Ireland competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 24 July to 11 August 2024, commemorating its centenary of the team's debut as an independent country in the same venue.

2024 also marked the centenary of Ireland's first independent appearance at the 1924 Olympic Games, also in Paris, after the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922.

[4] Ireland guaranteed a podium finish on seven consecutive days: the opening Monday (McSharry, swimming), then Tuesday (Wiffen, swimming), followed by Wednesday (this was the day Harrington secured at least a bronze medal in boxing),[5] then Thursday (Lynch & Doyle, rowing), followed by McCarthy and O'Donovan's gold in rowing on Friday.

[6] The streak continued on Saturday with McClenaghan's gold in gymnastics[7] and was rounded off with Daniel Wiffen securing a second podium finish in the pool on Sunday[8].

[additional citation(s) needed] The nation's media also reported on Irish links to athletes for other nations, notably Hungarian swimmer Hubert Kós (200 metre backstroke gold medalist), as well as Hong Kong's multi medal-winning swimmer Siobhán Haughey (grand-niece of former Taoiseach Charles Haughey).

Field events Ireland entered two badminton players into the Olympic tournament based on the BWF Race to Paris Rankings.

Tokyo 2020 Olympians Michaela Walsh (women's featherweight), Aoife O'Rourke (women's middleweight), and defending champion Kellie Harrington, along with two other rookies (Dean Clancy and Jack Marley), secured the spots on the Irish squad in their respective weight divisions, either by advancing to the semifinal match or finishing in the top two, at the 2023 European Games in Nowy Targ, Poland.

Ireland also entered one rider in the dressage individual events, through the establishments of final olympics ranking for Group A (North Western Europe).

Irish rowers qualified boats in 7 events, each of the following classes through the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia and the final Olympic Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland.

[43] Medal race events M = Medal race (double points); EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race; DSQ = disqualified; 26 = worst result discarded Irish swimmers achieved the entry standards in the following events for Paris 2024 (a maximum of two swimmers under the Olympic Qualifying Time (OST) and potentially at the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT)):[44] To assure their selection to the Irish roster, swimmers must attain the Olympic qualifying cut in the final (or in heat-declared winner races on time for long-distance freestyle) of each individual pool event at any of the domestic meets approved by World Aquatics, Olympic Federation of Ireland, and Swim Ireland: the 2023 World Aquatics Championships (23–30 July in Fukuoka), the 2024 World Aquatics Championships (2–18 February in Doha), and the 2024 Irish Open Championships (currently set for May 2024), if necessary and available.

[46][47] Ellen Walshe Jack Woolley was one of two Irish entries at the European Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria, and qualified by winning his under-58 kg semifinal.