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.

Michael Phelps' bid to win eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics came within a fingertip of failure in the 100metres butterfly, his penultimate event at the Water Cube.

AS the Government inches towards a crucial decision on the location of a much scaled-down national >stadium, all the signs are that Abbotstown is the front-runner over revamped IRFU rugby grounds at Lansdowne Road.