UCD Boat Club Celebrates 100 Years

15th November 2017

The UCD Junior Eight, 1947, the champions of Ireland, with Michael Cleary third from left. Junior was an adult grade.

#Rowing: UCD Boat Club celebrates 100 years in existence with a special dinner and awards ceremony this Friday, November 17^th. Over 400 people from all around the world will attend the event at the O’Reilly Hall on the UCD Campus. They will include 50 past captains and nine past presidents of UCD Boat Club, and there will also be Olympians, World Championship medallists and winners at Henley Royal Regatta.

Dr Michael Cleary, who is 91, will travel to the ceremony from the United States with a big family group. The medical doctor joined UCD Boat Club as an undergraduate in 1946 and rowed with it for five years.

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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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