Qualification Legend: Q = Qualified for the final based on position in group; q = Qualified for the final based on overall position

Field hockey
Summary Key:
 * FT – After full-time.
 * P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Men's tournament
Ireland men's national field hockey team qualified for the Olympics after a top three finish at the 2024 FIH Olympic Qualifiers in Valencia, Spain.

Team roster

Group play

Golf
Ireland entered four golfers into the Olympic tournament. In the Men's individual Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry qualified directly for the games, based on their respective world ranking positions, on the IGF World Rankings. In the Women's individual Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow will represent Ireland.

Artistic
Rhys McClenaghan achieved a quota place for Ireland at the Paris 2024 Artistic Gymnastics meet by winning gold in the Pommel horse at the 2023 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and was selected on 5 June 2024. As a pommel specialist, he is not expected to compete across all apparatus, but is entitled to do so.

Rowing
Irish rowers qualified boats in each of the following classes through the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia and the final Olympic Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland. The team was named on 20 June 2024.


 * Men

Coxless Pair Reserve: Holly Davis
 * Women

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Rugby sevens
Summary

Men's tournament
Ireland national rugby sevens team qualified for the Olympics by winning the gold medal and securing an outright berth at the 2023 European Games in Kraków. Both squads were named on 17 June 2024.


 * Team roster


 * Group stage

Women's tournament
Ireland women's national rugby sevens team qualified for the first time at the Olympics by securing the last of four available spots in the 2022–23 World Rugby Sevens Series, registering a historic victory over Fiji at the final leg in Toulouse.


 * Team roster


 * Group stage

Sailing
Irish sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2023 Sailing World Championships in The Hague, Netherlands, 2023 49er European Championship in Vilamoura, Portugal, and 2024 ILCA 6 World Championships in Mar del Plata, Argentina. The team was announced on 18 June 2024.

Medal race events M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Swimming
Irish swimmers achieved the entry standards in the following events for Paris 2024 (a maximum of two swimmers under the Olympic Qualifying Time (OST) and potentially at the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT)): To assure their selection to the Irish roster, swimmers must attain the Olympic qualifying cut in the final (or in heat-declared winner races on time for long-distance freestyle) of each individual pool event at any of the domestic meets approved by World Aquatics, Olympic Federation of Ireland, and Swim Ireland: the 2023 World Aquatics Championships (23–30 July in Fukuoka), the 2024 World Aquatics Championships (2–18 February in Doha), and the 2024 Irish Open Championships (currently set for May 2024), if necessary and available. The team was announced on 4 July 2024.

Taekwondo
Ireland qualified one athlete to compete at the games. Jack Woolley qualified for Paris 2024 following the triumph of his victory in the men's under 58 kg semifinal, at the 2024 European Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria.