News on Irish Rowing, Angling, Waterskiing, Canoeing, Diving and Sea Swimming
# ROWING: Niall Kenny was the fastest man on the water at the Rowing Ireland National Assessments in Newry today. The 23 year old lightweight clocked 19 minutes 15 seconds for the five kilometres in the incessant rain. It was…
# ROWING: Adam Boreham of Belfast Boat Club, a heavyweight under-23 athlete, topped the rankings in ergometer (rowing machine) times on the first day of the Rowing Ireland Assessment in Newry today. Justin Ryan of Skibbereen was the fastest lightweight,…
Espersen Takes Charge of First Rowing Trial as Ireland High Performance Director
8th February 2013 Rowing
# ROWING: One hundred and twenty rowers are listed to compete at the Rowing Ireland Assessment in Newry tomorrow and Sunday. The ergometer test will be on Saturday and the on-the-water time trial is set for 11 o’clock on Newry…
A survey carried out by Tourism Development International (TDI) on behalf of Inland Fisheries indicate that there are 250,000 anglers in Ireland. This includes men / women over the age of 15 who fish on a regular basis, in other…
#FishFarm - Inland Fisheries Ireland has welcomed "a clear acceptance of the impact of sea lice on juvenile salmon" following a recent Marine Institute publication that identifies the effect of sea lice emanating from aquaculture facilities on wild Atlantic salmon…
#Angling - Bring the children and learn all about fishing at the Ireland Angling Show 2013 on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 February at the National Show Centre in Swords, Co Dublin. Fishing is a fantastic way to spend time with…
#surf – Here's spectacular footage of those enormous waves surfed in Nazare, Portugal by Irish American surfer Garrett McNamara. Check out the slow motion wipe out at 1:58 on the timeline. Awesome! The video is produced by Othmane Choufani, Jérôme…
#Diving - The Daily Inquirer in the Philippines turns the spotlight on Irish diver David Joyce, who together with British business partner Matt Reed runs the Evolution diving school in northern Cebu which specialises in technical dives such as wreck…
# ROWING: The St Michael’s Head of the River, scheduled for tomorrow at O’Brien’s Bridge, has had to be cancelled. Water levels were considered too high to be safe for rowers and the ESB could not lower them due to…
#FishFarm - RTÉ Radio 1's Morning Ireland reports on last night's public meeting in Galway on the proposed deep sea fish farm in Galway Bay. As previously reported on Afloat.ie, the 500-hectare organic salmon farm proposed by Bord Iascaigh Mhara…
#Surfing - Check out this stunning video of Portuguese surf pro Nic Von Rupp who cancelled his winter trip to Hawaii last week to take on what Surfer magazine calls 'Ireland's Emerald Slabs'. Towing out to the storm-fuelled swells of…
#redbullstormchasers – 70+ knots of wind, angry, 20-ft waves, 10 sailors: Man vs. Man vs. Nature. It's all here in this highlight clip of this week's action that hit the headlines.
#Fishing - One of Ireland’s most eminent fisheries experts and a recent CEO of the Shannon Regional Fisheries Board has been elected chairman of the Institute of Fisheries Management. Eamon Cusack will assume the chair at the UK-based international body that…
#Surfing - Garrett McNamara has done it again - after riding what is claimed to be the largest wave ever surfed. Last summer on Afloat.ie we reported that the Irish-American surfing pro had his previous world record attempt - a…
#Surfing - Some of the world's top big wave surfing talent enjoyed the 'day that almost never was' at Mullaghmore in Sligo on Sunday. As the video above shows, competitors in the long-delayed Billabong Tow-In Session finally got a chance…
#fishing – The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney today chaired the first meeting of Ireland's Presidency of the Agri/Fish Council. The Irish Presidency's overarching goal for the new CFP is for a sustainable, profitable and self…
