Our guide to watching the Irish at the Olympics - what you need to see and when

With a record number of Irish athletes – 133 to be exact – headed to Paris to compete, here is our guide to watching the Olympics from your sofa, if you want to watch with pride as our Irish entries take to the world stage at the highest level.

Rowing: Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy have won five gold medals together at world, European and Olympic level, and they take to the water on Sunday, July 28th for their first race at 11am.

Aifric Keogh and Fiona Murtagh will compete in the women’s pairs and their first heat begins on Sunday, 28th July at 9.30am.

Boxing: Aoife O’Rourke from Roscommon is one to watch, having one gold at the last three European Championships. She needs to win two fights to be guaranteed a medal. Since Tokyo, she has competed in 28 fights, winning 27. The woman who beat her in the World Championships is not going to be in Paris. Her first fight is on Wednesday, July 31st at 10am.

Kellie Harrington is also a reigning European champion – and Olympic gold medallist – so she too only needs two wins to get a medal in Paris. It’s the last competition of her boxing life, she says, so she will give it everything. Her first fight is on Monday, July 29th at 11am.

Swimming: Daniel Wiffen is a double world champion and world record holder. He is also a triple European short course champion, at only 22 years old. His first race is Monday, July 29th at 10am.

The 400m freestyle finals will be on for the men at 7.42pm on July 27th, while the women’s will be on 10 minutes later at 7.52pm. The men and women’s 4 x 100m freestyle relays finals will be on at 8.34pm and 8.44pm respectively on that day too.

Gymnastics: Rhys McClenaghan had hopes of a medal in Tokyo, but missing out, has improved every year. He is a