Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy win European rowing Championships gold

Ireland's Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy celebrate after winning the Lightweight Men's Double Sculls final A in Munich. Photograph: Maja Hitij/Getty ImagesThey call it the lightweight double sculls only Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy may as well be in a class of their own, the Skibbereen duo winning another gold medal on the water in Munich here on Sunday with a truly remarkable display of dominance.

At the halfway 1,0000-metre mark O’Donovan and McCarthy moved into second, still utterly unbothered by the Swiss crew who were clearly giving their all.Only with 500m remaining did the Irish hit the front, a half-boat length clear swiftly becoming a full boat-length and they won by 3.

Now 28, O’Donovan further extends his status one of the most decorated sportsman in Irish sporting history: Olympic gold and Olympic silver, four World Championship titles, now three European Championship gold and two silver, and not forgetting the Henley regatta he won with McCarthy not long after Tokyo, a prize he jested was possibly the bigger deal anyway.

Victory there went to the British pair of Imogen Grant and Emily Craig, who just missed out on an Olympic medal in Tokyo, with Claire Bové and Laura Tarantola of France holding on for silver before reigning Olympic champions of Italy snatching the bronze ahead of Ireland. They were just .64 of a second short.

Well done lads and ladies Aughadown, Skibbereen and Leap parishes... Explain how? Its that river isn't it The Ilen maker of medals home of Olympic Champions, special to all who live here.

Well done

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