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4th August 2013

McKillen and Mulligan Ireland's Best on Final Day of Coupe Rowing

#CoupeRowing: Ireland’s Gareth McKillen and Phoebe Mulligan reached A Finals at the Coupe de la Jeunesse, the European junior rowing tournament, at Lucerne in Switzerland today. McKillen, who also reached the A Final on Saturday, finished sixth of 11. Mulligan was also sixth of the 11 scullers who competed. The standard in Lucerne was high and Ireland crews trailed the field in most events.

Coupe de la Jeunesse – Day Three (Irish interest)

Men, Eight – A Final: 7 S Murphy, E Stone, W Yeomans, D Buckley, B Keohane, G McKillen, K Fallon, M Ryan; D Twomey 6:24.59.

Four – B Final: 4 J Smyth, K Fallon, D Keohane, B Keohane 6:44.82

Quadruple Sculls – B Final: 2 Murphy, Stone, R O’Sullivan, Ryan 6:25.88

Double Sculls – B Final: 3 Yeomans, Buckley.

Single Sculls – A Final: 6 McKillen 7:32.44.

Women, Four – A Final: 6 R Gilligan, L McHugh, C Scannell, D Callanan 7:27.01

Quadruple Sculls – A Final: 5 Z Hyde, L Kilbane, E Lambe, K O’Connor 7:21.31.

Double Sculls – B Final: 3 C Beechinor, M McLaughlin 7:46.52.

Single Sculls – A Final: 6 P Mulligan 8:27.97.

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McKillen and Jacques Fastest Single Scullers at Lagan Scullers' Head

# ROWING: The Rowing Ireland talent identification programme run by Nathan Adams in Belfast provided the fastest female and male single scullers at the Lagan Scullers’ Head of the River on Saturday. Up-and-coming talents Gareth McKillen and Bridget Jacques topped the rankings. A Belfast Boat Club/RBAI composite coxed quadruple scull was the fastest crew of the day.

Lagan Sculler’s Head of the River, Belfast, Saturday (Selected Results)

Race One: 1 Bann women’s senior quadruple sculls 12:39.8, 2 Belfast BC women sen quad 12:41.8, 3 RBAI junior single sculls (G McKillen) 13:03.1, 4 BBC/Portora masters double sculls 13:03.8, 5 BBC senior single (Wray) 13:05.9, 6 Lagan sen single (Darby) 13:06.3; 9 Portadown nov single (McKeown) 13:34.1; 15 Bann wom nov coxed quad 14:02.6.

Race Two: BBC/RBAI men sen quad 11:04.5, 2 Lagan Scullers’ men sen quad 11:46.9, 3 Methodist College jun 18A double sculls 12:38.9, 4 Lagan Scullers’ Masters single (Darby) 13:03.7, 5 RBAI jun 16 coxed quad 13:04.7, 6 Coleraine AI double sculls 13:08.1; 8 Portadown inter single (McKeown) 13:30.4; 9 Bann women’s sen double 13:36.0, 15 Bann women’s jun 16 coxed quad 14:16.7.

Race Three: 1 Methodist College jun 18A quad 11:53.8, 2 Coleraine AI jun 18B coxed quad 12:32.8, 3 Methody quad (time only) 12:42.1, 4 BBC/Lagan Scullers’ quad (mixed, time only) 12:54.5, 5 Methody women’s jun 18A quad 13:29.4, 6 Belfast BC women’s sen single (B Jacques) 13:49.6; 8 Bann women’s jun 16 double 14:13.8; 16 BBC women’s nov single (Turner) 14:50.5; 17 Portadown women’s jun 18A quad 14:57.6.

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About Conor O'Brien, Irish Circumnavigator

In 1923-25, Conor O'Brien became the first amateur skipper to circle the world south of the Great Capes. O'Brien's boat Saoirse was reputedly the first small boat (42-foot, 13 metres long) to sail around the world since Joshua Slocum completed his voyage in the 'Spray' during 1895 to 1898. It is a journey that O' Brien documented in his book Across Three Oceans. O'Brien's voyage began and ended at the Port of Foynes, County Limerick, Ireland, where he lived.

Saoirse, under O'Brien's command and with three crew, was the first yacht to circumnavigate the world by way of the three great capes: Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope and Cape Leeuwin; and was the first boat flying the Irish tri-colour to enter many of the world's ports and harbours. He ran down his easting in the Roaring Forties and Furious Fifties between the years 1923 to 1925.

Up until O'Brien's circumnavigation, this route was the preserve of square-rigged grain ships taking part in the grain race from Australia to England via Cape Horn (also known as the clipper route).

At a Glance - Conor O'Brien's Circumnavigation

In June 1923, Limerick man Conor O’Brien set off on his yacht, the Saoirse — named after the then newly created Irish Free State — on the two-year voyage from Dun Laoghaire Harbour that was to make him the first Irish amateur to sail around the world.

June 1923 - Saoirse’s arrival in Madeira after her maiden passage out from Dublin Bay

2nd December 1924 - Saoirse crossed the longitude of Cape Horn

June 20th 1925 - O’Brien’s return to Dun Laoghaire Harbour