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Ireland's Olympic medals

42 medals since Ireland first competed under its own flag in 1924: 15 gold, 10 silver, 17 bronze. Every one, newest first, with where the medallists were born.

GamesMedallistSportEventBorn
🥉 2024 Mona McSharry Swimming Women's 100 metre breaststroke Grange, County Sligo · Sligo
🥉 2024 Daire Lynch, Philip Doyle Rowing Men's double sculls Clonmel · Tipperary; Lisburn · Antrim
🥉 2024 Daniel Wiffen Swimming Men's 1500 metre freestyle Leeds
🥇 2024 Kellie Harrington Boxing Women's 60 kg Dublin · Dublin
🥇 2024 Daniel Wiffen Swimming Men's 800 metre freestyle Leeds
🥇 2024 Rhys McClenaghan Gymnastics Pommel Horse Newtownards, County Down · Down
🥇 2024 Fintan McCarthy, Paul O'Donovan Rowing Men's lightweight double sculls Cork · Cork; Lisheen, County Cork · Cork
🥉 2020 Aifric Keogh, Eimear Lambe, Fiona Murtagh, Emily Hegarty Rowing Women's coxless four Furbo, County Galway · Galway; Cabra · Dublin; Galway · Galway; Skibbereen · Cork
🥉 2020 Aidan Walsh Boxing Men's welterweight Belfast
🥇 2020 Kellie Harrington Boxing Women's lightweight Dublin · Dublin
🥇 2020 Fintan McCarthy, Paul O'Donovan Rowing Men's lightweight double sculls Cork · Cork; Lisheen, County Cork · Cork
🥈 2016 Annalise Murphy Sailing Women's Laser Radial Rathfarnham, Dublin · Dublin
🥈 2016 Gary O'Donovan, Paul O'Donovan Rowing Men's lightweight double sculls Lisheen, County Cork · Cork; Lisheen, County Cork · Cork
🥉 2012 Robert Heffernan Athletics Men's 50 kilometres walk Cork · Cork
🥉 2012 Cian O'Connor Equestrian Individual Showjumping Dublin · Dublin
🥉 2012 Michael Conlan Boxing Men's flyweight Belfast
🥉 2012 Paddy Barnes Boxing Men's Light flyweight Belfast
🥈 2012 John Joe Nevin Boxing Men's Bantamweight Mullingar · Westmeath
🥇 2012 Katie Taylor Boxing Women's lightweight Bray, County Wicklow · Wicklow
🥉 2008 Darren Sutherland Boxing Men's Middleweight Dublin · Dublin
🥉 2008 Paddy Barnes Boxing Men's Light flyweight Belfast
🥈 2008 Kenny Egan Boxing Men's Light Heavyweight Clondalkin, Dublin · Dublin
🥈 2000 Sonia O'Sullivan Athletics Women's 5000 metres Cobh, County Cork · Cork
🥉 1996 Michelle Smith Swimming Women's 200 metre butterfly Rathcoole, County Dublin · Dublin
🥇 1996 Michelle Smith Swimming Women's 400 metre individual medley Rathcoole, County Dublin · Dublin
🥇 1996 Michelle Smith Swimming Women's 200 metre individual medley Rathcoole, County Dublin · Dublin
🥇 1996 Michelle Smith Swimming Women's 400 metre freestyle Rathcoole, County Dublin · Dublin
🥈 1992 Wayne McCullough Boxing Men's bantamweight Belfast
🥇 1992 Michael Carruth Boxing Men's welterweight Dublin · Dublin
🥈 1984 John Treacy Athletics Men's marathon Villierstown, County Waterford · Waterford
🥈 1980 David Wilkins, James Wilkinson Sailing Flying Dutchman class —; —
🥉 1980 Hugh Russell Boxing Men's flyweight Belfast
🥉 1964 Jim McCourt Boxing Men's lightweight Belfast
🥉 1956 Tony Byrne Boxing Men's lightweight Drogheda · Louth
🥉 1956 Freddie Gilroy Boxing Men's bantamweight Belfast
🥉 1956 John Caldwell Boxing Men's flyweight —
🥈 1956 Fred Tiedt Boxing Men's welterweight Dublin · Dublin
🥇 1956 Ron Delany Athletics Men's 1500 metres Arklow, County Wicklow · Wicklow
🥈 1952 John McNally Boxing Men's bantamweight Belfast
🥇 1932 Pat O'Callaghan Athletics Men's hammer throw Kanturk, County Cork · Cork
🥇 1932 Bob Tisdall Athletics Men's 400 metre hurdles Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon
🥇 1928 Pat O'Callaghan Athletics Men's hammer throw Kanturk, County Cork · Cork
Medallists by county of birth

Counted by birthplace as each athlete's Wikipedia article gives it. 8 medallists were born in Belfast, which lies in both Antrim and Down, and are left out of the county count; so are those born outside Ireland or whose birthplace isn't recorded.

Also worth knowing
Quick answers
How many Olympic medals has Ireland won?

42 at the Summer Games: 15 gold, 10 silver and 17 bronze. Ireland has not won a Winter Games medal.

Which sport has won Ireland the most Olympic medals?

Boxing, with 19, then Athletics (7) and Swimming (7).

What were Ireland's best Olympic Games?

2024, with 7 medals.

Who won Ireland's first Olympic gold medal?

Pat O'Callaghan of Kanturk, County Cork, in the hammer throw at Amsterdam in 1928 — the first gold for the new Irish state. He won it again in 1932.

Source

Wikipedia's Ireland at the Olympics ↗ (medals for Olympic Federation of Ireland teams), with birthplaces from each medallist's own article. All-Ireland winners →