The Irish Cruiser Racer Association's (ICRA) new committee for 2023 was elected at Saturday's national conference agm in Dun Laoghaire.
Commodore Dave Cullen announced to the hybrid meeting – online and in attendance at the Royal St George Yacht Club – that there were two new Dublin additions for the coming season.
Howth skipper Mike Evans, the current ICRA boat of the year skipper, joins as a committee member with Dun Laoghaire sailor Alice Shanahan of the National Yacht Club.
The balance of the 12-person committee under Cullen, who starts his second year in office, is Secretary Denis Byrne, Treasurer, John Leech Treasurer, Technical Delegate Ric Morris, Brian Raftery, ISORA Rep Peter Ryan, IRC Liaison Mark Mills, Liam Lynch, SCORA Rep Daragh Connelly and Youth Pathways liaison Saoirse Reynolds.
In a packed morning conference schedule, the Commodore welcomed representatives from June's Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race and Sovereign's Cup at Kinsale, July's Dun Laoghaire Regatta, ISORA, SCORA and WIORA, along with Howth's staging of the ICRA Nationals in September. As Afloat reported earlier, each gave updates on their regatta and race plans this summer.
The 2023 meeting marked the 20th edition of the conference. As regular Afloat readers will know, an exploratory ICRA meeting between Denis Kiely, Jim Donegan and Fintan Cairns in the Granville Hotel was held in Waterford in 2022, and the first conference was held in February 2003 in Kilkenny.
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