Rowing: Tomorrow's Monkstown and Cork Harbour regatta at Inniscarra Lakes, which incorporates the cancelled Cork City regatta, kicks off a sequence of busy weekends which feature Henley Royal Regatta, the final World Cup at Lucerne and the Irish Championships.

Beyond this, the Home Internationals and the Coupe de la Jeunesse, a European junior championships, occupy the next two weekends - and athletes wishing to represent Ireland at these and the World University Championships in August must prove themselves in Cork.

The trial aspect has given an edge to an already big event - remarkably, 29 junior A scullers seek glory and the chance of an Ireland vest. In the men's senior final, Shandon, Cork and UCC will compete for the Leander trophy normally given out at Cork City regatta, but some of the keenest competition will be aimed at catching the eye of Ireland coach Harald Jahrling.

Fermoy stages its domestic event on Sunday, while a number of the athletes who have trained in the Irish system, but will not be going to Lucerne, head for the Holland Beker regatta in Amsterdam over the weekend.

UCD's raid last weekend on Women's Henley brought them the elite eights' title, while St Michael's had an excellent day on Saturday at the Athlone regatta, crowned by the men's senior eights title. Only a small number of Irish boats, most from Northern Ireland, are involved in qualifying for Henley Royal Regatta today. Garda Siochana's coxed four must, however, qualify for the Britannia.

Henley Royal Regatta - Qualification Races, today (Selected, Irish Interest): The Wyfold (Club coxless four) 4.20: Belfast RC "B". Prince Albert (Student coxed our) 4.30: Queen's University, Belfast. The Britannia (Club coxed four) 4.44: Garda Siochana. Princess Elizabeth (Junior eight) 7.30: Royal Belfast Academical Institution.