{"id":622725,"date":"2026-09-12T19:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/622725\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T19:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:40:10","slug":"dearbhaile-brady-adds-bronze-for-ireland-on-closing-day-at-world-para-swimming-european-championships-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/622725\/","title":{"rendered":"Dearbhaile Brady adds bronze for Ireland on closing day at World Para Swimming European Championships \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dearbhaile Brady took her tally of medals at the World Para Swimming European Championships to four on the final day of the event in Turkey, winning bronze in the 100m breaststroke final on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Added to R\u00f3is\u00edn N\u00ed Riain\u2019s haul of a gold and two silver, Brady\u2019s result brought Ireland\u2019s total to seven medals in the championships. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Derry swimmer set a lifetime best in the morning\u2019s heats and shaved almost three additional seconds off that mark in the final. Brady came from fourth at the turn to take bronze, adding to her three silver medals from earlier in the week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI\u2019m happy with a bronze, it\u2019s not one of my best events,\u201d said Brady. \u201cIt\u2019s been a good week, I\u2019ve learned a lot to take into next year, a lot of positives. It\u2019s about putting the head down and taking it day by day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">N\u00ed Riain finished fifth in her last event, the 400m freestyle. While she was disappointed with the placing, she was happy with her week\u2019s work, highlighted by the successful defence of her 100m backstroke title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI would have liked to end if on a little bit of a better note, but I have to be happy coming away from this week,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Limerick\u2019s Ellie Lynch finished seventh in the 100m backstroke final on her European debut, while Luke O\u2019Donoghue clocked a personal best to take eighth in the 100m backstroke final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dearbhaile Brady took her tally of medals at the World Para Swimming European Championships to four on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[264475,61,60,43,264476],"class_list":["post-622725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-dearbhaile-brady","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-roisin-ni-riain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}