Darragh Greene finished 13th in the 200m breaststroke semi-final at the European championships in Rome.
Longford's Greene posted 2:12.73 having came through his earlier heat. Greene will be in action again on Monday in the 50m breaststroke heats.
Elsewhere, Mona McSharry finished in fifth place in the 100m breaststroke final in Rome. McSharry entered the final as the third seed, touched home in 1:07.14.
“I put high expectations on myself and that’s not really where I wanted to be tonight” explained McSharry.
“It would have been nice to go another 1:06 but that’s the way the cards fall sometimes, and I did all I could”.
Gold and silver went to Italy’s Benedetta Pilato (1:05.97) and Lisa Angilioni (1:06.34). Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte took Bronze in 1:06.50.
In the 50m Backstroke semi-final, Danielle Hill clocked 28.54, the exact same time as this morning, and moved up a ranking place to fourteenth overall. The Tokyo Olympian is back in the pool for the 50m Freestyle and 100m Backstroke heats on Monday.
Tomorrow, McSharry will be joined by Ellie McCartney and 100m Breaststroke semi-finalist Niamh Coyne in the 200m Breaststroke.
Finn McGeever makes his first appearance of the Championships in the 200m Freestyle with Robbie Powell. Shane Ryan competes in the 50m Backstroke while Grace Hodgins will swim the 1500m Freestyle.
