Cork Sculling Ladder Yields Close Race

7th March 2016

#Rowing: Alan O’Keeffe of Presentation College had less than a length to spare over Conor McCarthy of Cork Boat Club in one of the two Cork Sculling Ladder challenges held at the weekend. Kieran White of Cork beat Jack O’Donovan in the other race. The Ladder continues until Sunday, March 28^th

Cork Sculling Ladder Challenges, Saturday, March 5th.

Race 1. (29) Alan O’Keeffe, Presentation College Rowing Club bt (31) Conor McCarthy, Cork Boat Club 4 feet.

Race 2. (46) Patrick Kennelly, Presentation College Rowing Club r/o. (50) Conor Twohig - Cork Boat Club. Did not race. Ill.

Race 3. (77) Kieran White, Cork Boat Club bt (60) Jack O’Donovan, Presentation College Rowing Club 5 lengths.

Challenges :

Sunday, March 13th

09.00am. (41) Cian O’Sullivan - Cork Boat Club v (33) Eoin Gaffney - Shandon Boat Club.

Date and times to be arranged for the following :

(8) Barry O’Flynn - Cork Boat Club v (6) Sean Lonergan - Shandon Boat Club.

(12) Liam O’Connell - Cork Boat Club v (10) Cathal Merz - Shandon Boat Club.

(13) Barry Connolly - Cork Boat Club v (11) Thomas Murphy - Lee Rowing Club.

(21) Cormac Corkery - Cork Boat Club v (18) Hugh Sutton - Lee Rowing Club.

(23) Evan Curtin - Cork Boat Club v (22) Luke Guerin - Lee Rowing Club.

(59) Ross Cudmore - Cork Boat Club v (57) Noel Carey - Shandon Boat Club.

(88) Conor O’Callaghan - Cork Boat Club v (81) Jack Aherne - Cork Boat Club.

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Liam Gorman is a writer and reporter. He is the co-author of Little Lady, One Man, Big Ocean, published in the United States and Canada as Crossing the Swell. He is the rowing correspondent of the Irish Times.

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