Mona has won Ireland’s first medal of the Games. Ireland’s Mona McSharry has won a Bronze medal in the 100m breaststroke at the Olympics, winning the country’s first Olympic swimming medal in 28 years. The 23-year-old from Sligo swam the final at Paris La Defense Arena with a time of 1:05.59. She finished just behind […]

1 year ago

“I’m back in college on the twenty… something of August” Mona McSharry smashed almost a whole second off the Irish record in the heats of the 200-metre Women’s Breast-stroke, and still wanted more at the end. The Sligo native, who reached the 100-metre Women’s Breast-stroke Final and finished 8th, was not expecting to compete in […]

5 years ago

Mona McSharry is just 20 years old, she’s competing in her first Olympic games but that didn’t stop her beating some of the best in the world to make it through to the final of the women’s 100m breaststroke. Two brilliant performances, first in her heat and then in her semi-final, have seen the Sligo […]

5 years ago