Rowing Ireland are concerned by the immediate cancellation of all international events through March, April and May.

Facilities may only be one small step towards sporting success, but many in athletics are in celebration mode after various projects took a giant leap towards becoming reality.

Ireland’s elite athletes have one ambition for 2020 — to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. Sharon Ní Chonchúir talks to four contenders about the steps they are taking to foster a winning mindset.

The victories may already be receding into the background, but for Michelle Carpenter the hard work is only beginning.

Ireland's three semi-finalists were defeated at Henley Royal Regatta this afternoon.

Ireland’s world champion sculler Sanita Puspure demonstrated the age-old funding quandry faced by elite Irish athletes at the announcement of Kinetica’s major new sponsorship of Rowing Ireland yesterday.

Generations of professional athletes have struggled with the transition from a life in lycra or gaudy nylon to civvies, but a glance at Claire Lambe’s diary would suggest that the former Olympic rower has negotiated it with ease.

While the years of arduous training has given the O’Donovan brothers the edge to overcome mental challenges, they stress that they always try to inject a bit of fun into everything they do.

Rowing Ireland are “miles behind” their competitors in terms of capital and staff despite success at the World Championships, says CEO Michelle Carpenter.

The 2018 Musgrave Triathlon has raised an astonishing €250,000 for three extremely worthy causes.

On another superb weekend for Irish rowing, Paul and Gary O’Donovan won gold in the men’s lightweight double sculls at World Rowing Cup 111 in Lucerne, Switzerland yesterday while teammate Sanita Puspure took silver in an incredibly tight race in the women’s single sculls.

The National Rowing Centre was tranquil as the water on sun-kissed Inniscarra Lake yesterday with Ireland’s top rowers putting on a united front to launch the international regatta season and kickstart new Rowing Ireland chief executive Michelle McElligott Carpenter’s reign.

In 2017, Shane O’Driscoll and Mark O’Donovan found another gear. After a series of near misses they blew their rivals away to win European and World Championship golds. It hasn’t made them rich, it’s barely kept a boat on the water, or a car on the road. But it kept the dream alive. Now, however, a political decision means they must start all over again and risk everything in their bid to make the Olympics.

On Saturday, over 250 rowers will be taking to the water in either a single scull or a pair, and on Sunday, crews will be formed into double sculls and fours by Rowing Ireland HP management, based from Saturday’s racing.

Ireland send an 11-strong team to the European U23 Rowing Championships in Kruszwicka, Poland, this weekend.

New Rowing Ireland High Performance Director, Antonio Maurogiovanni believes his international experience from seven Olympic Games can help develop the sport across the country.

Rowing Ireland will be looking to continue their rich vein of form having set off for Hazewinkel in Belgium where they will compete in the Coupe de la Jeunesse this coming Saturday and Sunday.

The water of the Taiscumar Reservoir behind Farran Wood attracted crowds on Saturday as the Irish Rowing Championships took place.

The stretch of water hidden behind Farran Wood rarely looked better than it did yesterday, the lake sparkling in a blazing sun as the National Rowing Championships took place.

A bumper weekend of racing is in store in Cork as the 2017 Irish Rowing Championships take place at the National Rowing Centre from tomorrow through to Sunday. 

The World Rowing Cup regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland, presents Ireland’s seniors with a final chance to test themselves before the year’s main event, the World Rowing Championships in September.

If last weekend’s Cork Regatta is a reliable barometer, the National Championships next month (July 14-16) will draw unprecedented entries to the National Rowing Centre at Farran, Cork.

O’Sullivan was honoured with the accolade of Outstanding Contribution to the Olympic Movement in Ireland at the inaugural Olympic Council of Ireland Awards last night.

Following another successful weekend for Rowing Ireland, this time at World Cup II in Poznan, Poland, the focus returns to domestic rowing, with the Cork City Regatta taking place this weekend at the National Rowing Centre.

The 2017 World Rowing Cup series heads to Lake Malta near Poznan in Poland tomorrow for the second of three regattas in the series. Almost 500 athletes will compete from 39 countries with several, including Australia, China and New Zealand, on the international scene a first time this season.

The first World Cup event of the season looms large for Ireland’s senior rowers. World Cup One takes place in Belgrade, Serbia from May 5-7.

Irish international rowers didn’t disappoint at last week’s hugely successful Skibbereen Regatta.

UCD repeated last year’s results by taking the Gannon Cup, Corcoran Cup, and Sally Moorhead Trophy at the Dublin University Boat Races (Colours) 2017. It also means nine of the last 10 Gannon Cups have gone to UCD and the gap in the overall standings is now 4 (Trinity with 36 wins to UCD’s 32, and one dead heat).

The 60th Erne Head of the River (HOR) took place last weekend in Enniskillen, with an entry of 90 crews from 29 clubs taking part in the event, which consisted of a 6,000 metre time trial. 

International trials and assessment will take place at the National Rowing Centre in Farran Wood, Cork, on the weekend of March 25-26th.

Paul and Gary O’Donovan remain the two fastest lightweight scullers in the country. 

More good news for Munster rowing: The Kerry Head of the River returns after a seven-year absence. 

Rowing Ireland’s High Performance director, Morten Espersen confirmed this week he is resigning from his position, bringing to a close a huge contribution made by the Dane over the past four years. 

The stand and temporary seating were packed and the star attractions didn’t disappoint as Skibbereen’s O’Donovan brothers lit up the 2017 Indoor Rowing Championships at the University of Limerick on Saturday.

The rowing boom has seen an explosion of interest in next Saturday’s Irish Indoor Rowing Championships at UL, the largest indoor rowing event in Ireland.

A Cork town is in line for a €5m economic boost from major competitions due to take place at Ireland’s elite rowing centre over the next 18 months.

Business leaders in one of Cork’s largest towns will host a special event tomorrow night to celebrate the incredible successes of the National Rowing Centre based nearby.