A look ahead to the Irish athletes competing on the opening day of the Beijing Olympics.
Saturday(All times Irish)
23:30-3:30am Equestrian- Day 1 Dressage
Geoff Curran, Niall Griffin, Louise Lyons, Austin O'Connor and Patricia Ryan
02:00-06:30 Shooting- Men's Trap qualifying
Derek Burnett
03:00 Fencing— Women's Individual Sabre first round
Siobhan Byrne v Irena Wieckowska (Poland) winner to meet Elena Nechaeva (Russia)
03:45 Badminton— Men's Singles first round
Scott Evans v Marc Zwiebler (Germany)
04:00-10:30 Cycling— Men's Road Race
Nicholas Roche and Philip Deignan
06:00-12:00 Sailing— Men's Finn class races 1 and 2
Tim Goodbody
08:30 Boxing— Men's Light Heavyweight
Kenny Egan v Julius Jackson (ISV)
10:50 Rowing— Men's Heavyweight Four Heat 3 IRL, France, Germany and Australia (first 3 to semi-final) Cormac Folan, Sean Casey, Jonathon Devlin, Sean O'Neill
11:50 Badminton— Ladies Singles first round
Chloe Magee v Kati Tolmoff (Estonia)
12:15 Equestrian Day 1 Dressage
Geoff Curran, Niall Griffin, Louise Lyons, Austin O'Connor and Patricia Ryan
13:35 Swimming— Men's 100m breaststroke heat 5
Andrew Bree