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Two Killarney women to represent Ireland at major rowing event
TEAM IRELAND: Zoe Hyde and Molly O’Sullivan will represent Ireland at the Home Countries International Regatta this weekend.
By Sean Moriarty
EXCLUSIVE
Two Killarney women have been selected to represent Ireland in the HomeCountriesInternational Regatta in Scotland tomorrow (Saturday).
The annual regatta features teams from Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales and outside of the World Championships and Olympics - this is one of the biggest rowing events in this part of part of the world.
Molly O’Sullivan from Ballyhar and Zoe Hyde from Beaufort will compete in the Women’s 4+(four rowers plus a Coxswain) class at the Glasgow-based event with two other girls from Commercials Rowing Club in Dublin.
The pair, both members of Killorglin Rowing Club, have been competing together since they were students at Killorglin Intermediate School. They are currently studying together at the University of Limerick where they have been following a strict training regime enforced by their coach Mike Fleming of the Laune Club.
It will mark O’Sullivan’s first time representing Ireland, but it is Hyde’s third time at the Home International Regatta. They found out last Sunday that they had made the Irish team following the Irish championships in Inniscarra in Cork over the weekend.
“We have been training two times a day all summer and recently upped that to three times a day,” Molly told the Killarney Advertiser. “We have been following Olympic-style training. We are just after the Irish championships so our fitness is quite high, but we had some recovery time too since last weekend.”


