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06 Sept 2025

Meet the international sports star with Kilkenny connections

From this week's Freshford Notes

Meet the international sports star with Kilkenny connections

Sinead Diver, who represented Australia in the Olympics in Paris, is daughter-in-law of Pat and Ann Cullinane Kilkenny Street, Freshford and Limerick.

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Sinead, who hails from Belmullet, County Mayo was taking part in the Women’s Marathon on Sunday morning but had to pull out after just over a kilometre due to an injury.

"I'm absolutely devastated to have had to dnf at my second Olympic Games. I was dealing with a plantar issue in the lead in to this race. It was manageable and I was training, fit and ready to race. That had nothing to do with why I pulled out," she said on her Instagram account.

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