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She is Northern Irish (also born in Northern I.), but represented Ireland in Olympics. Why is that? Northern Ireland is a part of UK and they normally should present Great Britain in the Olympics. To add more to it, UK team's full name is actually "Team Great Britain and Northern Ireland". (Though there are some sports in which the "whole Ireland" teams compete, but not in Olympics. 86.115.95.131 (talk) 14:00, 3 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that. According to Olympic Federation of Ireland article: "Athletes from Northern Ireland have the option of participating under its auspices or in the Great Britain Olympic Team." I had no knowledge of that. 86.115.95.131 (talk) 04:12, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]