The Cabra native said she's fully committed to relocating to Cork again too, Ireland's rowing hub, to search for those marginal gains.

Olympic medal winners Paul O’Donovan, Fintan McCarthy, and Gary O’Donovan were held off by Tippman Lynch to claim the prestigious title

From the Land of the Rising Sun, here Ireland's victorious rowers were, back on the banks of the River Lee, being rightly feted as that same sun slowly dropped over the horizon

503 crews are entered across 55 categories for the three-day event which will be live-streamed by Rowing Ireland.

It turns out that Olympic record-breaker Paul O'Donovan didn't cry when the Irish flag was raised in Tokyo, but he does believe his grandmother helped get him over the line

Joining them in the Open events is a Quadruple Scull comprising of Gary O’Donovan and Daire Lynch

I think about all the children at home, watching these two men, standing on a podium as the Irish flag is raised and Amhrán na bhFiann is played

Tonight as the Taoiseach addressed the rowers, their families, coaches and fellow politicians including Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney at the small event in Spearline in Skibbereen

Golden boy Fintan McCarthy and bronze medallist Emily Hegarty took part in an impromptu drive through the town to celebrate their stunning victories

Rowing Ireland coach Giuseppe De Vita takes the opinion that the race is 90% psychological

The moment that led to the start of a journey that has culminated in Olympic gold for Ireland

Community overjoyed at Fintan McCarthy and Paul O'Donovan's Olympic success. 

Olympic honour just down to 'being born early in the history of time'. 

Sporting organisations, stars, politicians and former medal winners alike gathered on Twitter to congratulate Ireland's latest golden boys. 

'She has done rowing and Ireland proud. She can hold her head high knowing what she has done. She has inspired young boys and young girls all over the country'

The star of the US team has been struggling with a dangerous condition where gymnasts lose their sense of spatial awareness

The Irish heroes have returned to base and what a welcome they received.

George Hamilton finally clocked up one first last night — he called an Irish Olympic gold 

Among the medal favourites, Puspure failed to make the final from her semi this morning

The bronze medal won by Aifric Keogh, Eimear Lambe, Fiona Murtagh, and Emily Hegarty was fashioned from a long and ultimately successful search for the perfect combination in that women’s four

Lambe contracted Covid-19 in January, at a time when the identity of the four occupants in the women’s four was still up in the air and the national trials due to come in March

Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy’s rivals were generous in their praise of the new Olympic champions

The Skibbereen duo overpowered their closest German challengers, and the rest of the field, in racing to Olympic immortality in six minutes and six seconds

Aifric Keogh hails from Furbo on the coast road between Barna and Spiddal, while Fiona Murtagh is from 10 kilometres away in Moycullen near the banks of Lough Corrib

First and foremost, they are more than a four, they are a squad

Aifric Keogh, Eimear Lambe, Fiona Murtagh, and Emily Hegarty have won Ireland's first medal of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

"Ireland are home for third and a bronze as history is made"

'We’d a little bit of a party last night with the Norwegians. We’re going to cut back on that tonight because they certainly weren’t the better of it'

Lambe, Aifric Keogh, Fiona Murtagh, and Emily Hegarty clocked in with a deeply impressive display in their Tokyo Olympics heat

Paul O’Donovan is the possessor of nine major championship medals. Six of his senior haul to date are golds

The team on duty in Japan is closing in on a 50/50 gender split and contains a number of live medal contenders across a range of sports

The country fell in love with the Skibbereen brothers when they climbed on the podium in Rio in 2016. The expectation was that they would dovetail again in Japan but it is Fintan McCarthy who will share the boat with Paul later this month

Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy won gold in the Lightweight men’s sculls

Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy finished first their heat in the lightweight men’s double sculls, and there was also race wins for Gary O’Donovan and Lydia Heaphy

Four of the six qualified Olympic boats will be in action at Lucerne this weekend

Three years ago, Rowing Ireland chief executive Michelle Carpenter made a bold prediction about their representation on Team Ireland’s flight to the Tokyo Olympics.

Ireland's Women's Four Crew has qualified the boat for the Olympics. 

The Irish team of Emily Hegarty, Eimear Lambe, Aifric Keogh and Fiona Murtagh led from start to finish

Seven Irish rowers will have Tokyo in their sights this weekend, when they compete in the final Olympic qualification regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland.

The competing boats heading to Lucerne for the final Olympic qualifier are the Men’s Single, Lightweight Women’s Double and Women’s Four.

So far there has been no indication of when Ireland’s Olympians will be offered vaccination

Ireland has four boats qualified for the Tokyo Olympics and the hope is to grow that number in Lucerne next month

The world champions were hugely impressive in taking victory ahead of Germany and Italy.

The pair reached the European Championship semi-final as four Irish boats reached finals on day one