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#Rowing: Trinity’s senior men's eight finished 25th at the Head of the River in London on Saturday, while, remarkably in a field of 325 crews, UCD came in just one place further back, 1.43 seconds slower. The result was a reversal of the finishing positions at the Gannon Cup, which UCD won,  but in London UCD started 27 places behind Trinity, in 44th to Trinity’s 17th. Trinity’s second eight had over five seconds to spare on UCD’s second entry.

Head of the River (Eights), London, Saturday (Irish interest): 1 Oxford Brookes University One 17 min 34.66 sec; 25 Trinity One 18:37.53; 26 UCD Two 18:38.96; 64 Trinity Two 19:13.72; 73 UCD One 19:19.09.

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The Rankin Dinghy of Cobh, Cork Harbour 

A Rankin is a traditional wooden dinghy which was built in Cobh, of which it’s believed there were 80 and of which The Rankin Dinghy Group has traced nearly half. 

The name of the Rankin dinghies is revered in Cork Harbour and particularly in the harbourside town of Cobh.

And the name of one of those boats is linked to the gunboat which fought against the Irish Volunteers during the 1916 Easter Rising and later for the emergent Irish Free State Government against anti-Treaty Forces during the Irish Civil War.

It also links the renowned boat-building Rankin family in Cobh, one of whose members crewed on the gunboat.

Maurice Kidney and Conor English are driving the restoration of the Rankin dinghies in Cork Harbour. They have discovered that Rankins were bought and sailed in several parts of the country.