Ireland at the 1988 Summer Olympics

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[2]

In Ireland's fourth appearance in archery competition at the Olympics, the nation was represented by two men and one woman.

Women's Individual Competition:

• Pereira Greene – Preliminary Round (→ 38th place)

Men's Individual Competition:

• Joseph Malone – Preliminary Round (→ 69th place)
• Noel Lynch – Preliminary Round (→ 74th place)

Men's Marathon

• Dick Hooper

• Final – 2"17.16 (→ 24th place)

• John Woods

• Final – 2"25.38 (→ 52nd place)

Men's 3.000m Steeplechase

• Brendan Quinn

• Heat – 8:40.87
• Semi Final – 8:43.34 (→ did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw

• Connor McCullagh

• Qualifying Heat – 68.66m (→ did not advance)

Men's Javelin Throw

• Terry McHugh

• Qualification – 76.46m (→ did not advance)

Men's Decathlon

• Carlos O'Connell – 7310 points (→ 29th place)

1. 100 metres – 11.26s
2. Long Jump – 6.90m
3. Shot Put – 12.41m
4. High Jump – 1.88m
5. 400 metres – 48.24s
6. 110m Hurdles – 15.61s
7. Discus Throw – 38.02m
8. Pole Vault – 4.40m
9. Javelin Throw – 52.68m
10. 1.500 metres – 4:32.06s

Women's 3.000m Steeplechase

• Anne Keenan-Buckley

Women's Marathon

• Ailish Smyth

• Final – 2"44.17 (→ 46th place)

• Marie Murphy-Rollins

• Final – 3"04.21 (→ 57th place)

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

• Wayne McCullough

• First Round – Bye
• Second Round – Defeated Fred Mutuweta (Uganda), 5:0
• Third Round – Lost to Scott Olsen (Canada), 0:5

Five male cyclists represented Ireland in 1988.

Men's road race

• Cormac McCann
• John McQuaid
• Paul McCormack

Men's team time trial

• Philip Cassidy
• Cormac McCann
• John McQuaid
• Stephen Spratt

Men's Coxled Pairs

• Pat McDonagh – 2nd in repechage (→ Unplaced)
• Frank Moore – 2nd in repechage (→ Unplaced)
• Liam Williams – 2nd in repechage (→ Unplaced)

Men

Women

Men's Doubles Competition

• Owen Casey and Eoin Collins

• First Round – Lost to Amos Mansdorf and Gilad Bloom (Israel) 2-6 6-7 6-4 5-7