End of Season BBQ a Great Success!

Killorglin Rowing Club finished off a great 2008 season with a fantastic BBQ at the clubhouse. Joe was kept busy ensuring all the rowers were well fed!

Joe feeding the hoards !

There was a great turn out on the evening, and we were lucky that the rain held off for most of the evening.

Killorglin Rowers 2008 enjoying the BBQ

Mick Fleming rounded off a great evening with a lovely speech, reviewing the year’s events and thanked everyone for their contributions throughout the year.

Mick during his end of season speech

Now it’s back to training in preparation for next year!

Killorglin All Ireland Coastal Rowing Champions 2008

More great results for Killorglin Rowing club at the All Ireland Coastal Championships 2008 which were held in Larne over the weekend. The girls U12 crew of Caoimhe Purcell, Maire Twiss, Cassie OGrady and Tara Lynch, coxed by Deirde won gold and were soon followed by golds for the U14 girls (Kelly, Meabh, Maeve, Caoimhe and Deirdre (cox)) and the minor mens crew of Cathal Clifford, Cian Clifford, David Collins and Fionan Crowley.

Here are some pics (thanks to Denise and Mary for sending them onto me )

Girls U12 Crew being presented with their medals

Girls U14 Crew being presented with their medals

Boys U18 Crew being presented with their medals

The intermediate mens crew won silver and the under 21 mens crew of Jerome Twiss, Lorca Maher, Owen O’Mahony and Sean Dinum won bronze.

Intermediate Mens Crew

U21 Men

More pictures available here

If anyone has details of the other crews please leave a comment and let me know and I’ll update this post.

Well done to everyone who participated!

The Kingdom profiles Killorglin Rowing Club and Monika

There’s a great article in the Kingdom newspaper on Monika and on the rowing club. Checkout our scrapbook for more details!