The Swim Ireland Podcast

Our final episode in the series features the passionate Brian Sweeney, who is head coach at Templeogue Swimming Club, home of Ellen Walshe - the first Irish woman to swim 100m Butterfly in less than 60 seconds.Team TSC is a thriving club with swimmers joining after Learn to Swim and continuing all the way through to Masters level, including getting involved in Open Water.It's home is a small pool in Dublin, which Brian and Ellen are at the heart of. She first entered Brian's radar aged ...

Steven Beckerleg, National Centre Dublin senior assistant coach, is our guest on the penultimate episode in The Swim Ireland Podcast Coaching Series!Steven works closely with National Senior Team Head Coach Ben Higson, coaching the likes of Olympian Shane Ryan and Darragh Greene, who has met the qualifying time for the Tokyo 2021 Olympics.Steven also leads Swim Ireland's F4-24 Programme, which aims to qualify a female relay team for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.Having suffered big highs and l...

Episode 4 of the Swim Ireland Podcast Coaching Series features John Szaranek, head coach at National Centre Limerick, presently the home of rising star Eoin Corby and London 2012 Paralympian Jonathan McGrath.The Scot has dedicated his life to swimming, meeting his wife while they both competed at teenagers, starting coaching through his swimming sons, and now moving his life to Ireland to oversee a hugely promising group of potential Olympians and Paralympians in Limerick.Here he talks about ...

Next up on the Swim Ireland Podcast Coaching Series, hosted by Joanne Murphy from Tri Talking Sport, is Paul Dennis - head coach at Bangor Swimming Club, the home of Ireland's National 200m Freestyle Record Holder, Jack McMillan, and the swimmer he took the record off, Jordan Sloan.Where Paul grew up, people went to work on the ships. But as an avid swimmer, who had been trained to a high level, he had other ideas. He went on to achieve one of the world's first Sports Science degrees from Als...

Peter Hill, head coach at Larne Swimming Club in Northern Ireland, is the second guest on the Swim Ireland Podcast Coaching Series, hosted by Joanne Murphy from Tri Talking Sport.Peter is responsible for coaching Ireland's fastest ever female swimmer Danielle Hill, and also coaches the similarly speedy Conor Ferguson. Both swimmers aim to qualify for the Olympic Games at the Irish National Team Trials on April 20-24 - available live via RTE Player.The way Peter talks about his swimmers, metho...

The Swim Ireland Podcast Coaching Series gives you a window into the minds of some of Ireland's finest aquatic coaches - all with one thing in common: Olympic or Paralympic prospects aiming to qualify for the Tokyo 2021 or Paris 2024 games.Host Joanne Murphy from Tri Talking Sport talks to top coaches about their methods, how they have dealt with the past 12 months, what motivates them, and what makes their incredible athletes tick.All the coaches in this series have athletes aiming for big t...

The Swim Ireland Podcast Coaching Series, hosted by Joanne Murphy from Tri Talking Sport, opens with an insightful chat with Damian Ball, Ireland's National Head Coach for Diving, in the build-up to his team's departure for Tokyo for this year's final Olympic Games qualifier.It's crunch time for Oliver Dingley, Clare Cryan, Tanya Watson and Ciara McGing, and we've got the inside scoop on how Damian helped them reach this point."I think everyone's found a really deep resilience at the moment, ...