Martyn Irvine is one of 12 Irish cyclists funded for this year under the new Irish Sports Council allocations and one of four riders awarded the maximum €40,000. His gold and silver medal wins at the World Championships and UCI World Cup meetings put him at the top of the tree (Photo: Guy Swarbrick)
Cycling has performed well in the allocation of funding to individual athletes across all sports for 2015 by the Irish Sports Council.
With €281,000 awarded to 12 cyclists, the sport got more money than any other code apart from athletics.
Different levels of funding are awarded to athletes based on past success and the chances of reaching a podium in a major championships or being regarded as ‘world class’ or ‘international’ competitors.
A total of three Irish cyclists have been awarded the €40,000 maximum 'podium' level of funding; Colin Lynch, Martyn Irvine and Mark Rohan.
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A man for the big occasion, Mark Rohan has once again secured maximum funding from the Irish Sports Council.
Rohan has been world champion and was a double gold medal winner at the Paralympics in London while Lynch is a former world champion paracyclist.
Irvine has won UCI World Cup gold and silver medals, taken a bronze in the Europeans and won gold and two silvers at the World Track Championships; those Worlds medal winning rides coming last year and in 2013.
Two other paracyclists - Katie George Dunlevy and Eoghan Clifford - were also classed by the Irish Sports Council as being ‘podium’ riders but did not receive the maximum €40,000.
Instead, Dunlevy was awarded €30,000 and Clifford €20,000.
Eoghan Clifford on his way to the scratch race gold medal at the World Paracycling Championships in Holland on Sunday.
Both have just returned from the World Paracycling Track Championships in Holland with medals.
Dunlevy won bronze in the tandem pursuit with Eve McCrystal as pilot to add to the silver they won on the tandem at the World Paracycling Road Championships in the US last summer.
Clifford won the gold in both the road race and time trial in the US last year and last weekend won a pursuit bronze and scratch race gold in Holland.
Three Irish riders - Caroline Ryan, James Brown and Ryan Mullen - were classified as 'world class' contenders and allocated €20,000 funding each.
A bronze medal winner in recent years at the Worlds and UCI World Cups, Caroline Ryan's track ability has once again been rewarded with funding for the year ahead (Photo: Guy Swarbrick)
Ryan is a former bronze medal winner on the track at the World Cup and World Championships.
Ryan Mullen has taken two bronze medals in the U23 European Track Championships, was 4th in the individual pursuit at the elite World Track Championships last year and took silver in the U23 time trial at the World Road Championships last year.
James Brown rides on the track and road with the national paracycling squad.
He won a bronze medal in the time trial at the London Paralympics with Damien Shaw as his sighted tandem pilot.
A medal winner on both track and road at World and European level, Ryan Mullen will target the U23 time trial title at the World Road Championships again this year. Above, on his way to the fastest time at the National Time Trial Championships last June. He would also win the combined U23 and senior road race three days later (Photo: Stephen McMahon - Sportsfile)
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Three other Irish riders were classified at 'international standard' and awarded sums up to €12,000.
Last year’s U23 European Track Championships sprint bronze medal winner Eoin Mullen got €12,000. International paracyclist Enda Smyth was awarded €3,000.
Elite track sprinter Shannon McCurley, who won a bronze medal in the scratch race at the U23 European Championships in Poland in 2011, was awarded €6,000.
The tandem pilot riders who compete with the paracyclists were awarded a total of €30,000, with no breakdown of that funding specified.
What each sport got
- Athletics €338,000*
- Cycling €281,000
- Swimming €240,000**
- Boxing €204,000
- Sailing €152,000
- Rowing €96,000
- Triathlon €76,000
- Canoeing €62,000
- Badminton €36,000
- Pentathlon €24,000
- Clay Pigeon Shooting €20,000
- Judo €18,000
- Paraequestrian €12,000
- Para Table Tennis €12,000
*Includes funding for Paralympic Athletics
** Includes funding for Paralympic Swimming
Full list of athletes and their funding
Cycling
- Colin Lynch €40,000
- Martyn Irvine €40,000
- Mark Rohan €40,000
- Katie-George Dunlevy €30,000
- Eoghan Clifford €20,000
- Caroline Ryan €20,000
- Ryan Mullen €20,000
- James Brown €20,000
- Eoin Mullen €12,000
- Shannon McCurley €6,000
- Enda Smyth €3,000
- Pilot riders €30,000
Triathlon
- Aileen Reid €40,000
- Bryan Keane €12,000
- Ben Shaw €12,000
- Conor Murphy €12,000
Athletics
- Robert Hefffernan €40,000
- Fionnuala Britton €20,000
- Ciaran O'Lionaird €20,000
- Thomas Barr €20,000
- Paul Robinson €20,000
- Mark English €20,000
- Alex Wright €12,000
- Brian Gregan €12,000
- Laura Reynolds €12,000
- Brendan Boyce €12,000
Badminton
- Chloe Magee €12,000
- Sam Magee €12,000
- Scott Evans €12,000
Boxing
- Katie Taylor €40,000
- Joe Ward €40,000
- Michael Conlan €40,000
- Paddy Barnes €40,000
- David Oliver Joyce €20,000
- Darren O'Neill €12,000
- Michael O'Reilly €12,000
Canoeing
- Patrick O'Leary €20,000
- Andrzej Jezierski €12,000
- Barry Watkins €12,000
- Michael Fitzsimon €12,000
- Hannah Craig €6,000
Clay Pigeon Shooting
- Derek Burnett €20,000
Judo
- Lisa Kearney €12,000
- Eoin Fleming €6,000
Paralympic Athletics
- Michael McKillop €40,000
- Jason Smyth €40,000
- Orla Barry €40,000
- Deirdre Mongan €6,000
- John McCarthy €12,000
- Lorraine Regan €12,000
Paralympic Swimming
- Ellen Keane €40,000
- Darragh McDonald €40,000
- Laurence McGivern €40,000
- James Scully €40,000
Paraequastrian
- Helen Kearney €12,000
Pentathlon
- Natalya Coyle €12,000
- Arthur Lanigan O'Keeffe €12,000
Rowing
- Sanita Puspure €20,000
- Lisa Dilleen €20,000
- Leonora Kennedy €20,000
- Paul O'Donovan €12,000
- Helen Hannigan €12,000
- Monika Dukarska €12,000
Sailing
- Annalise Murphy €40,000
- Ryan Seaton €20,000
- Matthew McGovern €20,000
- Andrea Brewster €12,000
- Saskia Tidey €12,000
- James Espey €12,000
- John Twomey €12,000
- Ian Costelloe €12,000
- Austin O'Carroll €12,000
Swimming
- Fiona Doyle €20,000
- Brendan Hyland €12,000
- Chris Bryan €12,000
- Dan Sweeney €12,000
- Nicholas Quinn €12,000
- Sycerika McMahon €12,000
Para Table Tennis
- Rena McCarron Rooney €12,000
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