Rowing Ireland are pleased to announce that a recent anonymous financial donation from the USA, facilitated through The Ireland Funds, has been granted to Castleconnell Boat Club and the Rowing Ireland High Performance Programme. The injection of funds will allow the facilities at Castleconnell BC to be upgraded accordingly, as …
Farmers from around the country received the 2018 RDS Spring Awards at a ceremony in Ballsbridge, Dublin last week. Ashtown Katie, owned by Kilkenny couple, Michael and Niamh Barron of The Rower, took the Irish Angus Society Award. Ashtown Katie was purchased as a maiden heifer in 2014 at … …
THREE of Cork’s rising stars were yesterday honoured at The Ambassador Hotel by the Evening Echo. Nathalie O’Brien, Phil Healy and Margaret Cremen were selected as the first quarter winners as the prestigious Evening Echo Ladies Sports Star Awards rolls into its 12th year. The high-profile event is … …read …
Now his memory has been honoured, as a boat bearing his name will sail up and down the river as the pride and joy of Cumann Rámhaíochta Choláiste na Coiribe (CRCC ), Galway’s Irish language and ever-growing rowing club. Last weekend, Paul Giblin’s family and friends gathered for the handing …
Rowers from all over Ireland will flock to Mohill over the May Bank Holiday weekend when Lough Rynn hosts the prestigious 2018 Lough Rynn Regatta. With the new facilities proving such a hit and events from as far away as Galway being held at the Leitrim facility, Lough Rynn is …
All U23 and Juniors who hope to be invited to the next national team trials need to submit a 2km open rate ergometer test (as per event requirements previously published) within the next week, April 23 – April 29.
The drag factor is free. The body weight for the U23 …
Former Leinster and Connacht second row Damian Browne has opened up on his experiences rowing solo across the Atlantic Ocean – including the shocking moment where he capsized while asleep. Browne traversed 4,800KM from the Canary Islands to Antigua, spending 63 days at sea on his own. …read more
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Putting aside their rivalry on Easter Sunday in Clonakilty, rowers from Ring, GalleyFlash, Kilmacsimon, Castletownbere and Courtmacsherry joined forces with rowers from Passage West, Blackrock, Whitegate and Fenit rowing clubs to smash the previous world record when they rowed 100,000 metres … …read more
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CORK women rowers are basking in glory today following a fantastic weekend of rowing in Italy. News began to filter through on Saturday that the ladies were doing well, and this was confirmed when Ireland won gold, and then silver, at the 32nd Paolo d’Aloja international memorial regatta, which took …
NUIG Women’s Senior x8 who won the Bank of Ireland Cup at the 2018 University Championships of Ireland Regatta.
FOR the first time in the event’s history, the University Championships of Ireland rowing regatta was won overall by the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) Boat Club.
The regatta, which …