Rowing Ireland chiefs insist their high-performance athletes are following all safety protocols as they continue to train and prepare for the 2020 Olympics.

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

WORLD sculls champion Sanita Puspure got an early birthday present yesterday when she won the 2019 Sportswoman of the Year award.

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

After winning back-to-back world rowing titles Sanita Puspure returned home to Ballincollig on Monday to discover that her car, lying idle for five weeks, had a dead battery and wouldn’t start.

With four crews qualified for Tokyo, and a clutch of medals, Ireland’s rowers have much to celebrate following the world championships in Austria.

Ireland's Sanita Puspure has retained her gold medal at the World Championships in Austria.

It's O'Donovan's fourth consecutive World gold medal, after collecting two in the Lightweight Men's Single and two in the double, having won with his brother Gary last year.

Rowing Ireland’s representation at the Tokyo Olympics swelled again yesterday with Sanita Puspure, Philip Doyle and Ronan Byrne qualifying for the 2020 Games.

Two more Irish boats have secured qualification for next summer's Olympic Games.

Reigning champion Sanita Puspure has booked her place in the semi-finals at the World Rowing Championships.

Two Irish crews qualified for their A/B semi-finals on the third day of competition at the World Rowing Championship in Austria.

Two Irish crews qualified for their A/B semi-finals on day three of the World Rowing Championship in Austria.

Gary O'Donovan has earned a place in the quarter-finals at the World Rowing Championships.

The World Junior Rowing Championships in Tokyo resulted in a major first for Ireland, who qualified both their boats for the finals for the first time.

Despite their short time as a crew Ireland’s promising duo have already made their mark at the Sea Forest Waterway, the venue for next year’s Olympic regatta.

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

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.

Olympic silver-medalist Paul O’Donovan is the standout absentee from the Irish team that will travel to Lucerne for the 2019 European Rowing Championships that will take from 31st May – 2nd June.

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.

Olympic rower Claire Lambe retired from her sport last year at the age of 27, following a memorable career at the highest level. She and Sinead Lynch came sixth at the Rio Games, making history by becoming the first Irish women’s crew to make an Olympics final.

Gardaí have said they have formally requested the assistance of the Marine Casualty Investigation Board, after a 12-year old girl sustained serious injuries in a boating incident in Limerick yesterday.

There have been so many twists and turns in Sanita Puspure’s life, from the moment she quit rowing in Latvia to when she ruled the world in Bulgaria last summer.

Legendary Ireland rowing coach Dominic Casey has been announced as Coach of the Year by the World Rowing Federation.

Gary O’Donovan is hoping it will be third time lucky for legendary Skibbereen coach Dominic Casey in this year’s prestigious World Rowing awards.

Irish rowing has been recognised on the World Stage with three nominations at the World Rowing awards.

TOP-CLASS rower Sanita Pušpure may have returned from the world championships in Bulgaria with a gold medal for Ireland last month, but she’s not about to rest on her oars.

Sanita Puspure says that people asking about her age should be ashamed.

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.

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

She’s sacrificed a lot of family time to reach the top but world champion rower, Sanita Puspure, enjoyed some golden moments at her kids’ schools yesterday.

The Cork-based National Rowing Centre is inviting the public to its Farran Wood headquarters tomorrow to officially welcome home a golden trio.

Ireland’s newly crowned world lightweight double sculls champions Gary and Paul O’Donovan have scotched rumours that they won their recent gold using inferior equipment due to funding problems.

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

The number of women taking part in sport and excelling at an international level has increased in recent years but barriers still exist, writes Dr Una May.

A night out on the town set the O'Donovan brothers up for the best strokes of their life with Gary and Paul being met by up to 100 supporters at Cork Airport this evening as they returned home with their two gold medals from the World Rowing Championships.

There were red faces at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport following Sanita Puspure’s win in Bulgaria.