Royal St George YC Sets The Pace In Junior All-Ireland Title

25th September 2022

Royal St George YC in Dun Laoghaire - founded in 1838, but right up to the minute in modern Ireland and junior sailing

The Royal St George YC in Dun Laoghaire may have been founded way back in 1838, and it makes its headquarters in one of the stately classic buildings which set the traditional style on the harbour waterfront.

But 184 years after its founding to serve the needs of a special very established niche in Irish society where young sailors were seldom seen, let alone heard, it's now in some ways a different place altogether.

This evening, RStGYC is right up to speed on national junior sailing with the win and a four-place dominance in the first six places at the conclusion today (Sunday) of the national All-Ireland Junior Championship in Schull, West Cork.

And it does it with a team list which reads more like the roll call at a Gaeltacht Summer School than resonating with the names of RStGYC sailors of yore.

The preliminary published results give RStGYC's Fiachra Geraghty-McDonnell the win, and though the second place was taken by Ben O'Shaughnessy of the Royal Cork, two more Royal St George junior sailors - Archie Daly and Trevor Bolger - come in at third and fourth with Howth then getting a two-place look-in, with rising Optimist star Harry Dunne placing fifth ahead of Youth Worlds Gold Medallist and defending champion Rocco Wright in sixth.

Junior Champions’ Cup 2022 results

Boat	Helm	Club	Class	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	M	Tot	Net	Place
3	Fiachra Geraghty -McDonnell	Royal St. George Yacht Club	ILCA 6	1	2	4	4	10	1	1	4	2	29	19	1
1	Ben O’Shaughnessy	Royal Cork Yacht Club	29er	6	1	3	1	2	3	2	12	16	46	34	2
14	Archie Daly	Royal St. George Yacht Club	Team Racing	4	3	2	3	4	4	5	9	12	46	37	3
13 (Sail21)	Trevor Bolger	Royal St. George Yacht Club	Team Racing	3	4	1	2	6	5	3	6	20	50	44	4
2	Harry Dunne	Howth Yacht Club	Optimist	9	9	5	10	3	7	4	2	10	59	49	5
22	Rocco Wright	Howth Yacht Club	ILCA 6	2	8	7	9	9	9	6	10	4	64	54	6
15	Patrick Foley	Royal St. George Yacht Club	RS Feva	8	7	12	5	5	6	8	7	8	66	54	7
20	Lucia Cullen	Royal St. George Yacht Club	29er	15	6	10	6	1	2	12	15	6	73	58	8
9	Adam McGrady	Galway Bay Sailing Club	420	12	5	8	12	11	8	7	1	14	78	66	9
12	Riona McMorrow Moriarty	Tralee Bay SC, RCYC	Topper	10	10	9	8	7	10	11	11	18	94	83	10

5	Conor Cronin	Malahide Yacht Club	Optimist	14	16	5	15	5	11	9	8		83	67	11
4	Isha Duggan	Royal Cork Yacht Club	Optimist	7	11	6	13	12	13	(UFD)	5		84	67	12
6	Max Cully	Blessington Sailing Club	Gp14	13	13	13	11	6	15	14	3		88	73	13
10	Hannah Dadley-Young	Ballyholme Yacht Club	ILCA 4	11	15	15	7	8	14	13	14		97	82	14
11	Alexander Fought	Blessington Sailing Club	Mirror	5	12	14	16	14	(UFD)	15	13		106	89	15
8	Georgia Goodbody	Royal Irish Yacht Club	Waszp	16	14	16	14	(UFD)	12	10	16		115	98	16

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