The final 11 athletes for the Irish team at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games have been confirmed.
Para equestrian have a team of four that will represent Ireland at Versailles. Kate Kerr Horan returns to the Paralympic Games having made her debut at Tokyo 2020. The Wicklow native will travel with her horse Serafina to compete at the Paris Games.
Jessica McKenna will be making her first appearance at the Paralympics. She will be hoping to make a big impact with her horse, Davidoff.
Michael Murphy will be an integral member of the team on board of Cleverboy, as he aims to maintain some outstanding recent form at Paris.
Sarah Slattery will be making her debut at the Paralympic Games. The Galway native will bring her horse Savona to Paris and hope to make an immediate impact on the biggest stage.
Para triathlon will be represented at in Paris by three female athletes and two guides.
Cassie Cava will make her first appearance at the Paralympic Games for Team Ireland. She is an athlete that has been competing very well in recent times and will be very much looking forward to her opportunity to compete in Paris this summer.
Twin sisters Chloe MacCombe and Judith MacCombe have been selected in triathlon.
An Irish Para rowing boat makes its return to the Paralympic Games for the first time since London 2012 consisting of Katie O'Brien and Tiarnán O'Donnell.
O'Brien is a rowing star and traces her interest in Para sport back to watching the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Once she found rowing there was no turning back and she became a world champion Para Rower in her own right.
She clinched qualification for Paris 2024 through an outstanding performance at the World Championships last September.
O'Donnell is a relative newcomer to the sport but had shown huge potential as one of the best wheelchair basketball players in the country and showcased his ability in the PTSB NextGen programme before finding his way to rowing and now he will compete at Paris 2024.
The entire team featuring nine sports was presented at the RDS in a ceremony in front of their friends, families, dignataries and the wider Paralympics Ireland community.
Paralympics Ireland Chef de Mission Neasa Russell said: "We are really delighted to be presenting our full Team Ireland for the Paralympic Games.
"We are incredibly proud of the performances the athletes have put in to get to this point and we are really looking forward to supporting them reach their potential at Paris.
"We also must acknowledge the wonderful support staff around them that have worked tirelessly to get their teams to this point."
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