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The 35-year-old from Kildare, classified as T53 but racing against mostly T54 athletes, finished in a time of 1:32.54, four places higher than his Paralympic debut in Rio five years ago and in very different conditions

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McKillop has called time on his Paralympic career after enduring bitter disappointment in the T38 1500m final in Tokyo

The Irish pair of Dunlevy and McCrystal pulled away in the last 500m to finish ahead of Great Britain's world champions

His medal haul to date includes four golds in three previous Paralympics; 800m in 2008, a 800m/1500m double in 2012, and 1500m in 2016

Elsewhere, Patrick Flanagan became a Paralympian for the first time

Last year Fitzgerald shared a house with Olympic rowing champion Paul O’Donovan, Tipperary hurler Paddy Caddell, and Munster Rugby’s Scott Buckley

Limerick's Ní Riain can now reflect on an excellent first appearance at the Paralympic Games where she appeared in five final and set new PBs in four of them

Cork discus thrower McCarthy said: “I know other people were expecting better things but it’s been a very hard few years so just to make it here and to have a few good throws... I’m really proud of myself.”

As a scientist and a university professor Pat O’Leary has an analytical mind and a way with words.

With fellow Corkonians Orla Barry and Noelle Lenihan now retired Niamh McCarthy, 27, is feeling the pressure of expectation in Tokyo.

The 34-year-old Smyth admits his thoughts have already turned towards the next Paralympics in Paris

Nicole Turner is still processing the fact that she is now a Paralympic silver medallist but the Portarlington swimmer is already targeting the Paris Games in 2024

Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal earned their second medals of the Tokyo Games

Gary O'Reilly added to Team Ireland's medal count securing the bronze in the Men's H5 Time Trial.

The Antrim man kick-starts his latest - and perhaps final - bid for a podium place in the 1500m T38 heats at the Tokyo National Stadium on Friday

Smyth secured victory in the T13 100m final just before noon in a time of 10.53 - just one-hundred of a second ahead of Algeria's Skander Djamil Athmani.

"To get that performance, I just can’t believe it. I’m so proud of Katie and I know she is proud of me"

Greta Streimikyte has finished fifth in the T13 1500m final at the Paralympics.

Like virtually every person across the globe, Jason Smyth has learnt to deal with Covid-19 in his own way over the past 18 months.

Inspirational victories in Tokyo

There was no beaming smile or frantic thrashing of the water when Ellen Keane claimed gold in the SB8 100m breaststroke at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. No fist pump in triumph

Roisin Ni Riain swam another personal best as she finished fifth in Friday's S13, 400m Freestyle Paralympic final.

The Limerick teenager will return to the pool at 11:43am Irish time for her third final of the week.

Holding off stiff competition from New Zealand’s Sophie Pascoe, the Dubliner secured a gold medal to go alongside the bronze she won at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro

Róisín Ní Ríain put forward some of the misconceptions she has had to deal with, such as that para athletes don’t have the same level of commitment

“The last thing my coach said to me before I went in was‘ If I need to push you in a wheelchair home, I want those legs wrecked. And that is exactly what I did.” 

Keane, who was competing in her favoured event, the SB8 100m breaststroke, produced a personal best of 1:21.71 to qualify for this morning's final at 11.40am. 

There were gold medals for Ukraine and Italy in races with Irish interest in Tokyo on Wednesday

Nicole Turner and Róisín Ní Riain are into Paralympic finals after Team Ireland made an impressive start to the Tokyo Games with eye-catching performances and personal bests the order of the day.

Ireland has a team of 29 athletes, and they look hard-pressed to surpass their performance at the 2016 edition in Rio, where they won four gold, four silver, and three bronze medals

The long-awaited event took place precisely 364 days later than planned

Lee only decided to take up para athletics following a chance meeting with Jason Smyth in December 2016 but now finds himself rubbing shoulders with Smyth on Team Ireland's Paralympics squad

As a dual citizen Greta Streimikyte’s large family back in Vilnius, including her four grandparents, will be just as invested in her second Paralympic appearance as her family and friends in North Dublin

Ahead of the Paralympic Games on August 24, we ask three competitors about their chosen sport and the advice they'd like to give their younger selves

When you see Gary O'Reilly competing in the Tokyo Paralympics you’ll see an elite athlete powering along in a hand bike but few can conceive of his battle since suffering life-changing injuries in a work accident.

While the timing of the incident, on his way to a first Paralympics, was distressing, he considers himself lucky it all happened at a time when he was surrounded by coaches, teammates, and support staff

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Paralympics Ireland have named a strong para-athletics team to represent Team Ireland at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

Smyth turned 34 on Sunday and has ruled the world in the T13 category (for partially sighted athletes) for the last 15 years, but there’s a question mark around his form this year given he has yet to race