Andrew Bree News

Swim Ireland have announced a ten-strong squad of four men and six women for the up and coming European Short Course swimming championships write RTE sport's John Kenny.

Ryan Lochte took Michael Phelps record in winning gold in the men's 200m individual medley in 2 minutes 54.10 seconds.

Ireland's Andrew Bree was someway short of his best as the Irish Olympian failed to advance to the semi-finals in his specialist 200 metre breaststroke writes RTE Sports John Kenny at the World Swimming Championships in Rome.

ATHLETICS: Paul Hession is on course to make Irish athletics history by qualifying for the final of the 200m at the World Championships in Berlin next month.

Dubliner Barry Murphy, crest fallen when he was told that he wouldn't be part of the Irish Oymplic team for Beijing, has continued his rehabilitation in spectacular fashion by making the semi-finals of the men's 50 metres breastroke at the World Swimming Championships in Rome, writes RTE Sport's John Kenny.

Thirteen Irish swimmers, the largest representation ever, will be at this week's world swimming championships at the 13,000 capacity Stadio del Nuoto in Rome as new swimsuit technology threatens to overshadow the nine-day long meet, reports RTE Sport's John Kenny in the Italian capital.

The Irish swimming squad have departed for a training camp in northern Italy in advance of the World Swimming Championships in Rome.

Ireland's squad for the upcoming World Championships in Rome now stands at 12 after Olympian Andrew Bree qualified for the men's 100 and 200 metres breast stroke at a meet in Athens, Georgia.