Sanita Puspure is the latest athlete to join Ireland’s Olympic Games tilt in the summer.

Two more Irish competitors, 17-year-old Belfast swimmer Sycerika McMahon and 23-year-old Melanie Nocher, have qualified for the London Olympics at the European Swimming Championships inDebrecen, Hungary, taking Ireland’s tally to four.

Melanie Nocher has capped off a positive day for Irish swimming by joining Sycerika McMahon in qualifying for the Olympic Games.

Seventeen-year-old swimming prospect Sycerika McMahon is London-bound after securing the Olympic A standard in the 100m breaststroke this morning.

Irish swimmer Sycerika McMahon has qualified for the Olympics at the European Swimming Championships this morning.

Sycerika McMahon has qualified for the women's 100m freestyle at May's European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.

One of Irish swimming’s oldest records fell on day three of the Irish Long Course Swimming Championships and Olympic Trials, as 20-year-old Bethany Carson slipped under Michelle Smith’s 100m butterfly mark from 1996.

This year’s European Swimming Championships have been switched from Antwerp to Debrecen due to financial problems.

SILVER medallist swimmer Gráinne Murphy was showing no sign of Leaving Certificate results nerves as she returned home to a hero’s welcome.

Ireland's latest swimming sensation 17-year-old Gráinne Murphy has arrived home.

Ireland's Grainne Murphy is back in the pool this morning in the 1,500 metres freestyle at the European swimming championships.

GRÁINNE MURPHY suffered heartbreak at the European Swimming Championships in Budapest yesterday as she was just five-hundredths of a second shy of winning the bronze medal for Ireland.

Ireland's Grainne Murphy has missed out on a medal at the European Swimming Championships by just five hundreths of a second.

GRÁINNE MURPHY was the star turn on day three of the European Swimming Championships in Budapest yesterday.

IRELAND’S Ryan Harrison narrowly missed out on reaching the final of the European Swimming Championships in Budapest yesterday.

BELFAST’S Melanie Nocher yesterday smashed Michelle Smith’s 14-year-old Irish 200m backstroke record at the Speedo western Canadian swimming championships.

Dubliner Barry Murphy broke an Irish senior record and qualified for this evening's semi-final in the 50m Freestyle during the day six of the European Swimming Championships in Budapest, Hungary today.

Barry Murphy has broken the Irish record for the 100 metres freestyle event at the European Swimming Championships in Hungary.

It was a case of what might have been for the Irish swimmers competing on day three of the European Swimming Championships in Budapest this morning.

The Irish contingent will be hoping for an improved performance today as the European Swimming Championships continue in Budapest.

Ireland’s best swimmers begin their quest for European glory today with the start of the European Swimming Championships, which are being held in Budapest, Hungary.

THE spectacular success of the opening session of the Special Olympics at the €63m National Aquatic Centre yesterday should prove the catalyst for the completion of the ambitious Campus Ireland development, in the opinion of Liam Bohan, director of the Centre.