The O'Donovan brothers are claiming the family silver in Rio

Skibbereen: Population: 2,000; 2016 Olympic Silver medal winners: 2; Time it took to win those medals: 6 minutes 31.23 seconds; Amount of celebratory sculling done in the West Cork town last night: Nobody’s business.

It’s not often a rowing club can lay claim to having created five Olympians in the space of 16 years but there’s definitely not another in Ireland that can say it produced a duo so good that they won our first Olympic medals for rowing, and did so in style, gliding from fifth at the halfway mark to second at the line.