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27th January 2019

O'Donovan and O'Neill Shine in Dirty Dozen Test

#Rowing: Rory O’Neill and James O’Donovan of Castleconnell shared top billing in the men’s junior 18 rankings after the concluding stage of the Dirty Dozen Challenge. Eabha Benson of St Michael’s won the women’s junior 18 series. There were four rounds, beginning in October (three kilometres) and running through November (5k) and December and January (6k).

Category	Shell	Rower(-s)	Bow #	Place	Course time
W J16	1X	C. Leahy	112	1	00:14:50
W J16	1X	J. O'Brien (CCBC)	110	2	00:14:51
W J16	1X	R. Hickey (Shannon Rowing Club)	114	3	00:15:00
W J16	1X	C. Kiely (Castleconnell)	109	4th	00:15:02
W J16	1X	G. Fitzgerald (CCBC)	113	5th	00:15:29
W J16	1X	C. Ni Dhonabhain (SRC)	111	DNF
W J18	1X	�. Benson (SMRC)	76	1	00:28:45
W J18	1X	N. Kiely (Castleconnell BC)	74	2	00:29:04
W J18	1X	C. KIRWAN (SMRC)	75	3	00:29:58
W J18	1X	S. Gilmore (CCBC)	77	4th	00:30:00
W J18	1X	S. Fitzgerald (TRC)	78	5th	00:31:05
W J18	1X	C. Storan (SMRC)	82	6th	00:31:42
W J18	1X	C. Kelly (Castleconnell BC)	79	7th	00:33:37
W J18	1X	A. King (SMRC)	81	8th	00:33:48
W J18	1X	H. Bradshaw (CCBC)	80	9th	00:34:12
W J18	1X	O. Murphy (St Michaels)	84	10th	00:34:47
W J18	1X	�. Phillips (SMRC)	83	11th	00:37:41
W J18	1X	L. O'Brien (Castleconnell Boat Club)	73	DNF
W OPEN	1X	E. Redlichova (SMRC)	85	DNF
W U21	1X	C. O'Brien (Castleconnell boat club)	86	1	00:28:37
W U23	1X	S. Murphy (SMRC)	87	1	00:32:03
W U23 Lt Wt	1X	N. Hartney (SMRC)	88	1	00:29:34
W J16	2-	F. Gleeson (Shannon rowing club)
A. Curtin (shannon rowing club)	116	1	00:13:38
W J16	2-	E. McMahon (CCBC)
T. Mulready (Ccbc)	117	2	00:14:04
W J16	2-	C. Gleeson (Shannon rowing club)
A. Caffrey (Shannon)	115	DNF
W J18	2-	S. Byrnes (CCBC)
N. Silke (Castleconnell boat club)	92	1	00:27:44
W J18	2-	E. Mcinerney (Smrc)
E. Murphy (SMRC)	89	2	00:28:15
W J18	2-	A. Mckeon (Smrc)
M. O'Byrne (SMRC)	93	3	00:29:10
W J18	2-	N. Jones (SMRC)
K. McGann (SMRC)	94	4th	00:30:51
W J18	2-	S. Broggy (Athlunkard Boat Club)
M. Malone (Athlunkard Boat Club)	90	5th	00:31:08
M J16	1X	P. Mcinerney (Smrc)	105	1	00:13:11
M J16	1X	D. Foley (SMRC)	103	2	00:13:12
M J16	1X	G. O'Donoghue (Shannon Rowing Club)	97	3	00:13:21
M J16	1X	J. Cunningham (Castleconnell)	96	4th	00:13:41
M J16	1X	T. Byrne	99	5th	00:13:44
M J16	1X	I. Byrne Delimata (Castleconnell)	98	6th	00:13:49
M J16	1X	D. De Brun (SMRC)	104	7th	00:13:59
M J16	1X	N. Larkin Damm (Tralee Rowing CLUB)	102	8th	00:14:47
M J16	1X	S. Cunningham (CCBC)	100	DNF
M J16	1X	C. Oconnell (Waterville lake rowing cl...)	101	DNF
M J18	1X	R. O'Neill (Castleconnell)	59	1	00:25:39
M J18	1X	J. O Donovan (CCBC)	57	1	00:25:39
M J18	1X	M. English (St Michaels Rowing Club)	58	3	00:26:59
M J18	1X	J. Scanlon France (ABC)	60	4th	00:32:50
M J18 Lt Wt	1X	B. France (St. Michaels)	61	1	00:28:22
M J18 Lt Wt	1X	C. Bowen (Castleconnell boat club)	62	2	00:29:03
M Master B	1X	R. Egan (Ccbc)	63	1	00:27:01
M Master C	1X	c. Byrne (CCBC)	64	1	00:28:32
M OPEN	1X	D. O'Connor (St. Michael's Rowing...)	50	1	00:24:45
M U21	1X	R. Spelman (Smrc)	51	1	00:25:23
M U21	1X	C. Mulready (Castleconnel)	52	2	00:26:53
M U21	1X	J. Desmond (Caslteconnell)	53	3	00:28:16
M U21	1X	A. King (Athlunkard Boat Club)	54	DNF
M U23	1X	A. Lennon (St Michaels Rowing Club)	55	DNF
M J15	2-	R. Lyons (Castleconnell)
A. SWEENEY (Ccbc)	106	1	00:13:22
M J16	2-	E. Gilmartin (CCBC)
J. McGrath (CCBC)	107	1	00:12:48
M J16	2-	P. Mcinerney (Smrc)
D. Hartney (SMRC)	108	2	00:13:28
M J18	2-	R. O Gorman (St.Michaels Rowing Club)
D. Hartney (SMRC)	69	1	00:25:36
M J18 Lt Wt	2-	S. Fitzgerald (CCBC)
C. Nolan (Castleconnell)	70	1	00:26:50
M J18 Lt Wt	2-	C. Foster (SMRC)
C. Kemp (SMRC)	72	2	00:27:46
M J18 Lt Wt	2-	A. McFerran (CCBC)
E. Healy (Castleconnell Boat Club)	71	3	00:28:09
M Master B	2-	P. Williams (CCBC)
E. Meskell (CCBC)	65	1	00:26:05
M Master C	2-	k. mc donald
M. O'Callaghan (Shannon rowing club)	66	DNF
M U21	2-	J. O Brien (Castleconnel Boat Club)
C. Feely (Castleconnel rowing club)	67	DNF
M U23	2-	T. McKeon (St. Michael's rowing...)
J. Cuddy (SMRC)	68	1	00:24:31

