Ireland’s Olympic Homecoming: Thousands to gather in capital to welcome sporting heroes home

A special message lit up the Samuel Beckett Bridge this weekend to celebrate their achievements in Paris, while Kellie Harrington will receive her own local homecoming event on Monday evening.

The boxing champion will receive a special homecoming on Monday between 7pm and 9pm, when she will walk from the corner of Dublin’s Gardiner St, up Séan McDermott Street and onto Killarney Street, where a stage will be erected for the event.

The Olympic boxer will be accompanied by the Dublin Fire Brigade Pipe Band and vocalist Gemma Dunleavy.

It will take place just around the corner from her family home on Portland Row, where large crowds gathered in Diamond Park during her Olympic bouts to watch her historic journey to gold.