News on Irish Rowing, Angling, Waterskiing, Canoeing, Diving and Sea Swimming
#Fishing - The Marine Institute is encouraging the agreement of a new code of practice for oyster fishing at Ballinakill Bay in Co Galway, which is set to lose its disease-free status. Galway Bay FM reports that a single oyster…
#Angling - London angler Peter Vasey topped the pack at the Waterways Ireland Classic Fishing Festival in Fermanagh recently, according to the Impartial Reporter. Vasey's total catch across two sections at Crom on Upper Lough Erne - weighing in at…
#Canoeing - With para-canoeing set to join the list of sports at the Rio Paralympics in 2016, Canoeing Ireland says it is keen to develop the sport and identify and support athletes with hopes of representing Ireland. That was the…
#Diving - With the Lusitania back in the news, Ireland's wealth of interesting diving sites are bound to draw attention this summer. But it's worth remembering how dangerous an activity wreck diving can be - as Gizmodo reader Magicguppy relates…
#rowingireland – The 130th Galway Regatta will take place on Sunday 16th June 2013 at the NUIG Sports Facilities at Dangan, Galway. The announcement was made at a recent meeting of the Galway Regatta Committee held at the Galway Rowing…
# ROWING: Padddy Hegarty of Skibbereen and Bridget Jacques of Belfast Boat Club topped the rankings among the junior athletes at the Irish Trials in the National Rowing Centre in Cork. The announcement of results and the squads for the…
# ROWING: John Keohane was the fastest man at the Ireland Trials at National Rowing Centre in Cork today. However, the Lee Valley heavyweight was just nine hundredths of a second ahead of lightweight sculler Paul O’Donovan in the Time…
Mainstream Renewable Power Sponsors Irish Quest for Arctic Passage World First
3rd May 2013 Coastal Rowing
Global wind and solar company, Mainstream Renewable Power today announced its sponsorship of a rowing expedition attempting a world first through the infamous Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic this summer. Three experienced Irish adventurers and one Canadian are attempting…
#ROWING: The Afloat Rowers of the Month for April are the Galway Rowing Club under-23 women’s eight which won the Division One title at the Queen’s University Regatta, the first eFlow Grand League Regatta of the season. All eight rowers…
# ROWING: The Irish Universities Championships, which fell to the weather last month, have been rescheduled to Friday, May 24th, the eve of Metro Regatta, at Blessington. The event will run on a very pared-down version of the original programme.…
# COASTAL ROWING: The univsersities celebrated as the oldest rowing rivals will celebrate the oldest traditional regatta when crews drawn from Oxford and Cambridge alumni compete at Killarney Rowing Festival on Lough Lein on July 28th. The boat used will…
# CANOEING: Mark Clinton has been elected as the new president of Canoeing Ireland. The Salmon Leap member takes over after what he says were “turbulent” times in recent years. The executive resigned in December and the new president comes…
#Surfing - Cornish surfing pro Tom Lowe took on Ireland's incredible winter waves, and has the video to prove it! Shot by fellow Cornwall native Mickey Smith, the clip - via Surf Around Ireland - shows Lowe paddling into some…
#Surfing - A café-owning couple with twin passions for cooking and surfing have turned their successful business into an equally successful cookbook. As reported on Surfers Village, Jane and Myles Lamberth were recently featured on the UTV series James Nesbitt's…
#Rowing - St Michael's Rowing Club in Dun Laoghaire has posted the above video giving an oar's eye view of one of their regular evening coastal rowing training sessions. As the description says, the three-and-a-half-minute clip was shot with a…
# ROWING: Young crews took full advantage of the absence of some of the big guns at Queen’s Regatta at Castlewellan today. The women’s Division One eights of the first eFlow Grand League regatta of the season gave Galway Rowing…
