Shane Ryan finished third in his 50m freestyle heat at the Rio Aquatic Centre last night, ending Ireland’s interest in the swimming pool at the Olympic Games.

Here's a full recap on how Team Ireland got on yesterday in Rio.

Fiona Doyle’s Olympic Games came to a frustrating conclusion last night when a second-place finish in her heat of the 200m breaststroke wasn’t enough to see her qualify.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Your one-stop guide to all the Olympic action featuring Irish athletes.

Fiona Doyle probably wouldn’t have taken kindly to the suggestion at the time but the Limerick swimmer knows now that failure to make the Olympics four years ago may be one of the best things to have happened to her.

Fiona Doyle has waited for her chance, and is very determined to make the most of Rio, says Helen O’Callaghan

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

If there’s one thing we know about our Olympic hopefuls, it’s that we don’t know all that much.

The Eurovision Song Contest Semi-Finals is on Tuesday and Thursday night on RTÉ2 at 8pm. The final is on Saturday. 

Athletes across the disciplines are gearing up for the Olympics in Rio later this year. Here five competitors acknowledge the role their mothers have played in their success, says Arlene Harris.

Fiona Doyle is ready for the spotlight.

Who will enter the national consciousness in 2016, and go from someone only an anorak or dedicated ‘Irish Examiner’ reader might know to a name — possibly even a face — that the casual sportsfan, even a Tubs or D’Arcy, might recognise? Here are tips offs about some names you can later brag to mates that you told them about them first.

Ann O’Loughlin looks back on the high-profile and occasionally controversial career of the late Justice Paul Carney

In Ireland, there is only one currency that trades at a profit when it comes to minority sports, so Fiona Doyle was front and centre with the general public last month when she won silver and bronze medals at the World University Games in Gwangju.

The 2015 Fina World Championships begins in the Russian republic of Tatarstan today and Chris Bryan will be the first of the Irish in action when he competes in the men’s 10K open water swim on Monday.

Thomas Barr etched his name into the history books yesterday morning when becoming the fourth Irish athlete to win gold at the World University Games.

Swimming: Fiona Doyle has qualified for next year’s Olympic Games following an impressive display in the 100m breaststroke semi-final at the World University Games in Gwangju, South Korea.

Abusive father gets 9 years in jail, after appeal on lenient sentence

A 74-year-old Dublin man, who repeatedly raped his daughter as a child, has had his jail sentence tripled on appeal.

The prison sentence imposed on the father of abuse victim Fiona Doyle was "unduly lenient", the Court of Appeal has found.

The Court of Appeal has ruled that the sentence handed down to Patrick O’Brien for raping his daughter Fiona Doyle was unduly lenient.

The new Court of Appeal will hear an application from prosecutors that the sentence handed down to the father of well-known abuse victim Fiona Doyle was unduly lenient.

The new Court of Appeal will hear an application from prosecutors that the sentence handed down to the father of well-known abuse victim Fiona Doyle was unduly lenient.

Dubliner Barry Murphy could have turned his back on swimming and considered retirement after not being selected by the Olympic Council for the 2008 Games in Beijing while others of lesser credentials got in ahead of him.

SWIMMING: Irish record holder Sycerika McMahon is the notable absentee from the National Long Course Championships which start tomorrow.

Early sexualisation of children and easy access to online pornography have been blamed by a leading children’s charity for a dramatic increase in rapes and sexual assaults against minors.

The widow of murdered garda, Adrian Donohoe, has spoken publicly for the first time about the devastating impact of her husband’s violent death on her family.

Sycerika McMahon set an Irish senior record in the 100m freestyle heats on her final day of competition at the World Swimming Championships in Barcelona.

Baby steps is how swimmer Fiona Doyle described her approach to the tomorrow’s World Championships, each swim an opportunity to close the gap on the pool’s elite.

But for a mix-up, Sycerika McMahon could be in line to make a final at the swimming world championships in Barcelona next week.

Mandatory sentencing should be abolished for all offences except murder, legal experts have advised the Government.

A new campaign is calling for the justice system to change how it deals with survivors of sexual abuse.

A major conference is being held in Dublin today to mobilise support for a campaign to help survivors of abuse.

Sex abuse survivors have come together to demand urgent action be taken to combat the ‘epidemic’ of sex abuse in Ireland.

Judges should be “compelled” to spend time in rape crisis centres to learn about sexual violence and the impact on victims, a new survivors group has said.

The mother of Fiona Doyle, whose father raped her repeatedly for 10 years when she was a child, is to face a Garda investigation for her alleged failure to protect her daughter from the horrific abuse she suffered.

The DPP has lodged appeal papers in the office of the Court of Criminal Appeal regarding the case of Patrick O'Brien, it was announced this afternoon.

Rape survivor Fiona Doyle, who fought for 20 years to have her father jailed for a decade of childhood abuse, is pressing prosecutors to bring charges against her mother.

Munster women are joining the global call for an end to violence and rape, writes Sharon Ní Chonchúir