Ellen Walshe and Jack Cassin have qualified to the semi-finals of the 200m butterfly and will join Daniel Wiffen, who will compete in the 800m freestyle final, in action on Saturday evening at the European Short Course Championships in Lublin, Poland.
Walshe has a particularly busy night ahead as she competes in the 200m Individual Medley final and just 30 minutes later, the semi-final of the 200m Butterfly.
The Templeogue swimmer came through this morning's butterfly heats comfortably in 2:10.63 to progress in fifth overall.
She spoke after the race: "I guess I kind of chilled, when we were in the call-room we knew there was only 16 swimming, I just needed to get a decent lane tonight. There was no point going all out this morning when everyone is getting in, so I could have done whatever, but you still want a decent lane.
"Tonight, is about taking it race by race, one is a final, and the other is a semi, at least the final comes first then whatever is left I’ll hopefully get a position in the final tomorrow."
In the men’s 200m butterfly heats, Cassin clocked 1:54.71 to place fifth in his heat and advances into the semi-final as the 13th fastest overall.
The National Centre Limerick swimmer said, "The ultimate goal was making it back for the semi-final, I’ve been waiting this whole competition for my main event. Seeing how good the guys have been gives me a lot of confidence, knowing what I can do and to see the team kill it is so good."
Adam Bradley, making his senior Ireland debut this week, set his first Irish junior record in the heats of the 50m Breaststroke.
Bradley won his heat in 27.09 seconds, breaking Eoin Corby’s 2019 record of 27.29.
Corby was also racing the heats of the 50m breaststroke and swam a life-time best 26.81, going under 27 seconds for the first time he finished second in his heat.
200m backstroke European Champion (25m) John Shortt was the first Irish swimmer in action on Saturday morning.
The Galway teenager swam a personal best of 23.88 in the 50m backstroke placing second in his heat and was just four hundredths of a second outside Conor Ferguson’s Irish junior record of 23.84.
Evan Bailey was the best of a trio of Irish swimmers in the 50m freestyle heats.
Bailey, who has already taken bronze in the 200m freestyle this week, won his heat in the 50m freestyle, the Wexford swimmer clocking a time of 22.11.
Cormac Rynn finished fifth in the same heat in a time of 23.02, while Matthew Hamilton placed fourth in his heat, posting a time of 22.30.
In the Women’s 50m freestyle, Rosalie Phelan swam under 25 seconds for the first time in 24.97, taking .28 of a second off her best time of 25.25 from the World Aquatics World Cup in October, though it wasn't sufficient to progress to the semi-finals.
Watch the action from Lublin live on Eurovision Sport.
