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28th April 2012

Irish Rugby Star Tommy Bowe to Meet Up With Kayak Challengers

#KAYAKING - Monaghan's Tommy Bowe will be in Carrick-on-Shannon this Wednesday 2 May to cheer on the hardy souls taking part in his fundraising kayaking challenge, as the Leitrim Oberver reports.

The Irish rugby international will meet 12 of his fellow countymen who today begin a marathon six-day 300km paddle in double sea kayaks along the Shannon-Erne Waterway from Killaloe to Clones.

The Tommy Bowe Shannon-Erne Challenge is raising funds for Glaslough Harriers Athletics Club in Monaghan.

For more on the challenge visit the fundraising website at www.tommybowechallenge2012.com.

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago