Swim Ireland has confirmed a team of 15 in diving and swimming for the LEN European Championships, which will take place at the London Aquatics Centre from 9-22 May.
2016 marks the first time in almost 20 years that Ireland will be represented at a senior European Diving Championships. Olympic qualifier Oliver Dingley will lead the team with 2015 European Games finalist Natasha MacManus and Jack Ffrench also competing.
Dingley and Ffrench will be first to take to the boards for the 1m Springboard preliminaries on Tuesday.
A team of 12 will represent Ireland at the pool swimming event.
Olympic Games qualifiers Fiona Doyle, Nicholas Quinn and Shane Ryan will compete, although Ryan’s participation will be dependent on his nationality transfer coming through from the International governing body FINA, due on 13 May.
The three will be joined by Sycerika McMahon, Dan Sweeney, Alex Murphy, Jordan Sloan, Brendan Hyland and Curtis Coulter, who has been drafted in for the men’s medley relay based on his performance in the 100m Freestyle at the Irish Open Championships last weekend.
Juniors Danielle Hill, Mona McSharry and Conor Ferguson will also be taking part. Ferguson was just five hundredths of a second off the Olympic qualification time in the 100m Backstroke at the Irish Open. Compet
