Irish in action on Friday at the Olympics:
- Golf: 8.44am Shane Lowry, 11.06am Rory McIlroy
- Rowing: 9.30am Fiona Murtagh, Aifric Keogh (Women’s coxless pair B final),
- Rowing: 10.22am Ross Corrigan, Nathan Timoney (Men’s coxless pair A final),
- Rowing: 11.02am Paul O’Donovan, Fintan McCarthy (Men’s lightweight double sculls finals)
- Rowing: 11.22am Margaret Cremen, Aoife Casey (Women’s lightweight double sculls finals)
- Swimming: 10.18am Ellen Walshe (Women’s 200m IM)
- Athletics: 10.05am Andrew Coscoran, Cathal Doyle, Luke McCann (1,500m round 1)
- Athletics: 5.10pm Jodie McCann (5,000m, round 1)
- Athletics: 6.10pm 4 x 400m Mixed Relay (Round 1)
- Athletics: 7.10pm Eric Favors (Men’s Shot Put qualifying round).
- Sailing: 11.15am Eve McMahon (Dinghy series race), 2.35pm Finn Lynch (Dinghy series race).
- Sailing: 12.13pm Robert Dickson and Seán Waddilove (Skiff medal race).
- Equestrian: 1pm Shane Sweetnam, Daniel Coyle, Cian O’Connor (Showjumping team final)
- Boxing: 2.46pm Michaela Walsh (57Kg round 16)
- Hockey: 4pm Ireland v New Zealand
Rowing: Paul O’Donovan makes history by becoming the first Irish Olympian to medal at three Games - an outstanding performance by him and Fintan McCarthy.
Rowing: O’Donovan and McCarthy have done it, it’s GOLD!!! The Little Davids turned in to Goliaths! Magic!
Rowing: O’Donovan and McCarthy in the lead with 650m to go!
Rowing: O’Donovan and McCarthy in third at the 500m mark, Italy leading after an aggressive start. Greece in second.
Rowing: Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy are off in their lightweight double sculls final. Skibbereen (and all of Ireland) holds its breath.
Sinead Jennings, the former Olympic rower, is wondering by how much Fintan McCarthy and Paul O’Donovan will win their lightweight double sculls final, not whether they’ll win it. That class of talk is making us nervous. It’s up next.
Rowing: Ireland’s coxless pair Aifric Keogh and Fiona Murtagh ended their Olympic Games with second place in the B final at Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium. They pushed hard over the final 500m but couldn’t catch the Spanish pair who took a big lead early on.
Rowing: Corrigan and Timoney looked in with a shout of bronze at the half-way point of their final, but they dropped back thereafter and finished sixth. A nightmare ending for the British crew who caught a crab - not literally - at the death and were beaten on the line by Croatia. Switzerland took bronze.
Rowing: Britain pipped dramatically at the death by Croatia, Corrigan and Timoney finish in sixth.
Rowing: Corrigan and Timoney struggling now, their bronze hopes fading with 200m to go - Britain still leading.
Rowing: Corrigan and Timoney in sixth with 1300m to go, Britain leading the race.
Rowing: We’re off in the pair final, fair winds to you, Ross Corrigan and Nathan Timoney.
Sinead Jennings, speaking on RTE, reckons Enniskillen’s Ross Corrigan and Nathan Timoney will find it tough to win a medal in their pair final, this being their Olympic debut - so we should probably lower our expectations. A bit.
This is where we all need a bank of TVs and several sets of eyes - the rowing is about to clash with the athletics. Up first are Ross Corrigan and Nathan Timoney in the coxless pair final.
In athletics, no joy for Cathal Doyle in his 1500m heat, the Swords man finishing outside the top six - but he’ll have a second chance in the repechage.
In athletics, Cathal Doyle is up and running in his 1500m heat.
In athletics, we have three runners in the 1,500m heats this morning:
10:10: Cathal Doyle (Heat 1)
10:21: Luke McCann (Heat 2)
10:32: Andrew Coscoran (Heat 3)
Ian O’Riordan will be keeping an eye on everything on that very purple track - which is designed to give us a superior television experience. Why? No clue.
In rowing these are the times of the morning’s big finals, so take your phone off the hook:
10.22am - Ross Corrigan and Nathan Timoney (Coxless Pair Final)
11.02am - Fintan McCarthy and Paul O’Donovan (Lightweight Double Sculls Final)
11.22am - Margaret Cremen and Aoife Casey (Lightweight Double Sculls Final)
The first of the Irish in action today is Shane Lowry whose second round at Le Golf National tees off at 8.44am, Rory McIlroy getting started at 11.06am.
Lowry finished on level par in his opening round, enduring a frustrating day that ended with bogeys on 15 and 18 after a short weather delay for thunder and lightning. McIlroy had a better time of it, carding a three-under-par round of 68 to leave him five shots adrift of leader Hideki Matsuyama.
There was no little controversy in the boxing yesterday when Daina Moorehouse lost her 50kg division bout to French opponent Wassila Lkhadiri on a split decision when, as Ireland boxing head coach Zaur Antia put it, “if you have eyes, you know, every round was 5-0″ for the Bray fighter. Ian O’Riordan was in the North Paris Arena to witness it all.
Good Olympic morning everyone, Mary Hannigan here. John O’Sullivan is taking a well-earned breather after guiding you through the first six days of the Games. He’s a hard act to follow, but his substitutes will make an Olympic effort to fill the void, in a Citius, Altius, Fortius kind of way.
It’s another very busy - and potentially very thrilling - day for the Irish team in France, three of our rowing teams through to their A finals this morning, Robert Dickson and Seán Waddilove aiming for a medal in the rescheduled Skiff medal race, and our showjumpers eyeing a spot on the podium too after finishing sixth of the 20 nations on Thursday to make it through to this afternoon’s team final.
So, three rowing crews are in with a chance of an Olympic medal. Ross Corrigan and Nathan Timoney in the coxless pair, Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy and then Margaret Cremen and Aoife Casey in the lightweight double sculls ..... by 11.30am-ish, with any luck, we’ll be inundated with medals.
Track and field gets under way today too, with Ireland’s European champions in the 4x400m mixed relay starting their campaign - although it looks as if Rhasidat Adeleke will not be involved in the heats, her focus, for now, on her individual races.
