Partition & Irish Sport

[MW]

Athletics Ireland covers the whole country, I thought. Athletics NI must be a provisional or continuity set-up or something.

UK Athletics might have something to say about that!

(Its remit as a federation is the whole UK, and Athletics NI is one of its four constituent bodies)

[MW]

There's a Northern Ireland international netball team too, the organising body is Netball Northern Ireland.

[MW]

AQMP, if there is no Northern Ireland team, then it must be an ALL-Ireland sport, with wannabees able to play for Britain if they want to.

Odd logic. How does a Great Britain & Northern Ireland team
mean a sport is all-Ireland? And why do you call people from NI representing GB&NI "wannabes"?

[The Worker]

motorsport is partitioned

[dec]

Basket ball seems to be both

http://www.basketballireland.ie/

and

http://www.basketballni.com/

[Ulick]

Basket ball seems to be both

http://www.basketballireland.ie/

and

http://www.basketballni.com/

Basketball Ireland is the governing body for the whole country. Basketball NI is an regional set-up like that in athletics that doesn't really do very much but is more a vehicle for getting development funding from SportsNI. They provide coaches for schools, training programmes and the like.

Other 32 county sports - Tennis and Water Polo.

[MW]

Basketball Ireland is the governing body for the whole country. Basketball NI is an regional set-up like that in athletics that doesn't really do very much but is more a vehicle for getting development funding from SportsNI. They provide coaches for schools, training programmes and the like.

Other 32 county sports - Tennis and Water Polo.

I know little of the basketball arrangements but that doesn't sound much like the athletics set-up.

[MW]

Volleyball is definitely organised separately in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. North of the border the sport is governed by Northern Ireland Volleyball (NIVB):

http://www.nivb.com/index.php

...which runs a NI international team:

http://www.nivb.com/national/senior-men.php

There's a Volleyball Association of Ireland (VAI), whose website states that it is the governing body for the Republic of Ireland
(http://www.volleyballireland.com/vai/)

In gymnastics, there is Gymnastics Northern Ireland, which is to quote its website (http://www.northernirelandgymnastics.org/), the governing body for gymnastics in NI - though it works in partnership with British Gymnastics (which is the overall national governing body for the whole UK) to deliver gymnastics in NI. British Gymnastics in NI seems to have a development role in particular: http://www.northernirelandgymnastics.org/aboutusa.html

That said there's also a Gymnastics Ireland, which as well as governing the sport in the ROI, may well extend its remit into NI: http://www.gymnasticsireland.com/default.aspx

[MW]

All- Ireland
Beach Volleyball

Going by those volleyball links, beach volleyball is organised on a similar basis as (indoor) volleyball perhaps?

[thejuice]

Ireland has one registered competitor in Sumo wrestling and he's from Cork. There are none from Northern Ireland as far as I'm aware.

Does that make it all-Ireland?

[Rois]

Basket ball seems to be both

http://www.basketballireland.ie/

and

http://www.basketballni.com/

Used to pay my fees to the IBA - there is an Ulster League but that's just a local league and doesn't have a governing body. 

From the IBA website - "Basketball Ireland (B.I.) is the national governing body for the sport on the island of Ireland."

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Ireland has one registered competitor in Sumo wrestling and he's from Cork. There are none from Northern Ireland as far as I'm aware.

Does that make it all-Ireland?

Nah, that would be of the People's Republic of Cork variety. 

[thejuice]

One big arse cheek to represent each country with a white nappy wedged in between.

[muppet]

Chess is 32 County.

Check out the Irish Chess Union map of clubs.

(My MacBook is refusing to copy and paste so I can't put up the link)

[Rossfan]

Road Bowlin'  -- 2 county sport which I presume has one governing body?