'Honour and glory' at Leeside ceremony for Cork's Olympic heroes

Gold medallists Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy alongside bronze medallists, from left, Emily Hegarty, Fiona Murtagh, Aifric Keogh and Eimear Lambe. Picture: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

For the Olympic rowers, Saturday evening might have been an example of perfect symmetry. 

From the Land of the Rising Sun, here they were, back on the banks of the River Lee, being rightly feted as that same sun slowly dropped over the horizon.