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ROWING: Michael Maher is the Afloat Rower of the Month for March. The Dubliner won the Open Lightweight category at the British Indoor Championships in Nottingham. In 2010 he was part of the Ireland lightweight quadruple scull which took silver at the World Under-23 Championships. Last year he and the lightweight quadruple finished fourth at the senior World Championships.

Rower of the Month awards: The judging panel is made up of Liam Gorman, rowing correspondent of The Irish Times, President of Rowing Ireland Anthony Dooley and David O'Brien, Editor of Afloat magazine.

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ROWING: Ireland’s Michael Maher had a fine win at the British Indoor Rowing Championships at Nottingham on Sunday. The Dubliner, who is part of the Rowing Ireland squad based at the National Rowing Centre in Cork, won gold by over three seconds in the men’s open lightweight category. Maher recently rejoined his long-time club, Commercial from Three Castles.

The British Indoors, which also incorporated the Euro Open, is a huge event. The organisers say it is the largest parrticipant indoor sporting event in the United Kingdom.

British Indoor Rowing Championships, Nottingham, Sunday (Selected Result)

Men’s Open Lightweight: 1 M Maher (Commercial, Dublin) 6:20.1, 2 I Aristotelis (Limassol Nautical Club, Cyprus) 6:23.2, 3 J McAvoy (Chislehurst) 6:26.0.

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Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Yacht Race Information

The biennial Dun Laoghaire to Dingle race is a 320-miles race down to the east coast of Ireland, across the south coast and into Dingle harbour in County Kerry.

The race is organised by the National Yacht Club.

It never fails to offer a full range of weather, wind and tide to the intrepid entrants, ranging from a 32ft cruiser to a 79ft all-out racer.

Three divisions are available to enter: cruiser (boats equipped with furlers), racing (the bulk of the fleet) and also two-handed.

D2D Course change overruled

In 2019, the organisers considered changing the course to allow boats to select routes close to shore by removing the requirement to go outside Islands and Lighthouses en route, but following input from regular participants, the National Yacht Club decided to stick with the tried and tested course route in order to be fair to large and smaller boats and to keep race records intact.

RORC Points Calendar

The 2019 race was the first edition to form part of the Royal Ocean Racing Club “RORC” calendar for the season. This is in addition to the race continuing as part of the ISORA programme. 

D2D Course record time

Mick Cotter’s 78ft Whisper established the 1 day and 48 minutes course record for the Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race in 2009 and that time stood until 2019 when Cotter returned to beat his own record but only just, the Dun Laoghaire helmsman crossing the line in Kerry to shave just 20 seconds off his 2009 time.