Paul and Gary O'Donovan are Ireland's most successful rowers.

The brothers from Skibbereen have just added a gold medal at the World Rowing Championships in Bulgaria to their list of achievements, having already won Olympic silver at Rio 2016.

They are also involved in Repak's Team Green initiative, officially launched today, which is designed to educate the Irish public on the importance of recycling more.

Other members of Team Green include fellow Olympic medallist Annalise Murphy, Republic of Ireland football legend Paul McGrath, bestselling cookery author and entrepreneur Roz Purcell and businessman and entrepreneur Bobby Kerr.

Ireland has been one of the most successful countries in Europe for recycling plastics for the last 20 years, but as Paul and Gary point out, something as simple as recycling one extra plastic bottle a week will make a huge difference in helping Ireland achieve its future recycling targets.

Paul and Gary's success comes from years of hard work. They started rowing together at a young age and were coached by their dad. They enjoyed playing other sports at school, but started to focus completely on rowing in their early teens.

Since their Olympic victory they have attracted a lot of media attention, and they have used it as an opportunity to encourage kids to get involved in rowing: "It gave us a bigger platform to promote the sport and try and give something back."

Now that they are world champions, they are looking ahead to Tokyo 2020.

"The goal is definitely to try and win it. We'll train our hardest and live the best lifestyles we can in order to put us in a position to get the gold medal."

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