Liam Gorman
Liam Gorman is a writer and reporter. He is the co-author of Little Lady, One Man, Big Ocean, published in the United States and Canada as Crossing the Swell. He is the rowing correspondent of the Irish Times.
A 17-strong Ireland team will travel to the World Rowing Coastal Championships in Bari in Italy. John Keohane, the champion in the men’s single last year, and Monika Dukarska, the women’s single champion in 2009 are part of the team.…
Neil Fleming and Peter Egan in K2 (racing kayak) were the fastest crews in the Liffey Descent today, covering the course in a fast one hour 49 minutes and 10 seconds. John Boyton and Graham O’Regan were almost six minutes…
Eight hundred paddlers are set to take on the challenge of the Liffey Descent on Saturday. The 28.2 kilometre race from Straffan in Kildare to Islandbridge in Dublin starts at 12.30. The event was postponed from its early-September slot because…
Fisa have awarded the 2012 World Coaches Conference to Ireland. The conference will be held in the Strand Hotel in Limerick on 2nd-4th November 2012. The hotel overlooks the course used for the recent interprovincial sprint event. The conference was previously…
Ulster and Munster tied for the top spot in the Limerick City of Sport Sprint Regatta on Saturday. Ulster stormed into an early lead, winning the first two events and being well placed in the next few races. They maintained…
Competitive rowing makes a return to Limerick City with the announcement that the Limerick European City of Sport Sprint Regatta will take place in Limerick City Centre on Saturday afternoon, September 24th. To celebrate Limerick’s designation as European City of…
County Leitrim has received a welcome boost with the announcement that a recent round of Government funding will enable the development of an international standard rowing facility on Lough Rinn, near Mohill in the south of the county. The funding…
Ireland finished 16th in the K1 men’s team event at the Canoe Slalom World Championships at Bratislava in Slovakia today. Germany were first in a time of 110.79, while Ireland, made up of Ciaran Heurteau, Patrick Hynes and Eoin Rheinisch,…
Heurteau's London 2012 Bid Comes Up Short at Canoe Slalom World Championships
11th September 2011 Canoeing
Ireland’s Ciaran Heurteau finished 28th in the K1 semi-finals at the Canoe Slalom World Championships this morning in Bratislava in Slovakia. The top 10 go to the final, but a place in the top 15 countries would have qualified the…
Ireland will have one boat in the semi-finals of the Canoe Slalom World Championships in Bratislava in Slovakia. Ciaran Heurteau placed 38th in the heats of the men’s K1, qualifying for Sunday’s semi-finals, in which 40 boats compete. Eoin Rheinisch…
Neither of Ireland’s women’s K1 paddlers made it through to the semi-final of the Canoe Slalom World Championships in Bratislava today. Aisling Conlon finished 61st and Hannah Craig – who was given a 50-second penalty for missing gate nine on…
Organisers at the Canoe Slalom World Championships in Bratislava today cancelled racing for a second day due to weather concerns. The new schedule (printed IN FULL below) sites both the women’s and men’s K1 heats tomorrow (Friday). Ireland’s Hannah Craig…
The first day’s action at the Canoe Slalom World Championships in Bratislava in Slovakia was cancelled yesterday evening. Aisling Conlon and Hannah Craig had done their first runs in the women’s K1 but the organisers voided the results and cancelled…
Ireland had two A Finalists at the World Rowing Championships in Bled in Slovenia this morning. The men’s lightweight quadruple scull of Niall Kenny, Michael Maher, Justin Ryan and Mark O’Donovan finished fourth, with Denmark pipping them for the bronze…
Ireland’s Siobhan McCrohan and Claire Lambe just pipped France in a photo finish for fifth in the C Final of the lightweight women’s double scull at the World Rowing Championships in Bled in Slovenia. The original results gave the two…
Lisa Dilleen and Sanita Puspure finished sixth in the B Final of the double scull at the World Rowing Championships in Bled in Slovenia this morning, missing out on a chance to qualify the boat for the Olympic Games next…
Ireland’s Adaptive Coxed Four finished second in the A/B semi-final at the World Rowing Championships in Bled in Slovenia to qualify for tomorrow’s A Final – and guarantee a place at next year’s Paralympic Games in London. The crew of…
Ireland won two races in the second half of the programme at the World Rowing Championships in Bled in Slovenia today. Sarah Dolan had an outstanding second 1,000 metres to win the C Final of the lightweight single sculls. The…
Ireland’s Lisa Dilleen and Sanita Puspure finished sixth in their semi-final of the women’s double scull at the World Rowing Championships in Bled in Slovenia. They go into tomorrow’s B Final where they can book a place for the boat…
Coleraine man Peter Chambers struck gold at the World Rowing Championships in Bled in Slovenia today. Chambers, who rowed at junior level for Ireland, teamed up with Kieren Emery to win the lightweight junior pair for Britain. Italy were second…
