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#Rowing: Monika Dukarska qualified for the A Final of the women’s single sculls at the World University Rowing Championships in Poznan, Poland. The Killorglin woman finished a clear second in her repechage, with two going through to the A Final. There were B Final places for five other Irish crews: the men’s double sculls and lightweight double sculls and lightweight single sculler Chris Beck and for the women’s four and women’s double. Andrew Goff was set for the C Final in the men’s single.

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#Rowing: Monika Dukarksa placed second in her heat at the World University Rowing Championships in Poznan in Poland today. The Killorglin woman was four seconds behind Lisa Farthofer of Austria in her race. Just one competitor travelled on to the A Finals and the Austrian took this place. Other Ireland crews are also bound for repechages after the first set of heats.

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#ROWING: Ireland qualified two crews for the semi-finals of the World University Rowing Championships today. Shane O’Driscoll and Gary O’Donovan won their repechage of the lightweight double sculls and lightweight single sculler Chris Beck finished third in his to book their places in the penultimate stage of the competition in Gravelines in France. Four other Ireland crews face into repechages today.

World University Rowing Championships, Gravelines, France, Day One (Selected Results; Irish interest)

Men

Lightweight Double Sculls: Heat One (Three to A/B Semi-Finals; Rest to Repechage): 4 G O’Donovan, S O’Driscoll 6:36.85. Repechage (First Three to A/B Semi-Final): 1 G O’Donovan, S O’Driscoll 7:24.14.

Single Sculls – Heat One (Winner to A Final): 5 T Hughes 7:30.79.

Lightweight Single Sculls – Heat One (First Two to A/B Semi-Finals; rest to Repechage): 4 C Beck 7:25.30. Repechage (First Three to A/B Semi-Finals): 3 C Beck 8:15.18.

Women

Four – Heat Two (Two to A Final): 5 N Long, O Finnegan, G Collins, S Dineen 7:23.33.

Lightweight Double Sculls – Heat One (Winner to A Final; rest to Repechage): 2 R Morris, O Hayes 7:24.26.

Lightweight Single Sculls – Heat One (First Two to A Final; rest to Repechage): 5 Sinéad Dolan 8:23.94.

 

 

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#WorldUniversityRowing: Monika Dukarska finished fourth in the women’s single sculls at the World University Summer Games at Kazan in Russia today. The A Final was won by Natalia Dovgodko of the Ukraine in six minutes 13.76 seconds. Dukarska, who is from Killorglin, finished in six minutes 27 seconds.

World University Summer Games, Kazan, Russia (Rowing, Irish interest)

Women

Single Sculls – A Final: 4 M Dukarska 6:27.00.

Lightweight Single Sculls – A/B Semi-Finals: 4 A Bulman 6:18.39.

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Coastal Notes Coastal Notes covers a broad spectrum of stories, events and developments in which some can be quirky and local in nature, while other stories are of national importance and are on-going, but whatever they are about, they need to be told.

Stories can be diverse and they can be influential, albeit some are more subtle than others in nature, while other events can be immediately felt. No more so felt, is firstly to those living along the coastal rim and rural isolated communities. Here the impact poses is increased to those directly linked with the sea, where daily lives are made from earning an income ashore and within coastal waters.

The topics in Coastal Notes can also be about the rare finding of sea-life creatures, a historic shipwreck lost to the passage of time and which has yet many a secret to tell. A trawler's net caught hauling more than fish but cannon balls dating to the Napoleonic era.

Also focusing the attention of Coastal Notes, are the maritime museums which are of national importance to maintaining access and knowledge of historical exhibits for future generations.

Equally to keep an eye on the present day, with activities of existing and planned projects in the pipeline from the wind and wave renewables sector and those of the energy exploration industry.

In addition Coastal Notes has many more angles to cover, be it the weekend boat leisure user taking a sedate cruise off a long straight beach on the coast beach and making a friend with a feathered companion along the way.

In complete contrast is to those who harvest the sea, using small boats based in harbours where infrastructure and safety poses an issue, before they set off to ply their trade at the foot of our highest sea cliffs along the rugged wild western seaboard.

It's all there, as Coastal Notes tells the stories that are arguably as varied to the environment from which they came from and indeed which shape people's interaction with the surrounding environment that is the natural world and our relationship with the sea.