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17 Irish rowers set for action at European Championships

Fintan McCarthy and Konan Pazzaia will team up in the men's double sculls in Bulgaria
Fintan McCarthy and Konan Pazzaia will team up in the men's double sculls in Bulgaria

Team Ireland will have 17 rowers across eight boat classes representing at the 2025 European Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

RTÉ will have live coverage of the four-day event that begins on Thursday, 29 May and runs through until Sunday.

The European Championships will represent the first major international event of the new Olympic cycle.

Paul O'Donovan is the big-name absentee, with the three-time Olympic medallist missing out to concentrate on his medical studies

Nine of Ireland’s 2024 Olympians are back in action, including Paris medallists Daire Lynch, Philip Doyle and Fintan McCarthy, who will be joined by three high-performance athletes making their senior international debuts, Izzy Clements – Lightweight Women’s Single (LW1x), Aisling Hayes – Women’s Quad (W4x) and Claire Feerick, returning to international competition in the W4x.

There will be live coverage of the European Championships on both Saturday and Sunday morning from 8.30am on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player.

Thursday 29 May

LW1x – Izzy Clements

Preliminary Race: 8:07am

LM1x – Jake McCarthy

Heat 1: 8:12am

M2 – Ross Corrigan and Daire Lynch

Heat 1: 8:34am

W2x – Zoe Hyde and Mags Cremen

Heat 2: 9:04am

M2x – Fintan McCarthy and Konan Pazzaia

Heat 4: 9:24am

W4x – Alison Bergin, Aisling Hayes, Natalie Long and Claire Feerick

Heat 1: 12pm

M4x – Philip Doyle, Ronan Byrne, Adam Murphy and Andrew Sheehan

Heat 2: 12:15pm

W1x – Fiona Murtagh

Heat 1: 12:27pm

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