Ireland remains top of the medals table with after two days of competition at the inaugural European Under 23 swimming championship at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin.

Three swimmers, Daniel Wiffen, Mona McSharry and Ellen Walshe have all the medals between them with one day of competition to run. The trio have five golds and two silver to their credit.

The night began with a bang for Ireland as Mona McSharry added the 100m breaststroke title to her victory in the 50m on Friday, winning a terrific race in a modest time of 1:06.69, holding off Kaitlyn Dobler of the USA by the smallest of margins, one hundredth of a second.

McSharry produced a world class time of 1:05.55 seconds in the recent world championships which qualified her for the 2024 Paris Olympics and said afterwards that she was happy with the win as she was tapered for the worlds rather than the Dublin meet.

"Yeah, the time was slower than the worlds, but the Japan meet was my main goal this season and the time qualified me for Paris, so to win the 100 here was a bonus" she said.

The 22-year-old former Olympic youth champion will wrap up her three days of competition in her final event the women's 200 Breastroke on Sunday at the NAC.

Asked whether she could treble up, McSharry’s reply was, "let’s see".

Ellen Walshe, despite being beaten in the 400m individual medley final by the American Justina Kozan, was declared the European U23 champion in 4:42.37, as Kozan could only take home a commemorative medal as a non-European swimmer with Walshe picking up her second title.

Daniel Wiffen, winner of the 1500m freestyle on day one was the fastest qualifier in the 400m freestyle, but despite winning a creditable silver (3:47.57), the Loughborough based swimmer had to play second best to the Bulgarian Petar Mitsin who won gold (3:46.16) with USA's Rex Maurer third (3:47.63)

Maria Godden made her second final appearance of the weekend in the women’s 100m backstroke final where she was placed 5th in 1:02.21.

Limerick swimmer Eoin Corby won his 200m Breaststroke heat, touching first in 2:12.67 to progress to the final in third place, but could only finish 5th in the decider with gold going to Lucien Vergnes of France (2:10.04)

In the 400m freestyle women’s final, the sold-out crowd were treated to a top-class swim by Germanys Marie Isobel Gose, the 2022 Rome European champion who won cruising in the final, winning in 4:05.96.

In earlier heats Grace Hodgins recorded 4:25.28 to finish is tenth place overall in the 400 free for the final. John Shortt, competing in the 50m Backstroke touched in 26.56.

Oisin Tebite, made his senior debut for Ireland in the 50m freestyle while in the 200m butterfly, Jack Cassin came home in 2:00.12 while Molly Mayne went 1:13.08 in the 100m breaststroke and Liam O’Connor 2:20.10 in the 200m breaststroke.

All failed to advance to the evening’s finals.