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ROWING HENLEY REGATTA:ON A very good day for the Irish at Henley Royal Regatta, UCD took pride of place by qualifying two crews for the second round of the Temple Cup for student eights. In all, six of the eight Irish crews successfully came through the first day’s challenges.

Late last evening UCD’s intermediate eight overcame a slow start to beat Shrewsbury School and set up a meeting with the senior crew from the college today. “They were left off the start,” said coach Conor Walsh, “but they had a very, very solid second half.”