Ben Lynch saved the best Irish result until last when finishing eighth in Friday’s freestyle skiing halfpipe final

Ireland's quartet of Winter Olympians will bask in the glow of a job well done today when they return to Dublin after their feats at the Milano-Cortina Games.

Ben Lynch finished eighth in the freestyle skiing halfpipe event.

Warner Bros. Discovery reported record-breaking streaming performance for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, with the company posting triple-digit growth across its HBO Max and Discovery+ platforms compared to the Beijing 2022 Games.

ANABELLE ZURBAY was pleased with her showing on her Winter Olympics debut. The Team Ireland teenager, 17, finished 48th in the women’s giant slalom in a time of 2:31.70. Zurbay clocked 1:12.82 on

SKIER Thomas Maloney Westgaard brought the curtain down on Team Ireland’s Winter Olympics in “brutal” fashion. The 30-year-old finished 23rd in the men’s 50km cross-country mass classic race in

NBCUniversal's coverage averaged more than 23 million viewers, and Peacock had its best month ever.

Just over 1,000 Irish people can call themselves Olympians. Only 36 of those can call themselves Winter Olympians, and yesterday three-time Olympian Thomas Maloney Westgard, Anabelle Zurbay, Cormac Comerford and half-pipe finalist Ben Lynch were given a hero’s welcome to Ireland after Milano-Cortina 2026.

The Games always offer discomfort. And moments of joy—in its purest form—as well as pain and surprise. While Lindsey Vonn’s Olympic comeback ended with a frightening crash in Cortina d’Ampezzo, overall, Team USA broke its winter gold medal record, set on home soil at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.