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#CANOEING: Jenny Egan qualified for tomorrow’s A Final of the K1 500 metres at the European Olympic Qualifier in sprint canoeing at Poznan in Poland today. A finish in the top two would send her to London. Egan finished fifth…

#COASTAL ROWING – During the May bank holiday weekend (4th-6th May), 12 men and women of St Michael's Rowing Club, Dun Laoghaire, participated in the biennial rowing race across the Irish Sea known as 'the Celtic Challenge'. It turned out…

#FISHING – Marine minister, Simon Coveney T.D. at today's EU Fisheries Council welcomed the Danish Presidency proposal which allows each Member State to implement its own management arrangement for fish quotas. Ireland had strongly opposed the EU Commission proposal that…

#ANGLING - Two Irish anglers were the top sea trout samplers for the Celtic Sea Trout Project in 2011. Martin McKenny from the River Dee and Brian McShane from the Castletown River, plus several other Irish winners, will be presented…

#ANGLING - The Irish Times' resident angling expert Derek Evans was on hand at the launch of Sea to Stream, a new film documenting the salmon and sea trout season on Lough Currane in Co Kerry. The hour-long DVD follows…

#ROWING: Galway crews won both the men’s Intermediate and Junior 18A eights at the Limerick Regatta. The junior title went to St Joseph’s, while NUIG won the intermediate crown. table.tableizer-table {border: 1px solid #CCC; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;}…

#CANOEING: Eoin Rheinisch qualified for the Olympic Games with a fault-free round in the K1 (racing kayak) at the European Championships in Augsburg in Germany today. The Kildare man, who finished 4th at the Beijing Olympics, took 12th place with…

#ANGLING - A landowner in Co Fermanagh has blocked access to a slipway and moorings used by anglers on his land, as BBC News reports. Fishermen found the road leading to the site blocked by hay bales after the 10-year…

#KITESURFING - Windsurfers have vowed to battle to overturn the decision to cut their sport from the Olympic Games in 2016 in favour of kitesurfing. As the Independent reports, kitesurfing has been given two medal events at the 2016 games…

#SURFING - It's official - an Irish-American surf pro did indeed ride the world's biggest wave, and will have his name in the Guinness Book of Records to prove it. Record-keepers have confirmed that a 78-foot monster wave caught by…

#CANOEING: Hannah Craig is set to represent Ireland at the Olympic Games in London in the K1 racing kayak. The Antrim woman finished 25th at the European Canoe Slalom Championships in Augsburg today, the highest position occupied by a boat…

#ANGLING - 'Gone fishing' is where Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) wants you to be during Fisheries Awareness Week from tomorrow 12 to 20 May. Full details of events taking place country-wide for Fisheries Awareness Week are available on FAW.ie. Most…

#FISHING - The Irish Farmers' Association (IFA) aquaculture executive has criticised the Government's grant aid scheme announced this week, claiming that it rules out the majority of Ireland's fish farming industry from accessing funds. Richie Flynn said that the rules…

#CANOEING: Ireland’s Eoin Rheinisch and Ciaran Heurteau will be in the hunt for an Olympic place in tomorrow’s semi-finals of the K1 canoe slalom at the European Championships in Augsburg in Germany. Rheinisch finished 17th and Heurteau 23rd in the…

#CANOEING - The Irish Times profiles Irish canoeing contender Ciaran Heurteau ahead of the European Championships in Germany this weekend, where he hopes to claim his place at the 2012 Olympics. Born in Paris to a Northern Irish mother, Heurteau…

#SURFING - Surfing is Ireland's new national pastime, if the Irish Independent is anything to go by. The paper's Amanda Phelan travelled to Lahinch - home of 'biggest wave' award hopeful Ollie O'Flaherty - to investigate the boom in surf…