On the waters off Weymouth, Peter O’Leary and David Burrows’ opening day results in the Star fleet suggest they managed to leave controversy ashore, delivering a promising opening which will provide Ireland’s sailors with all the encouragement they need when they start racing today.

A member of the North's Parades Commission whose membership of the Orange Order sparked a legal action has stepped down from the organisation.

Ireland’s sailors made little or no impact around the Saronic Gulf today, as Howth duo Tom Fitzpatrick and Fraser Brown remained 16th overall in the 49er fleet and Sydney veterans Mark Mansfield and Killian Collins tailed off again in the Star, finishing 15th to stay in last place.