Mount Anville Win Round One of Shanahan Cup at Dun Laoghaire Harbour

1st December 2023

Light airs dominated for the morning – which meant that the busy Shanahan Cup schedule of races was under great pressure at Dun Laoghaire Harbour

The Shanahan Cup returned for the 2023 and 2024 academic year again on Wednesday, 29th November. Gonzaga College and the Irish National Sailing and Powerboat School hosted 16 teams from 12 schools, with over 100 sailors racing in RS Fevas in Dun Laoghaire Harbour.

The team from the INSS were all in before sunrise to prepare for the day’s action. The school’s yachting division and MarineServices.ie were on hand to build a pontoon base for teams not racing in the western harbour and a course was laid. The teams were ferried out and now all that was needed was some wind!

The 2023 Shanahan Cup - the Irish National Sailing and Powerboat School hosted 16 teams from 12 schools, with over 100 sailors racing in RS Fevas in Dun Laoghaire Harbour

Light airs dominated for the morning – which meant that the busy schedule of races was under great pressure. When the wind did finally fill in, schedule amendments meant that a semi-final round and final were held, however, teams had no need of feeling disappointed. They receive two sets of points from each event – one from their league finish position and the other from their results in the knockout rounds.

Overall winners were the Mount Anville Team, with St Gerards in second place. In third place were Gonzaga Team 1 and St Andrews Team 2 in 4th. Points awarded to each school are below:

Mount Anville (28 points)
St Gerards (27 points)
Gonzaga Team 1 (26 points)
St Andrews Team 1 (25 points)
St Michaels (24 points)
CBC Monkstown (22 points)
Blackrock Team 1 (21 points)
Holy Child Team 2 (18 points)
Willow Park (18 points)
Holy Child Team 1 (17 points)
St Andrews Team 2 (16 points)
Loreto Dalkey (12 points)
Gonzaga Team 2 (11 points)
St. Davids Holy Faith (9 points)
Blackrock Team 2 (8 points)
Loreto St Stephens Green (7 points)

INSS Principal Kenny Rumball was on hand to get some footage from the event – which can be viewed here:

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The new format for the Cup sees three race dates spread over Winter and Spring, with the results from each date counting towards the overall standings. Racing is due to take place on Wednesday, 17th January and Wednesday, 7th February 2024 – all that’s hoped for is a bit more wind!

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History of the INSS

Set up by Alistair Rumball in 1978, the sailing school had very humble beginnings, with the original clubhouse situated on the first floor of what is now a charity shop on Dun Laoghaire's main street. Through the late 1970s and 1980s, the business began to establish a foothold, and Alistair's late brother Arthur set up the chandler Viking Marine during this period, which he ran until selling on to its present owners in 1999.

In 1991, the Irish National Sailing School relocated to its current premises at the foot of the West Pier. Throughout the 1990s the business continued to build on its reputation and became the training institution of choice for budding sailors. The 2000s saw the business break barriers - firstly by introducing more people to the water than any other organisation, and secondly pioneering low-cost course fees, thereby rubbishing the assertion that sailing is an expensive sport.

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