17 Irish rowers set for action at European Championships
Team Ireland will have 17 rowers across eight boat classes representing at the 2025 European Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
RTÉ will have live coverage of the four-day event that begins on Thursday, 29 May and runs through until Sunday.
The European Championships will represent the first major international event of the new Olympic cycle.
Paul O'Donovan is the big-name absentee, with the three-time Olympic medallist missing out to concentrate on his medical studies
Nine of Ireland's 2024 Olympians are back in action, including Paris medallists Daire Lynch, Philip Doyle and Fintan McCarthy, who will be joined by three high-performance athletes making their senior international debuts, Izzy Clements – Lightweight Women's Single (LW1x), Aisling Hayes – Women's Quad (W4x) and Claire Feerick, returning to international competition in the W4x.
There will be live coverage of the European Championships on both Saturday and Sunday morning from 8.30am on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player.
Thursday 29 May
LW1x – Izzy Clements
Preliminary Race: 8:07am
LM1x – Jake McCarthy
Heat 1: 8:12am
M2 – Ross Corrigan and Daire Lynch
Heat 1: 8:34am
W2x – Zoe Hyde and Mags Cremen
Heat 2: 9:04am
M2x – Fintan McCarthy and Konan Pazzaia
Heat 4: 9:24am
W4x – Alison Bergin, Aisling Hayes, Natalie Long and Claire Feerick
Heat 1: 12pm
M4x – Philip Doyle, Ronan Byrne, Adam Murphy and Andrew Sheehan
Heat 2: 12:15pm
W1x – Fiona Murtagh
Heat 1: 12:27pm
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