on monday, the irish sports minister JOhn O'donoghue declared that ireland would not win anothe rolympic medal until like 2016

5 minutes ago, Ireland won an olympic gold medal in equestrien

woohooo

it's about time

Funny you should mention that. I saw the event on TV. That Irish rider had a smooth ride and cleared all the obsticles. From my understandint it was Irelands first Gold Medal.

first gold in these games

it is also ireland's first gold medal since like 1992 in barcelona because to my knowledge, michelle smith who "won" 3 golds in atlanta was later disqualified for tampering with a drug test

anyway what was odd about it was:

irish times on friday morning said that babbington had a good chance for a gold

rte said on friday afternoon that Kuerten was in real contention for gold

and then it was o'connor that won gold