Irish swimmers depart for Italy
Monday, 13 July 2009The Irish swimming squad have departed for a training camp in northern Italy in advance of the World Swimming Championships in Rome.
The team includes Andrew Bree, who finished eleventh overall in the 200m breaststroke at the Beijing Olympics, along with fellow Olympians Melanie Nocher and Aisling Cooney.
Ireland are sending a team of thirteen swimmers to Rome, the largest ever Irish swimming team to be sent to a World Championships event.
Bree, Nocher and Cooney are joined by US-based swimmers Barry Murphy, Karl Burdis and Ryan Harrison, and Bangor's Clare Dawson, who is based at the University of Stirling in Scotland.
Three of the team, Grainne Murphy, Niamh O'Sullivan and Nuala Murphy, are based out of Swim Ireland's High Performance Centre at the University of Limerick.
Donal O'Neill of Trojan Swimming Club, Conor Leaney of Larne SC and Limerick's Fiona Doyle complete the team.
The World Swimming Championships begin in Rome on 26 July.
