New Irish record and three golds for Mona McSharry

Mona McSharry set a new Irish 50m breaststroke record during the TYR Pro Swim Series in Knoxville, where she won gold in all three breaststroke races.

The 22-year-old McSharry took 50m breaststroke gold when going 30.56 seconds.

That time by the graduate of the Marlin's Swimming Club in Ballyshannon shaved 0.31 seconds off her previous best.

McSharry held off Miranda Tucker (31.29) and Sophie Angus (31.72) to win.

Donegal trio land national gold medals

Sean McGinley, Alex Anderson and Siobhan Doherty won golds at the Junior and U23 Indoor Championships with plenty of other medals coming back to Donegal.

The Tennessee Vols swimmer, a third year scholarship student at the University of Tennessee, won the 200m breaststroke when finishing in 2:26.34 in her home pool.

McSharry won well from Alexis Yager (2:30.17).

The Grange woman began the competition by winning the 100m breaststroke. McSharry took gold in 1:06.80 in the early hours of Friday.

McSharry, who reached the Olympic final in the 100 breast in 2021, dominated the second half of the race to claim a big win.

Last month, McSharry won gold in the 100m breaststroke and 4x100 relay at the US Open.