2021: The year in highlights

From the storming of the Capitol and the Suez Canal to Olympic success and Storm Barra, the news never stopped

Tokyo 2020: ‘It hasn’t sunk in yet’ says father of bronze-winning rower

Four women take home first medals for Team Ireland from Tokyo Olympics

Tokyo 2020 Day 1: Irish in action and best of the rest

Jack Woolley makes history in taekwondo while the women's hockey team begin

We dare not speak of medals – yet here are some of our big prospects for Tokyo

Team Ireland contains some new kids on the block who are out to win gold

Irish rowers win gold and silver at European Championships

O’Donovan and McCarthy triumph in double sculls as Women’s Four place second

Irish rowers add European gold and silver to their international haul

Paul O’Donovan is now among most-decorated athletes in Irish sporting history

Irish boats set pace at European Rowing Championships

Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy were impressive in their semi-final

Sanita Puspure won’t be defending her European title next month

Eight Irish crews made up of 17 rowers selected for European Rowing championships

Sanita Puspure faces tough challenge in women’s single sculls title defence

Two rowers record faster opening heat times than Ireland rower ahead of Sunday’s final

Rowing: Puspure leads Irish challenge at European Championships

Seven Irish crews in action in Poznan

Gold for Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy in Austria

Monika Dukarska and Aileen Crowley the fourth Irish boat to qualify for Tokyo 2020

Rowing: Women’s four moving in right direction towards Tokyo

Lydia Heaphy impresses with semi-final slot at World Championships

Ireland enter 11 crews for World Rowing Championships

Team built around Sanita Puspure and lightweight men’s double of Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy

Puspure braced for Gmelin backlash at Europeans

World champion leads an Ireland team in contention for medals at Lucerne finals

UCD and Commercial brace for senior eights battle at Metropolitan Regatta

Rowing: Champions Commercial are down four men for Blessington meeting

Rowing: Castleconnell enjoy record entry for Sprint Regatta

520 crews heading to the banks of the River Shannon for Saturday’s event

Gary O’Donovan can only take second at Skibbereen Regatta

After returning from wrist injury he’s thrilled to be ‘boat fit and race ready’ again

Plenty for rowing fans at Skibbereen and Portadown regattas

Maurogiovanni is frank about his ambition for this year of Olympic qualification of a number of boats with competitive crews

Organisers try to defer Limerick Regatta due to Storm Hannah

Prospects look better for next week’s Skibbereen event with mouth-watering line-up

The big men strike back at Ireland rowing trial

Fionnan Crowley and Andy Harrington beat Mark O’Donovan and Shane O’Driscoll

O’Donovan and Puspure hit form at Ireland trials

World champions sparkle despite testing conditions in Cork

Sanita Puspure and Paul O’Donovan set new Irish indoor records

World champions take titles at the University of Limerick

Sports Review 2018: Sanita Puspure defies odds and elements

Gold the pearl on the end of a string of sparkling rowing achievements for Ireland

Puspure’s season of sacrifices results in a golden high

Her success – and that of the O’Donovans – crown a great year for Irish rowing

Rowing: Skibbereen head blown off course

Saturday’s event cancelled due to forecast high winds

Sanita Puspure perseveres through troubled waters

World champion has borne bereavements and her sister’s cancer en route to gold

Tears flow on a golden day for Ireland's Sanita Puspure

Tactic of ‘go out fast and stay in the lead’ pays off at World Championships in Bulgaria

Gary and Paul O’Donovan are golden in Bulgaria

Skibbereen duo secure World Rowing Championships gold medal ahead of Italy

Sanita Puspure hits top gear as she chases podium finish

Irish crews set for big weekend at World Championships in Bulgaria

Emily Hegarty and Aifric Keogh make history for Ireland

Another impressive day for the Irish at the World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv

Paul and Gary O’Donovan show their class in Bulgaria

Cork brothers are through to the quarter-finals of the lightweight double sculls in Worlds

All eyes to be on Puspure and O’Donovan brothers at rowing championships

Skibbereen duo say lightweight doubles will be ‘tighter than ever’ this weekend in Bulgaria

Puspure decides not to compete at European Championships

In-form single sculler to focus on preparing for World Championships in September

Ireland to send four women’s crews and two men’s crews to Belgrade

A new heavyweight group has been named to train at the National Rowing Centre

O’Driscoll and O’Donovan pass the test at Ireland trial

Rowing: Skib duo up their rate to win in pairs race in Cork and book their place in Belgrade

Ireland’s best rowers gather for Ireland trial at National Rowing Centre

Places still to be nailed down on team for the World Cup series

Ireland take three bronze in final day of Italian regatta

Ireland crews had bagged gold and silver in different combinations on previous day

Cracking senior eights clash in store at University Championships

UCD bid to defend title and avenge Gannon Cup defeat in the snow to Trinity

Irish rowers face heavyweight test in first New Zealand outings

Paul and Gary O’Donovan and Shane O’Driscoll and Mark O’Donovan all to move up in weight

Neville Maxwell defends high performance director appointment

High Performance Committee chair calls for calm amid criticism over Maurogiovanni

Rowing Ireland announce new Coastal Championships

Decision criticised as a ‘hostile campaign’ by Irish Coastal Rowing Federation

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