News on Irish Rowing, Angling, Waterskiing, Canoeing, Diving and Sea Swimming
Lee Valley’s John Keohane won the elite rowing single sculls final at Marlow Regatta today. The Cork single sculler, who had earlier won his heat, thus adds this title to a list which includes an Irish national title at intermediate…
The UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has published its annual canoeing and kayaking report for 2010. Among 456 incidents involving canoes or kayaks across the UK, which include nine fatalities, many were due to people underestimating weather and tidal…
Donegal will be represented by five surfers on the Irish team selected for the Eurosurf European Surfing Championships in Bundoran later this year. Donegal Daily reports that Bundoran residents Ronan Oertzen (20), Shauna Ward (24), Darragh McCarter (25) and Richie…
Ireland has a small entry at this year’s Henley Royal Rowing Regatta. On the official list, UCD are entered in the Ladies’ Plate, and have two crews in the Visitors’ Cup, but it is understood just one of these crews,…
Leading Irish canoeist and Kildare native, Jenny Egan has become the first canoeist to be awarded The Irish Times/Irish Sports Council 'Sportswoman of the Month' award for May, following her impressive performance in taking a silver medal in the 5,000m…
Keith Whelan, the Irishman who attempted to row the Indian Ocean, has been rescued at sea after suffering a head injury. Whelan, who called himself the Naked Adventurer, sent out an SOS and was picked up by cargo ship. It…
Trinity won the Division One senior eights and St Michael’s the senior fours and senior pairs at the refixed Metropolitan rowing regatta at Blessington. The programme, run in a very strong tailwind, suffered delays centred around the Grand League time…
The Afloat Rowers of the Month for May, Sanita Puspure and Lisa Dilleen, showed how a new crew can knit together successfully: their first three results as a double scull were third, second and fifth – in the heats, semi-finals and…
The Ireland women’s double scull of Lisa Dilleen and Sanita Puspure are the Afloat Rowers of the Month for May. Despite being a new crew, formed in the weeks running up to the regatta, Dilleen and Puspure performed remarkably well…
As Elaine 'Shooter' Alexander continues her challenge to be the first woman to circumnavigate Ireland solo by kayak, news comes of a documetary on another recent kayak voyage. http://www.afloat.ie/watersport/canoeing/item/15746-shooter-hits-tramore-three-weeks-into-kayak-challenge/ British adventurers Jeff Allen and Harry Whelan recently completed their own…
The first in a new series, The Sea Road, following classic Irish sea kayaking routes in The Irish Times takes Gary Quinn to the Saltee Islands. http://www.afloat.ie/watersport/canoeing/ Setting out from Kilmore Quay in Co Wexford in a group of seven,…
A new guide service is now available for anyone wishing to sample bass and saltwater fly fishing on Ireland's south coast. World Sea Fishing reports on Cork Harbour-based Richie Ryan, a specialist fly fishing guide who pilots the first boat…
Ireland’s new crew of Sanita Puspure and Lisa Dilleen finished fifth in the A Final of the women’s double sculls at the Rowing World Cup in Munich. The race was won impressively by Britain’s Katherine Grainger and Melanie Wilson, with…
Ireland’s lightweight double scull of Siobhan McCrohan and Claire Lambe did not start the B Final at the Rowing World Cup in Munich this morning. The team management said the crew did not compete because of illness. France won the…
Ireland’s adaptive coxed four rowers finished fifth in their A Final in the very last race of the programme on the day at the World Cup in Munich. Britain’s top crew won gold despite catching a crab near the line,…
Two Ireland lightweight double sculls rowers will compete in B Finals at the World Cup in Munich tomorrow. Mark O’Donovan and Niall Kenny were in sixth in their semi-final until the closing stages, when they put in a good finish…
