The Performance Pathway is the Irish Sailing Association’s Olympic talent pipeline. The Performance Pathway starts from 11 years in the Topper class right the way to Developement squads. The aim of the Pathway Programme is to nurture and develop young talent, providing them with suitable coaching and training, in order to facilitate their potential access to the Academy Squads.
The Goal:
The key is to develop young sailors of the appropriate age, size and ability and guide them forward at the appropriate time with the best available coaching both on and off the water. Being selected for the Pathway is the first step in a young sailor’s elite training. Some of Ireland’s finest sailors have come through the Performance Pathway including, Annalise Murphy, Finn Lynch, Eve McMahon, Robert Dickson, Seán Waddilove, Séafra Guilfolye and Johnny Durcan. These sailors have gone on to represent Ireland at the Olympics, in World and European Championships and are the standard bearers for Irish sailing on the international stage.
The Irish Sailing Performance Pathway Handbook is available to download HERE.
Read the Development Template HERE
2024/25 Pathway Squads
49erFX Development Squads:
- Erin McIlwaine and Ellen Barbour
- Ben O'Shaughnessy and Ethan Spain
- Lauren O'Callaghan and Charlotte Edie
- Lucia Cullen and Alana Twomey
ILCA 7 Development
- Fiachra McDonnell
- Tom Coulter
ILCA 6 Academy
- Bobby Driscoll
- Lucy Ives
- Conor Cronin
- Marcus Shelley
29er Academy
- Riona McMorrow Moriarty and Ava Ennis
- Ella McDonagh and Bella Waterman
- Jules Start and Lisa Flynn
- Juliet Ryan and Ella Rock
- Gemma Brady and Grace Keating
ILCA 4
- Leo O'Doherty
- Kate Molloy
- Jack Ives
- James Gorman
- Rory Brennan Hobbs
- Abigail Murphy
- George Doig
Toppers
- John Kenny
- Jacob Browne
- Paidí A’Coistealbha
- Rían O’Neill
- Jackson Clark
- Amy Shelley