TRIBUTES have been paid following the death of “true pioneer” Maeve Kyle – Ireland’s first ever female track and field ...

Maeve Kyle, a pioneering figure in Irish athletics and a former hockey international, has died at the age of 96.

Athletics Ireland have led the tributes to Irish Olympic and sporting trailblazer Maeve Kyle, who has died at the age of 96.

IRISH athletics has been saddened by the passing of one its greatest ever athletes – Maeve Kyle. She passed away peacefully ...

Ireland’s first female track-and-field Olympian Maeve Kyle has died. She was 96. The Olympic Federation of Ireland says Kyle was a “trailblazer for women’s sport.” ...

Before there was Sonia or Catherina, Rhasidat or ­Sharlene, there was Maeve Kyle. Before the term “women in sport” became a thing, Kyle was its very definition: a three-time Olympian who was unafraid ...

Maeve Kyle became Ireland's first female track and field Olympian at the 1956 Games and then a highly respected athletics ...

RIP: Maeve Kyle was a history-maker, the first woman to represent Ireland in a track and field event at the Games ...

Inspirational sporting all rounder Maeve Kyle, who has died at the age of 96, blazed a trail for generations of Irish sportswomen by her remarkable achievements in the face of opposition and adversity ...

The athletics community in Kilkenny and across the country are in mourning following the passing of decorated local athlete ...

Maeve Kyle, Ireland's first female track and field Olympian, has died at the age of 96, the Olympic Federation of Ireland ...

Maeve Kyle, Ireland's first female track and field Olympian at the 1956 Melbourne Games, has died at 96. Born in Kilkenny, ...