Monika Dukarska is a member of Ireland’s elite rowing squad and bidding to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the women’s pairs.

Jenny Egan, who made history last August as the first Irish athlete to medal at an ICF Senior Canoe Sprint World Championships with a bronze, is looking forward to a busy summer, starting next week with the first World Cup event in Poznan. She spoke to Daragh Ó Conchúir.

The airport will be a hive of activity this Easter holiday weekend.

Cork Airport has launched eight new routes to its summer schedule offering new services to Croatia, Italy, France, Hungary, and Poland.

Holidaymakers in the south will have the option to visit destinations from Dubrovnik to Lisbon, and from Naples to Poznań, with new flights.

The solution, for long-suffering devotees of Gaelic football, was staring us in the face all these years. Or rather it was turning its back on us.

Rugby Europe is to analyse the performance of the Romanian referee in charge of Belgium's controversial upset of Spain this weekend in a meeting on Friday.

An "intentional" attack could be the reason an apartment building collapsed in western Poland, leaving five people dead and 21 injured, a prosecutors' spokeswoman has said.

There’s a distinctive smell that signals the opening day of Puck Fair — a mix of horse manure, chips, and cigarette smoke — although this year some smokers have traded their cigarettes for vaping.

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.

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.

Denise Walsh and Aoife Casey continued a remarkable run of success for Rowing Ireland with a win in the London Metropolitan Regatta last weekend, taking the top spot in the Elite Championship double sculls at Dorney Lake. Monika Dukarska of Killorglin Rowing Club also took the title in the women’s single sculls. A total of fourteen Irish clubs were represented at the event.

The family of world university rowing bronze medalist, Ailish Sheehan, have paid tribute to the "ultimate warrior", at her funeral mass in Kildimo, Co Limerick.

The Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust has confirmed it has stepped in to assist the family of champion Irish rower Ailish Sheehan in returning her body home to Co Limerick.

A go-fund-me page, set up to help the family of champion athlete Ailish Sheehan, who tragically passed away last Friday from injuries sustained in a fall, has raised nearly $10,000.

The Irish flag will fly at half mast outside the Limerick City and Council Offices today as a mark of respect for Ailish Sheehan.

The President is leading tributes for Ailish Sheehan - the young Limerick woman who died in Poland where she was competing in the World University Championships for Rowing.

Séamus Mac Géidigh was broadcaster and manager of RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta’s northwest service in Donegal

We may not win the Euros, but we’re still leaving France with a medal.

And so we arrive at a point of definition in Euro 2016: a knockout game before the knockout stage, a cup final to gain access to another cup final.

Wes Hoolahan has been there before. Scoot back almost a dozen years and the Dubliner was an integral part of a superb Shelbourne side at the fag end of, what was at the time, the greatest European odyssey any Irish club had known.

What started as a steady trickle has, in the past 24 hours, become a deluge — the Irish are here en masse.

A railcar driver in western Poland has been hailed as a hero for saving passengers from injuries as the train crashed into a truck which was stranded on the tracks.

Hamish Adams is a New Zealander living and working in Ireland for 15 years. Formerly player services manager with IRUPA, he is now chief executive of Rowing Ireland who have sent a 14-person team to Poznan, Poland for this weekend’s European Rowing Championship.

Andy Townsend might struggle to remember Ireland’s 3-3 draw away to Poland in 1991 – the last competitive meeting between the two countries – but it’s a game which is lodged firmly in your humble correspondent’s memory banks.

FAI will sell tickets from 10am tomorrow for the March 29 EURO 2016 Qualifier.

A Russian military jet nearly collided with a commercial passenger airplane in international airspace near southern Sweden on Friday, Swedish authorities said, but Russia insisted its jet had kept at a safe distance.

Napoleon is now back with his Antosia.

So it’s business as usual, as in business unusual, across the Irish Sea, the fledgling new Premier League season having already sent the back pages into overdrive with LVG’s nightmare start at Old Trafford, Liverpool prepared to swap frying pan for fire as Balotelli replaces Suarez and, simply stinking the whole place out, the Malky Mackay scandal.

David Forde has set his sights on a remarkable double as he prepares to lock horns with Italy once again.

John O’Shea is determined to set the record straight as the Republic of Ireland prepare to meet the force of Germany once again.

If you were looking to conduct a scientific experiment to measure the national team’s progress from Giovanni Trapattoni to Martin O’Neill, you could hardly do better –or maybe that should be worse — than Dino Zoff did in Nice yesterday when the Italian goalkeeping legend paired Ireland with Germany in Group D of the France 2016 Euro qualifying draw.

Sarah Connolly discovers that hotels all over the world are tuning in to the needs of tech-savvy travellers with up-to-date gadgets.

Lego, dogs, and trips abroad to see family were among the most desired gifts this year, a group of third-class pupils told Claire O’Sullivan

The local security man on duty at the media entrance to the stadium in Poznan on Tuesday night had one pressing question on his mind for the Irish journalist: where oh where was Giovanni Trapattoni?

The first fortnight of Martin O’Neill’s reign can only be seen as a very encouraging start, bringing back a feelgood factor to Irish football which hasn’t been there since before the Euros last year.