'Their names are carved in the roll of honour'- how George Hamilton called rowing bronze

"Ireland are home for third and a bronze as history is made"
'Their names are carved in the roll of honour'- how George Hamilton called rowing bronze

Ireland’s Emily Hegarty, Fiona Murtagh, Eimear Lambe and Aifric Keogh collect their bronze medals for the Women's Four during the Rowing at the Sea Forest Waterway on the fifth day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Japan. Picture: Mike Egerton/PA Wire. 

For Ireland's first medal of these Olympics, there was a suitably iconic voice in RTÉ commentary who has guided the nation through so many sporting highs and lows.

Here's how George Hamilton called a special moment in Tokyo for Irish sport.

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