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20th December 2017

Ireland Trial Cancelled

#Rowing: The Irish Trial scheduled for Saturday, December 23rd, has been cancelled. The organisers found they could not access adequate medical cover at the National Rowing Centre on the day and abandoned in the interests of health and saftey.

 

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# ROWING: Padddy Hegarty of Skibbereen and Bridget Jacques of Belfast Boat Club topped the rankings among the junior athletes at the Irish Trials in the National Rowing Centre in Cork. The announcement of results and the squads for the World Junior Championships and Coupe de la Jeunesse was delayed for hours after a computer problem. There were a number of queries of the original selection and changes were made. A decision on Home International squads will be made in the coming weeks.

Time Trial, National Rowing Centre (Selected Results)

Men - Senior/Under-23/Lightweight single sculls and pairs (1900 metres; ranked on per centage of projected world best time for each class). Selected Results.

1 P O’Donovan (lightweight) 6 mins 40.85 (94.8 per cent), 2 G O’Donovan (lwt) 92.7, 3 J Keohane (heavyweight) 6:40.76 (92.4), S O’Driscoll (lwt) 6:52.87 (92.0), 5 F McQuillan-Tolan/S O’Connor (heavyweight pair) 6:25.33 (91.2), 6 D Neale (hwt) 6:46.49 (91.1), 7 L Prendergast (lwt) 7:04.10 (89.6), 8 J Mitchell/M Wray (hwt pair) 6:35.16 (89.0), 9 A Burns (lwt) 7:07.79 (88.8), 10 A Boreham (hwt) 7:04.84 (87.2).

Junior

Men – (chosen for World Championships and Coupe squad):

Single Sculls: 1 P Hegarty (Skibbereen) 6:52.9 (95.26), A Harrington (Shandon) 6:55.9 (94.56), 3 D O’Malley (St Michael’s) 6:57.9 (94.11), 4 J Mitchel (Lee) 7:01.0 (93.42), 5 C Carmody (Shannon) 7:01.7 (93.26), 6 J Casey (Shandon) 7:02.8 (93.0), 7 M Ryan (Skibbereen) 7:06.5 (92.21), 8 R O’Sullivan (Lee) 7:09.5 (91.5), 9 E Stone (Lee) 7:09.5 (91.12), 10 S Murphy (Cork BC) 7:12.2 (91.0), 11 G McKillen (RBAI) 7:12.5 (90.93), 12 W Yeomans (Commercial) 7:15.7 (90.27), 13 D Buckley (Lee) 7:16.8 (90.05).

Pairs: 1 K Fallon, J Smyth (St Joseph’s) 6:44.3 (92.81), 2 D Keohane, B Keohane (Presentation) 92.5, 3 C Hennessy, L Carroll (Shandon) 6:50.3 (91.74), 4 E Murray, K Anderson (Portora) 90.86.

Women - (chosen for World Championships and Coupe squad):

Single Sculls: 1 B Jacques (Belfast BC) 7:43.1 (93.14), 2 H Shinnick (Fermoy) 7:55.4, 3 F Murtagh (Galway RC) 7:55.5 (90.70), 3 B Walsh (Skibbereen) 7:56.1, 4 L Hamel (Cork BC) 7:58.4 (90.15), 5 M McClaughlin (Cork BC; jun 17) 8:02.0 (89.48), 6 P Mulligan (Portora) 8:04.2 (89.07), 7 E Barry (Bann, jun 16) 8:09.4 (88.13), 8 C Beechinor (Cork BC, jun 16) 8:09.6 (88.09), 9 K O’Connor (Muckross, jun 16) 8:17.0 (86.78), 10 E Lambe (Commercial, jun 16) 8:17.2 (86.74), 11 L Kilbane (Cork BC, jun 16) 8:17.3, 12 Z Hyde (Killorglin, jun 16) 8:19.2 (86.39).

Pairs: 1 R Gilligan/L McHugh (Shannon) 7:51.5 (87.85); 2 C Scannell/D Callanan (Shandon) 7:55.9 (87.03)

Group B (Trials for Home International) – Winners: Junior Men - Pairs: R McKenna, A Chadfield (Clonmel) 6:49.9 (91.56). Single: D Synnott (Lee) 7:20.4 (89.3). Junior Women – Pairs: V Sheehan, Z Madden (St Michael’s) 7:40.2 (89.99). Single: C Kelly (Carrick-on-Shannon) 88.68.

