Author: Lucy Hanrahan

Swift Irish Coastal Championships

The 2023 Swift Irish Coastal Championships held by Loughros Point Rowing Club took place this weekend in Narin Beach, Portnoo over Saturday and Sunday. All racing was held over a 4K ocean course with the weather providing a variety of challenging and wet conditions throughout the weekend! Huge well done to all the competitors and to Loughros Point Rowing Club on hosting such a brilliant event.

It was an incredible weekend for Killorglin Rowing Club with wins in the CW4X+, CW2x and CW1x. These wins mean that they hold the title in the CW4x+ for 6 consecutive years, CW2x for 5 consecutive years and the CW1x for 5 consecutive years and they are the first club to achieve this in the history of coastal rowing in Ireland.

Rosscarbery also had great successes this weekend with a win in the Mixed 2x, Mixed J18 4x in a composite with Ring RC and the Women’s 4x, also in a composite with Ring RC! They also had a second place finish in their composite with Wicklow in the CM4X+ behind Cairndhu.

The Mens 1x was also a great battle with Miramon Quiroga from Wicklow RC coming in first place, Mannix from Rosscarbery coming in second place and Domingo from Dublin City Coastal coming in third.

We would like to also say a huge thanks to the event sponsors Swift Racing Ireland and Rowfit on their continued support of the event.

We are now looking forward to seeing more to come in coastal rowing in the next few weeks with the 2023 European Rowing Coastal & Beach Sprint Championships taking place on the 1-3rd of September.

Coupe de la Jeunesse 2023

The Coupe de la Jeunesse took place this weekend in Amsterdam, The Netherlands this weekend also. We had five crews racing this weekend in the JM4x, JW1x, JM4, JW4x and JM2x.

Day one of racing saw us off to a great start as team Ireland finished the day off with two bronze medals in the JM2x and JM4+! It also saw Moya Knowles from Skibbereen finishing in 5th place in the A final, the JW4x coming in 2nd in the B final and the JM4x coming 5th in the B final. It was a great day of racing and had the crews confident going into day 2.

Day two also didn’t disappoint with another two bronze medals in the JM2x and JM4+. Moya Knowles also had a close podium result coming in 4th place in the JW1x A final. The JW4x came first place in the B final and the JM4x came 3rd in their B final also.

Huge well done to all the rowers and their clubs!

Thank you for those who recently attended our Irish Championships this year! We are now looking to gather feedback regarding this event and we hope to use this feedback to continue to evaluate and improve our championships each year.

As you know, we run our Irish Championships with your help, our clubs and our members. We want to thank you all for your time and continued support in running this event and for your time filling in the attached survey.

This survey will close on Wednesday 9th of August at 5pm in order for us to gather all of the responses. We ask all members of Rowing Ireland to fill these out in a respectful manner.

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Clubs and organising Committees are reminded that in line with Rule 2.7 the deadline for submitting dates for the 2024 calendar is Tuesday 1 August.  Most organising Committees responded to the call for applications issued in April (see events listed below) but if you have not yet applied please complete the form below and submit it as soon as possible. To apply, please click HERE

Please note that the calendar is currently undergoing a review and it maybe subject to change.

Heads of the River	Regattas
Shandon Head of the River	Neptune Regatta
Newry Head of the River	Commercial Regatta
St Michaels Head of the River	Skibbereen Grand League Regatta
New Ross Head of the River	Limerick Regatta
Lagan HOR	Schools Regatta (O’Brien’s Bridge)
Cork Head of the River	Portadown Regatta
Erne Head	Bantry Sprint Regatta
Barrow Challenge	Lee Regatta
Tullamore Time Trial	Belfast Sprint Regatta
Dublin Head of the River	Castleconnell Sprint Regatta
St Michaels Head of the River (Jun and Mast)	Trinity Regatta
Bann Head of the River	Dublin Metropolitan Regatta
Coosan Lough Head of River	Drinagh Lake 1k regatta
Castleconnell Head	Carlow Regatta
Lagan Autumn HOR	Galway Regatta
Skibbereen HOR	Athlone Regatta
Erne 4’s HOR	Cork Regatta
Muckross HOR	1k Classic (NRC)
	Shandon Masters Regatta

Rowing Ireland would like to announce Commercial Rowing Club as the overall winners of the Rowing Ireland Grand Leagues this year with a total of 1694 points. A huge congratulations to the the club and everyone involved who worked hard to make this win happen.

It was great to see the determination, teamwork and competition shining throughout all the Grand Leagues this year but it was Commercial’s relentless pursuit of excellence that took the overall win at the end.

To celebrate them on this win, Rowing Ireland with the support of Rowfit, Commercial have been awarded with the prize of two new ergs for their club!

The Rowing Ireland Offices will be closed today Monday the 17th and tomorrow Tuesday the 18th following a very successful Irish Championships.

The dedication, and outstanding performances of all the athletes, and coaches have truly shone throughout the event. We would like to thank our championship committee, Safety committee, volunteers and clubs for all your hard work and support over this weekend.

Normal office operations will resume on Wednesday 19th of July, and we will be back, refreshed, and more motivated than ever for the Home International Event in Lough Rinn on Saturday!