Practice for this weekend's World Youth Angling Championships is underway at the Greenway in Coachford in Co Cork.

In the weeks and months leading up to their historic win yesterday, Paul and Gary O’Donovan would sit on a couch on either side of their grandmother Mary Doab, their laptops in front of them, showing her footage of their training from earlier that day.

It had a sheen of Rio, the carnival atmosphere that descended on the town of Skibbereen when its two Olympians, Paul and Gary O’Donovan, yesterday claimed a place in the men’s lightweight double sculls Olympic final.

The Rowing Ireland training facility on Inniscarra Lake is overlooked by a wooden-decked balcony.

Size: 110 (1,200 sq ft)

On a pleasant day, the view from the National Rowing Centre is picture postcard perfection.

Sq m: 213 (2,300 sq ft)

The first major coarse angling competition of the 2012 season was held at the Inniscarra Lake last month using the Garden Centre Stretch, Rooves Bay and St John’s sections.

ROWING: SKIBBEREEN are top of the Rowing Ireland Grand League points table coming into this today’s Cork regatta.

The ESB said it was not possible to predict what volumes of water would have to be discharged from the Inniscarra Dam in the hours before Cork city was flooded last month.

A TOTAL of 16 tourism-related projects in Co Cork are to benefit from €1.1 million in funding from Fáilte Ireland and Cork County Council.

The annual Monkstown Regatta takes place on the six-lane, 2000-metre course at the National Rowing Centre, Farran Wood, Inniscarra Lake today.