BARNA MAN CORMAC FOLAN TO TAKE PART IN OLYMPIC PARADE

Date Published: 08-Aug-2008

One of Galway's Olympic hopefuls will march in today's opening ceremony in Beijing.(8/08)Cormac Folan from Barna, who will be rowing in this year's games, will be among those flying the flag high for Ireland later this afternoon.Olive Loughnane and Paul Hession will stay in Japan until next week, when they will travel back to Beijing.A total of 204 countries will compete in this year's Olympics.Ireland's current ranking to enter the Olympic stadium for the parade is 159th, behind Peru and in front of Estonia.