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.
The Cork Head of the River on Saturday (February 29th) is set to go ahead. The rowing event is scheduled for the Marina in Cork, and it may be able to deal better with the recent bad weather than some…
Canoeist Liam Jegou First Team Ireland Athlete Officially Chosen for Tokyo 2020
19th February 2020 Canoeing
Canoe Slalom racer Liam Jegou has become the first Team Ireland athlete to be selected for the Tokyo Olympic Games this summer. Originally from Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare, the France-based Jegou has already stamped his mark on the international stage, winning…
The bad weather has forced the cancellation of the Ireland trial which was scheduled for the National Rowing Centre this weekend. One crucial aspect of the trial, tests for the senior women’s sweep group, will go ahead – in Gavirate…
Sligo has joined New Ross in cancelling their Head of the River. Both rowing events were scheduled for this Saturday (February 15th), and both fell to the forecast of stormy weather. In recent weeks, Muckross and Lagan Scullers’ heads were…
The Afloat Rowers of the Month for January are Sanita Puspure, Philip Doyle and Paul O’Donovan, all of whom set new Irish records at the Irish Indoor Rowing Championships. Puspure’s times have been good for years, but the world champion…
The Lagan Scullers’ Head of the River, set for Saturday, has been cancelled. The forecast today stated that severe weather, with a yellow wind warning, could hit Belfast at noon on Saturday. This would have forced the cancellation of at…
Muckross Head of the River, set for Saturday at the National Rowing Centre, Farran Woods, has been cancelled. The event, which was originally to be held in early December, will not go ahead because the weather forecast at the venue…
The All in a Row event on the Liffey late last year was held for a good cause. The funds raised from it and from a concert featuring Phelim Drew, Lisa O’Neill and John Cummins in Ringsend resulted in a…
The Canoeing Ireland Awards Gala on Saturday night, which marked achievements in the sport in 2019, had plenty to celebrate. Liam Jegou, who will represent Ireland in canoe slalom at the Tokyo Olympics and Robert Hendrick, who qualified the boat,…
#Rowing: The big guns in Irish rowing shot down record after record at the Irish Indoor Rowing Championships at the University of Limerick today. Philip Doyle and Sanita Puspure set new Irish men's and women's records. Doyle's crashed through the…
Paul O'Donovan, Fintan McCarthy and Sanita Puspure named Afloat Rowers of the Year
31st December 2019 Rower of the Year
Ireland’s two world champion crews of 2019 are the Afloat Rowers of the Year. Sanita Puspure defended her title in the women’s single sculls, while Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy proved themselves the best lightweight double in the world. Paul…
The year 2020 may be the busiest so far for Irish rowing. The highlight will be the Olympic Games in July, where the men and women in green are in the hunt like never before for medals. There is also…
In a wonderful rowing year for Ireland, Sanita Puspure’s achievements stood out, and she has been chosen as the Irish Times Sportswoman of the Year. Puspure, who turns 38 today, defended her title as world champion in the single sculls,…
An Irish crew, the Salty Pair, will row the Atlantic ocean next year. Dubliners Rob Collins and Kev O’Farell will be part of the Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge, which is set to leave the Canary Islands in mid December heading…
St Joseph's of Galway were the fastest crew in the shortened second head at the Head of the Shannon rowing event in Carrick on Shannon today. The men's junior 18A eight rowed well and set a provisional time of nine…
Jamie Douglas-Hamilton is attempting to enter the history books with a world first, rowing 750 miles unassisted and without wind power from Cape Horn in South America to mainland Antarctica across Drake Passage, considered the most dangerous ocean crossing in…
The Neptune/Belfast Boat Club masters men's eight were the fastest crew home in the first head of the Head of the Shannon rowing event in Carrick on Shannon today. In reasonably good conditions they went off first and set a…
Muckross Head of the River, set for Saturday, has cancelled but rowing people will be glad to hear that the big Head of the Shannon event in Carrick-on-Shannon is set to go ahead. The organising committee of Muckross Head said…
Irish canoeists are generally very pleased that the whitewater course on the Dublin Docklands as been given the greenlight. Though the idea for the course did not orginate from Canoeing Ireland, it opens up the welcome possibility of slalom canoeists…
The UCD Boat Club Annual Dinner was a celebratory end to an outstanding year for the rowing club. The victory of the men’s senior eight at the Irish Championships was marked with a special presentation - the club had also…
