Irish Sun

Inside Irish cheerleading as athletes hope for Olympic glory – and it’s not all about pom poms

CHEERLEADING is about more than just waving pom poms in the air, they’re serious athletes and aiming for Olympic glory, the Cheer Sport Ireland President has said. The sport, originally associated ...
The Irish Times

Inside Ireland’s national cheerleading team: ‘Remember, ladies, the higher your hair is, the closer it is to God’

It’s a predictably sunny day in Florida, and Taylor Flynn, a 20-year-old cheerleader from Castlebar, Co Mayo is competing in the Cheerleading Worlds, in Orlando, for the third time. “There’s four ...
Irish Central

Killarney cheerleaders cheer their way onto national Irish TV

Killarney Scorchers Club from County Kerry show Ireland, on RTE and TG4, why cheerleading is one of Ireland's fastest growing sports. Killarney cheerleaders demonstrated on national television why ...
The Irish Times

Eat/Sleep/Cheer/Repeat review: Competitive cheerleading in Ireland? It’s like coming across yak racing in Carlow

You can easily see what drew the documentarian Tanya Doyle to the word of competitive cheerleading. Sports docs have tension automatically built in. Someone is going to win. Someone else is going to ...