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Dun Laoghaire to Host IRC Euro Championships in 2024 - RORC

2nd October 2023
The IRC Euro Championships is open to all IRC-rated boats and Ireland's biggest IRC fleet is on Dublin Bay
The IRC Euro Championships is open to all IRC-rated boats and Ireland's biggest IRC fleet is on Dublin Bay Credit: Afloat

London's Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) has announced Dun Laoghaire as the venue for its IRC European Championships in 2024.

While a host club has yet to be named, RORC's provisional programme 2024 says the eighth championship edition will be held in September on Dublin Bay.

Alternating between the North and the South of Europe (the Channel and the Mediterranean Sea), the IRC European Championship is a flagship event of the 2024 IRC season and typically aims to bring together more than 60 boats.

The event is open to all IRC-rated boats. Typically, it will consist of a minimum of four coastal or tactical races (coefficient 1) and a long coastal race (coefficient 2). 

Following the inaugural championship as part of  Cork Week in 2016, the event sailed in Marseille in 2017, Cowes in 2018, and San Remo in 2019; the event sailed in Hyères, France in 2021 before moving to Brekens, Holland, in 2022 and in Cannes, France last June.

A screenshot of part of RORC's provisional programme for 2024 showing Dun Laoghaire as the IRC Euros venueA screenshot of part of RORC's provisional programme for 2024 showing Dun Laoghaire as the IRC Euros venue in its last event of the season

At the end of the week, a trophy rewarding the leaders of each IRC Class will be awarded, as well as a Special Trophy for the first in the overall ranking who will be crowned European IRC Champion.

See RORC's provisional programme for 2024 here

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THE RORC:

  • Established in 1925, The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) became famous for the biennial Fastnet Race and the international team event, the Admiral's Cup. It organises an annual series of domestic offshore races from its base in Cowes as well as inshore regattas including the RORC Easter Challenge and the IRC European Championship (includes the Commodores' Cup) in the Solent
  • The RORC works with other yacht clubs to promote their offshore races and provides marketing and organisational support. The RORC Caribbean 600, based in Antigua and the first offshore race in the Caribbean, has been an instant success. The 10th edition took place in February 2018. The RORC extended its organisational expertise by creating the RORC Transatlantic Race from Lanzarote to Grenada, the first of which was in November 2014
  • The club is based in St James' Place, London, but after a merger with The Royal Corinthian Yacht Club in Cowes now boasts a superb clubhouse facility at the entrance to Cowes Harbour and a membership of over 4,000

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Royal Ocean Racing Club T: +44 (0) 1983 295144 E: [email protected] W: http://www.rorc.org/

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