Kerry Head of River 2010 photos

Thanks to Johanna King for passing her photo’s on to me. Here they are, enjoy…

Kerry Head of River 2010 Results

The Kerry Head of River 2010 took place in Killorglin this morning. A foggy frosty start greeted rowers as they headed down to the start line for the 2km row.

Here are the results : Kerry_HOR_2010Results.

I was on timing detail so don’t have any photographs. If you have some let me know and I’ll put them on the blog.

Thanks to everybody who participated and helped out.

Kerry Head of River Regatta 23rd January 2010

Killorglin Rowing Club will be hosting the Kerry Head of River Regatta on Saturday 23rd January 2010. The regatta will run from 9am to 11:30am to coincide with the tides.

Hopefully we’ll have a bit of a thaw by then, so looking forward to seeing you all there!

Kerry’s Eye article in our scrapbook

I’ve updated our scrap book with an article on Monika from the Kerry’s Eye. (managed to get in there amongst all the GAA “news”), check it out in our scrap book

Monika on RTE 2 on Thursday 29th October

Make sure you tune into RTE2 on Thursday 29th at 6pm as Killorglin’s World Coastal Rowing Champion Monika Dukarska is on “Two Tube”.

In case you missed it, I’ve managed to upload a version onto our youtube account (volume goes after 1min though, the video is on “Two Tube” for a while.)

 

 

Monika wins GOLD at World Coastal Rowing Championships 2009

Monika Dukarska of Killorglin Rowing Club conquered the seas of Plymouth to become single sculls world coastal champion 2009. Monika fought off the challenges of 11 other rowers from Italy, UK, France, Ireland and Cyprus to come home in first place.

Well done to Monika on a fantastic achievement

 

 

 

Here’s a close up of Monika’s gold medal.

Good luck to Monika in the World Coastal Rowing Championships

Monika is competing in the single sculls at the World Coastal Rowing Championships on Sat 24th October. They are being held in Plymouth, UK. For more info check out: http://www.worldoffshorerowingchampionships2009.com/. The race is over 8kms in open sea and capsizing is not unheard off, so is not for the faint hearted!

A quad in action from 2008 championships

Good luck Monika

Photos from Waterville and All Ireland Coastal Finals uploaded

I’ve uploaded photos from Waterville Regatta and the finals of the All Ireland Coastal Regatta.
Scrapbook has also been updated with articles on the All Ireland and Waterville regattas.
Enjoy!

Photos of All Ireland Coastal Crews 2009

(click on link title above for full report). A big welcome back to our Killorglin Rowers who did fantastically well at the All Ireland Coastal Championships 2009 in Waterville. Here are photos from the weekend.

There were 2 straight finals and we qualified for an additional 15. All being coxed by Deirdre (well done

In summary we won 8 All Ireland titles, two silvers and a bronze.

There were 2 straight finals and we qualified for an additional 15. All being coxed by Deirdre (well done

In summary we won 8 All Ireland titles, two silvers and a bronze.

Here are the winning crews:

U12 Girls Champions, Kerri, Michelle, Eimear, Tara and Deirdre

U14 Girls Champions, Maeve, Meabh, Aoife, Caoimhe and Deirdre
U18 Boys  All Ireland Champions 2009: Pieter, Cian, James, Seanie and Deirdre

Intermediate Men All Ireland Champions 2009: Seanie, Cian, Cathal, Pieter and Deirdre

U21Men All Ireland Champions 2009: Seanie, Cian, Cathal, Fionan and Deirdre

All Ireland Champions 2009: Cliodha  Monika, Maeve, Meabh, and Deirdre

Senior Ladies All Ireland Champions 2009: Veronica, Edel, Maeve, Monika and Deirdre

Senior Mixed All Ireland Champions 2009: Fionan,  Edel, Martin, Monika and Deirdre

Senior Men All Ireland Silver Medalists 2009: Martin, Maurice,  Paul, Fionan and Deirdre

Intermediate Ladies All Ireland Silver Medalists 2009: Niamh, Margueriete, Sarah, Anna and Deirdre

U12 Boys All Ireland Bronze Medalists 2009: Robert, Mark,  John Francis, Darragh and Deirdre

Award for the closest finish of the day has to go to the Senior Mixed! Here are the pics of the last few moments of the race against Fossa and the aftermath of the results! Here are some pics from the closing moments of the race…

Well done and thanks to everyone who participated both on and off the water.

Watch out for Whitegate 2010!

All Ireland Coastal Regatta 2009

Welcome from the first day’s racing at the All Ireland Coastal Regatta 2009 hosted by Waterville Rowing Club. Killorglin Rowing club had an excellent day racing in the heats with one final being contested. Here’s a summary of the results from the first day and here are some photos

U21 ladies final won by Killorglin.

We qualified for the finals of the u12 girls, vet ladies, u12 mixed, senior mixed, u14 girls, u16 boys, u16 ladies, pre vet ladies, u18 ladies, u18 boys and the intermediate ladies. I had to leave the regatta after this so not sure how the last few heats went.