Sean McComb secured Ireland a second European games medal with victory over Turkey’s Yashin Yilmaz yesterday.

Brendan Irvine battled from behind to land Ireland’s first ever European games medal in Baku, Azerbaijan, yesterday.

Ireland all but assured themselves of a place in the quarter-finals of badminton’s European Mixed Team Championships yesterday with a 3-2 defeat of hosts Belgium at the Sportoase arena in Leuven near Brussels.