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#ROWING: The Ireland team for the Home International Regatta, which will be held at the National Rowing Centre in Cork on July 26th, will be chosen in a special trials process alongside the third National Assessment at the end of March. Athletes who do not make Ireland teams at a higher level should come into play in this process.

Tomorrow (Friday) is the last day for applications for the post of Leinster Women’s Rowing Development Officer. The one-year contract comes with a salary of €25,000.

Meanwhile, Amy Bulman has been appointed as communications officer with Rowing Ireland. As a rower, Bulman represented Ireland at the Universiade in Russia last year.

Published in Rowing

#RowingPosts: Rowing Ireland are seeking expressions of interest from suitably experienced, ambitious and enthusiastic individuals for the voluntary roles of coaches, managers and drivers for the  Junior, Coupe, Under 23 and Senior squads for the 2014 international season.

Interested candidates should send a brief Cover Letter by email to [email protected]

The deadline for applications is the 30th September 2013.

Published in Rowing

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