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# ROWING: John Keohane was the fastest man at the Ireland Trials at National Rowing Centre in Cork today. However, the Lee Valley heavyweight was just nine hundredths of a second ahead of lightweight sculler Paul O’Donovan in the Time Trial. The 19-year-old from Skibbereen was assessed to have a percentage of world’s best time in his grade of 94.8 per cent – albeit with a strong tail wind. The conditions were forecast to deteriorate as the day went on and on-the-water work was done early in the morning.

Time Trial (Selected Results)

Men - Senior/Under-23/Lightweight single sculls and pairs (1900 metres; ranked on per centage of projected world best time for each class). Selected Results.

1 P O’Donovan (lightweight) 6 mins 40.85 (94.8 per cent), 2 G O’Donovan (lwt) 6:50.10 (92.7), 3 J Keohane (heavyweight) 6:40.76 (92.4), S O’Driscoll (lwt) 6:52.87 (92.0), 5 F McQuillan-Tolan/S O’Connor (heavyweight pair) 6:25.33 (91.2), 6 D Neale (hwt) 6:46.49 (91.1), 7 L Prendergast (lwt) 7:04.10 (89.6), 8 J Mitchell/M Wray (hwt pair) 6:35.16 (89.0), 9 A Burns (lwt) 7:07.79 (88.8), 10 A Boreham (hwt) 7:04.84 (87.2).

 

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Galway Port & Harbour

Galway Bay is a large bay on the west coast of Ireland, between County Galway in the province of Connacht to the north and the Burren in County Clare in the province of Munster to the south. Galway city and port is located on the northeast side of the bay. The bay is about 50 kilometres (31 miles) long and from 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) to 30 kilometres (19 miles) in breadth.

The Aran Islands are to the west across the entrance and there are numerous small islands within the bay.

Galway Port FAQs

Galway was founded in the 13th century by the de Burgo family, and became an important seaport with sailing ships bearing wine imports and exports of fish, hides and wool.

Not as old as previously thought. Galway bay was once a series of lagoons, known as Loch Lurgan, plied by people in log canoes. Ancient tree stumps exposed by storms in 2010 have been dated back about 7,500 years.

It is about 660,000 tonnes as it is a tidal port.

Capt Brian Sheridan, who succeeded his late father, Capt Frank Sheridan

The dock gates open approximately two hours before high water and close at high water subject to ship movements on each tide.

The typical ship sizes are in the region of 4,000 to 6,000 tonnes

Turbines for about 14 wind projects have been imported in recent years, but the tonnage of these cargoes is light. A European industry report calculates that each turbine generates €10 million in locally generated revenue during construction and logistics/transport.

Yes, Iceland has selected Galway as European landing location for international telecommunications cables. Farice, a company wholly owned by the Icelandic Government, currently owns and operates two submarine cables linking Iceland to Northern Europe.

It is "very much a live project", Harbourmaster Capt Sheridan says, and the Port of Galway board is "awaiting the outcome of a Bord Pleanála determination", he says.

90% of the scrap steel is exported to Spain with the balance being shipped to Portugal. Since the pandemic, scrap steel is shipped to the Liverpool where it is either transhipped to larger ships bound for China.

It might look like silage, but in fact, its bales domestic and municipal waste, exported to Denmark where the waste is incinerated, and the heat is used in district heating of homes and schools. It is called RDF or Refuse Derived Fuel and has been exported out of Galway since 2013.

The new ferry is arriving at Galway Bay onboard the cargo ship SVENJA. The vessel is currently on passage to Belem, Brazil before making her way across the Atlantic to Galway.

Two Volvo round world races have selected Galway for the prestigious yacht race route. Some 10,000 people welcomed the boats in during its first stopover in 2009, when a festival was marked by stunning weather. It was also selected for the race finish in 2012. The Volvo has changed its name and is now known as the "Ocean Race". Capt Sheridan says that once port expansion and the re-urbanisation of the docklands is complete, the port will welcome the "ocean race, Clipper race, Tall Ships race, Small Ships Regatta and maybe the America's Cup right into the city centre...".

The pandemic was the reason why Seafest did not go ahead in Cork in 2020. Galway will welcome Seafest back after it calls to Waterford and Limerick, thus having been to all the Port cities.

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