After a four-day series that delivered a full range of conditions, Howth Yacht Club’s Ross McDonald and the crew of Equinox won the Sovereigns Cup at Kinsale on Saturday.

An intense battle unfolded yesterday in the waters below the historic Camden Fort Meagher in Crosshaven, Co. Cork.

It was a bittersweet prize-giving for double-Olympian Peter O’Leary at the newly refurbished Kinsale Yacht Club late on Saturday evening.

LIGHT winds on Dublin Bay ended the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta in marked contrast to Thursday’s opening race near gale conditions and left close results across the fleet before the overall prize was awarded to the class two entry Supernova from the host port.

THERE were few changes on the top of the leader-boards after the second day of the ISA Youth National and Junior Pathway Championship in Schull yesterday.

Sports clubs and voluntary groups across Dublin are to be given more than €10m to improve facilities a bid to get more people involved, it was revealed today.

Cork sailor John Twomey produced Ireland's best result of the Paralympics so far, as he guided his 23ft keelboat to third in the second of today's Sonar class races at the Agios Kosmas centre.