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Babac and Dukarska Top Rowers of Dirty Dozen

#Rowing: Lukas Babac won the Dirty Dozen Challenge run by Castleconnell Boat Club, with Declan O’Connor of St Michael’s second. The Slovakian was a bronze medallist in the lightweight single sculls at the World Championships this year. Monika Dukarska of Killorglin was the top woman sculler, with Ruth Kilkenny of Castleconnell second. The final was run over six kilometres. Jim Quinlan and Clara O’Brien of Castleconnell won the junior 18 competition.

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About Conor O'Brien, Irish Circumnavigator

In 1923-25, Conor O'Brien became the first amateur skipper to circle the world south of the Great Capes. O'Brien's boat Saoirse was reputedly the first small boat (42-foot, 13 metres long) to sail around the world since Joshua Slocum completed his voyage in the 'Spray' during 1895 to 1898. It is a journey that O' Brien documented in his book Across Three Oceans. O'Brien's voyage began and ended at the Port of Foynes, County Limerick, Ireland, where he lived.

Saoirse, under O'Brien's command and with three crew, was the first yacht to circumnavigate the world by way of the three great capes: Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope and Cape Leeuwin; and was the first boat flying the Irish tri-colour to enter many of the world's ports and harbours. He ran down his easting in the Roaring Forties and Furious Fifties between the years 1923 to 1925.

Up until O'Brien's circumnavigation, this route was the preserve of square-rigged grain ships taking part in the grain race from Australia to England via Cape Horn (also known as the clipper route).

At a Glance - Conor O'Brien's Circumnavigation

In June 1923, Limerick man Conor O’Brien set off on his yacht, the Saoirse — named after the then newly created Irish Free State — on the two-year voyage from Dun Laoghaire Harbour that was to make him the first Irish amateur to sail around the world.

June 1923 - Saoirse’s arrival in Madeira after her maiden passage out from Dublin Bay

2nd December 1924 - Saoirse crossed the longitude of Cape Horn

June 20th 1925 - O’Brien’s return to Dun Laoghaire Harbour