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#WorldUnder-23Rowing: Shane O’Driscoll and Gary O’Donovan brought Ireland a second semi-final place this morning at the World Under-23 Championships at Linz in Austria. The repechage of the lightweight double sculls turned into a three-way battle for two places between Ireland,…
#WorldUnder-23Rowing: Paul O’Donovan won his quarter-final of the lightweight single sculls at the World Under-23 Championships in Linz in Austria this morning after an interesting race. Enes Kusku of Turkey led – and led well – for much of the…
#WorldUnder-23Rowing: The Ireland women’s four secured the first A Final place for Ireland at the World Under-23 Rowing Regatta at Linz in Austria today. The crew of Emily Tormey, Ailish Sheehan, Aifric Keogh and Lisa Dilleen needed to finish in…
#WorldUnder-23Rowing: Ireland’s Shane O’Driscoll and Gary O’Donovan finished third in their heat of the lightweight double sculls this morning at the World Under-23 Rowing Championships in Linz in Austria. France set the winning pace and Italy followed them into the…
#WorldUnder-23Rowing: Ireland took its second good result of the morning as the men’s pair of Seán O’Connor and Fionnán McQuillan-Tolan qualified for the semi-finals with second behind Australia at the World Under-23 Rowing Championships in Linz in Austria. Angus Moore…
#Angling - Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has put out a request for assistance in its new National Bass Programme. IFI has established the National Bass Programme to collect data on bass in order to provide scientific advice to support management…
#WorldUnder-23Rowing: Denise Walsh qualified for the Semi-finals with a controlled performance which brought her the second of two qualification places in lightweight single sculls at the World Under-23 Championships this morning in Linz in Austria. The Skibbereen woman started well…
#WorldUnder-23Rowing: Paul O’Donovan won his heat at the World Under-23 Rowing Championships in Linz in Austria today. The lightweight sculler controlled the race and though any of the top four places would have taken him through to the quarter-finals, his…
#WorldUnder-23Rowing: Ireland’s men’s four of Richie Bennett, Jonathan Mitchell, Matthew Wray and Rob O’Callaghan finished fifth in their heat at the World Under-23 Championships at Linz in Austria today. Like the Ireland women’s four at the Championships this is a…
#WorldUnder-23Rowing: Ireland’s women’s four of Emily Tormey, Ailish Sheehan, Aifric Keogh and Lisa Dilleen finished second in their first race at the World Under-23 Championships at Linz in Austria today. Only one crew qualified directly for the A Final, and…
#rowing – Killarney Rowing Festival will celebrate the oldest regatta in the world and wonderful rowing tradition on the Lakes of Killarney, on Sunday 28th July, 2013, at Killarney Golf and Fishing Club, Killarney, County Kerry. The Festival will host…
#Angling - Minister of State Fergus O'Dowd gave some words of encouragement ahead of the World Youth Fly Fishing Championships taking place this week till 26 July in venues across Louth, Monaghan, Meath, Tyrone and Antrim. The event will help…
#IrishRowingChampionships: NUIG/Gráinne Mhaol produced one of their best ever rows to win the senior eights championship of Ireland at the National Rowing Centre in Cork today. The defending champions had a fine start and upped the tempo down the course…
#IrishRowingChampionships: Claire Lambe and John Keohane won the men’s and women’s senior single sculls titles at the Irish Rowing Championships at Farran Woods in Cork today. Both had hard battles before crossing the line as winners. Lambe had a disappointing…
#IrishRowingChampionships: Experience counts in difficult conditions, and the water became very choppy for the second session of finals at the Irish Rowing Championships. Sinead Jennings described it as “the hardest conditions I have rowed in” but the 36-year-old former world…
#IrishRowingChampionships: NUIG continued where they left off on the second day of the Irish Rowing Championships at the National Rowing Centre in Cork. Their intermediate eight were full of conviction as they charged through the line to beat UCD, and…