As a mark of how far Irish swimming has evolved following the long and arduous road travelled since George Gibney fled the country and Derry O'Rourke was jailed for 12 years, the Irish Amateur Swimming Association (IASA) have now decided to make a momentous decision for change. They have decided to call themselves a different name.

Yes. No longer are they the stigmatised IASA but Swim Ireland. The decision will probably be ratified at the next a.g.m. in January when the association hopes that Dr Jim McDaid, the Minister for Tourism and Sport, will give them their funding back. The name change is part of the new public relations drive to sanitise the disgraced organisation following a litany of charges over the last eight years involving child sex abuse in the sport.

The IASA are also in the process of designing a logo that reflects the new character of the organisation coming up to the millennium. Sidelines has already been given a suggestion from an IASA member. Three monkeys. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.