UCC graduates Séafra Guilfoyle and Johnny Durcan will contest the Irish 49er Olympic trial with the backing of a new sponsor next month.
The Royal Cork duo have bagged €10k in sponsorship from the National Business Machines Group headquartered in Cork.
The Olympic trials series against Tokyo veterans Robert Dickson and Sean Waddilove from Dublin will decide who sails for Ireland at the Paris 2024 Olympic Regatta and will consist of three week-long regattas from March through to April.
As regular Afloat readers will recall, Dickson and Waddilove won a Nation Place at the European Championships in Vilamoura last November.