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# ROWING: The final race of the Irish Schools Championships at the National Rowing Centre had a thrilling finish. Four crews crossed the line with just a small margin separating them in the men’s junior 15 coxed quadruple sculls. Intermediate School, Killorglin, got the verdict from Colaiste Iognaid, St Colman’s College and Presentation College, Cork.

 

RaceGradeEventHeat/Final      
    1st2nd3rd4th5th6th
1M J16 M J16 4X+Final Colaiste Iognaid RC Colaiste Iognaid RC B Colaiste na Coiribe RC Presentation College RC Intermediate School Killorglin St. Josephs College RC
2W OpenW Open 2XFinal Regina Mundi College Carrick-on-Shannon Community School Colaiste Iognaid RC    
3M OpenM Open 2-Final Presentation College RC St. Vincent's Castleknock College     
5M OpenM Open 1XHeat 1 De La Salle College (O'Mahony) Gonzaga College Drumshanbo Vocational School (Carty) Royal School Armagh (Nelson)  
6M OpenM Open 1XHeat 2 St. Josephs College RC B (Killeen) Sligo Grammar School (Patterson) St. Aloysius College (Hannon)   
7W J16W J16 1XFinal Mounthawk Secondary School (Ryan) The Wallace High School (Walker) Portadown College Boat Club (Flack)   
9M OpenM Open 4+Final Ard Scoil Ris St. Josephs College RC     
10M J15M J15 4X+Heat 1 Colaiste Iognaid RC Colaiste na Coiribe RC Blackrock College RC B   
11M J15M J15 4X+Heat 2 Intermediate School Killorglin St. Colman's College Presentation College RC B Presentation College RC   
12W J16W J16 4X+Final Carrick-on-Shannon Community School Colaiste Iognaid RC     
13M J16M J16 2XFinal Colaiste na Coiribe RC Colaiste na Coiribe RC St. Vincent's Castleknock College St. Josephs College RC   
14W OpenW Open 4X-Final Carrick-on-Shannon Community School      
15M OpenM Open 1XFinal St. Josephs College RC B (Killeen) Sligo Grammar School (Patterson) Gonzaga College De La Salle College (O'Mahony) St. Aloysius College (Hannon) Drumshanbo Vocational School (Carty)
16W OpenW Open 4-Final Colaiste Iognaid RC Laurel Hill     
17W J15W J15 4X+Final Loreto Fermoy Our Lady Bower Blackwater Community College Colaiste na Coiribe RC Laurel Hill  
18M J16M J16 8+Final Colaiste Iognaid RC St. Josephs College RC     
19M J16M J16 1XHeat 1 Carrick-on-Shannon Community School A (Mc Cabe) Drumshanbo Vocational School (Hartigan) Carrick-on-Shannon Community School B (Jordan)   
20M J16M J16 1XHeat 2 Marist College Athlone RC A (Munnelly) Waterpark College (Goff) Marist College Athlone RC B (Temple) Royal School Armagh (Bassett)  
21W J16W J16 2XFinal Intermediate School Killorglin Alexandra College Laurel Hill Intermediate school killorglian b Colaiste Iognaid RC St. Angela's College
22M OpenM Open 4X-Final Colaiste Iognaid RC Ard Scoil Ris Blackrock College RC    
23W OpenW Open 1XFinal Regina Mundi College Carrick-on-Shannon Community School A (Kelly) Royal School Armagh (Martin)   
24M OpenM Open 2XFinal Presentation College RC Drumshanbo Vocational School Royal School Armagh    
25M J16M J16 1XFinal Waterpark College (Goff) Marist College Athlone RC A (Munnelly) Marist College Athlone RC B (Temple)   
26M OpenM Open 8+Final St. Josephs College RC Presentation College RC     
27M J15M J15 4X+Final Intermediate School Killorglin Colaiste Iognaid RC St. Colman's College Presentation College RC B Colaiste na Coiribe RC Blackrock College RC B
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About Commander Bill King, Solo Circumnavigator

William Donald Aelian King was the last surviving submarine commander in the Second World War - in charge of the British Navy's T-class Telemachus that sank a Japanese sub in the Strait of Malacca, between Malaysia and Sumatra, in 1944.

Decorated many times for his service by the end of the war, King became a trailblazing solo sailor.

At the age of 58, he was the oldest participant in The Sunday Times Golden Globe Race sailing Galway Blazer II, a junk-rigged schooner he designed himself.

After a number of abortive attempts, including an incident with "a large sea creature", he finally completed his solo circumnavigation of the globe in 1973.

Beyond his aquatic escapades, King settled with his wife Anita (who died in 1984, aged 70) at Oranmore Castle outside Galway after the war, where he later developed a pioneering organic farm and garden to help tackle his wife's asthma.

The round-the-world sailor and Galway native Bill King died on Friday, 21 September, 2012, aged 102.