"Some of them have been really close, they have been fingertips away from a medal.
"The reality is the margins are that tight. Yes, it's six medals, and we’ll own that but definitely we were in the hunt for others realistically."
Twelve top-four placings, six PBs and five national records are testament that some peaked well for Paris, yet building up squad depth is crucial for any future success.
Twenty-nine athletes, plus half a dozen pilots and guides travelled to France, while the likes of Ellen Keane, Eve McCrystal and Ronan Grimes have said they won’t be back for Los Angeles.
Team Ireland’s medal winners – Katie-George Dunlevy with pilots Eve McCrystal (track) and Linda Kelly (road), swimmer Róisín Ní Riain and sprinter Orla Comerford – have raised awareness around vision impairment and as far as McNamara is concerned, the lack of men on the podium is not an issue.
"It’s not rocket science," he says. "We’ve managed to promote women to such a level that now all of our medals have been won by female athletes, which we celebrate.
"The male athletes put in phenomenal performances and were unlucky in some instances, but I think that will self-correct by the time we get to Los Angeles. I don’t think we have an issue."
Organisers announced on Sunday that Paris 2024 sold a record combined 12 million tickets for the Olympics and Paralympics, beating the Games record previously set by London 2012.
Some 9.5m tickets were sold for the Olympics and 2.5m for the Paralympics.
In 2012, London organisers set the record for the Paralympics with 2.7m tickets sold but only 8.2m were sold for the Olympics.
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