Coaching Ireland is currently recruiting Presenters for the Lucozade Sport Education Programme. Click above for further details.

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There has been a great response to the ICU Strategic Development Plan Questionnaire with over 200 responses received within 3 days of posting it on the ICU site on January 30th. The questionnaire will be on the ICU site until the end of February so please take the time to complete the questionaire which is available by clicking here.

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Click for details of Canoe Camping Demonstration provided by Wild Water Kayak Club.

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The Irish Canoe Union is in the process of developing a strategic development plan for the period 2010 - 2013. The purpose of the ICU Strategic Development Plan is to guide the development and management of the Canoe Union over the next four years.

Consultation with all interested stakeholders is an integral part of the strategic planning process. We would therefore greatly appreciate if you could take the time to complete a short questionaire which is available by clicking here.

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The Irish Canoe Union has joined forces with Surfrider Europe to raise awareness, educate and take action for the environment. We need your help for our natiowide water cleanup campaign on March 21st, 2010. Click above for further details, contact the Canoe Union Office or Louise Lawrence on louise@canoe.ie

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Wild Water Kayak Club has advised that a tree has become lodged on the top of the Palmerstown Weir and there is a branch spanning the weir. This makes it extremely dangerous to shoot the weir. It is recommended that the weir should not be shot until the council can remove the tree.

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Click above for details to changes to ICU Membership Fees.

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Click above for details of the Canoe Association of Nth Ireland's Paddlefest to be held over the weekend of the 12/14th March.

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There will be a meeting/presentation to inform all Technical Committees and the ICU Board about the development of the proposed ICU Level 1 Competitive Coach and about the National Coach Development Programme generally. The presentation will be made by Benny Cullen, ICU Development Officer, who has been working with Coaching Ireland on the development of the draft Level 1 Coach Syllabus and Training Course.

The meeting will take place on Thursday, January 21st at 7:00 pm in the ICU Office at Sport HQ. If you are a member of an ICU Technical Committee and would like to attend the presentation please contact Benny Cullen at benny@canoe.ie

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ICU publish terms of referance for Olympic Performance Programme Committee. Click here to download.

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Click here for details for Junior Marathon Racing Training Day to be held on Saturday, November 21st at Salmon Leap Canoe Club.

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Liz Shouldice took 3rd in Womens Kayak Event in Leg 5 of the Hydrotastralia Wild Water World Cup Series. The 7km classic course was perhaps the toughest course in decades as the last 2km comprised a Class 4 gorge with boulders strewn randomly across the river. The paddlers had only 2 days to learn this difficult section and it took a heavy toll on boats and several paddlers withdrew after suffering minor injuries. Liz said "I can't wait to come back and race here again. The hard training has paid off!" The final leg of the series takes place next Sat on Cataract Gorge in Launceston. The World Cup Final Sprint  should provide the Irish with more opportunities for success.  Click here for updates & results.....

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Congratulations to Liz Shouldice from Wild Water Kayak Club who made 5th out of 15 @ World Cup 2 of the Wild Water Racing World Cup Series in Tasmania. Only just 5 seconds off a medal ! Click here for updates & results.....

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Click here for news from the Wild Water Racing Team competing in the World Cups in Tasmania.

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There is a dangerous blockage 5k downstream of Straffan Bridge. In high water it will not be passable and the banks are overgrown making portaging difficult.

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Click here for the results of the final Liffey Series Race of 2009 and click here for final placings for the Junior Liffey Series. Well done to all who took part and many thanks to all those who helped out on the day.

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Click here for article about the upcoming Irish Wild Water Racing Team's trip yo Tasmania to compete in the World Cup Series. Also check www.irishcanoeracing.blogspot.com for regular updates.

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Click here for details of an exciting weekend of canoeing on 24/25th October being organised by Folyle Paddlers in Buncrana, Co. Donegal.

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The Irish Canoe Union is pleased to announce the appointment of Brendan O’Brien from Wild Water Kayak Club as the new ICU Access & Environmental Officer. If you have any issues relating to access or environmental issues that you want to have addressed Brendan can be contacted on access@canoe.ie or environment@canoe.ie

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Click here for results for the Sluice WWR Sprint Race, held last Saturday, October 3rd. Many thanks to all who supported the event.
 
The next WWR event is the Templemills to Salmon Leap Canoe Club Classic Race on Saturday, October 10th. This race is open to both Seniors and Juniors but is not a ranking event for Seniors. Race starts at 11.00am with last entries at 10.30am. We would ask people to enter on-line in advance of the event, preferably before Friday evening. This makes the organisers job much easier on the day. Pre-entries available here

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Click here for details of the Robertstown Marathon on October 11th

The Robertstown Race next Sunday (11 Oct) will include an additional novice class.

The novice course will be run over a 4km course that is approximately half the length of the short course. Like the short course the novice course will be flat with no portages.Where novice classes have been run they have proved to be very successful, and NKC will continue the trend.

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Click here for details of the Wild Water Racing Liffey Series on October 3rd, 10th & 17th. Kick start your winter paddling with the exciting discipline of Wild Water Racing. Click here for your copy of the 2008 / 2009 Wild Water Racing Calendar.

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As part of the Canoe Union's promotion of National Trails Day, the ICU Training Centre have teamed up with Wild Water Kayak Club to run a canoe/kayak tour beginning in the Strawberry Beds and finishing near the Customs House.

See Dublin from a different perspective and join us on the "Odyessy on the Liffey" on October 4th. Pre booking required. Click here for further details and booking form. Also check out the National Trails Day website for events in your area.

September 30th. Only a very limited number of places left for those without boat and equipment

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A successful C boating Introduction Day took place in Wild Water Kayak Club last Saturday. 11 junior paddlers from Wild Water, Celbridge and Tullamore canoe club's participated. It was great to see such interest in C boating from a diversity of clubs and hopefully the ongoing development at junior and senior level will continue. Big thanks to all the experienced paddlers who gave up their morning and of course to WWKC for. the use of the club grounds. Click here for photo

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Click here for details of the Wild Water Kayak Club's annual Junior Kayaking Week on 25/26/27th September.

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Galway Marathon Saturday 19th September. Click above for further details.

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Click here for details of the 2009 Irish Open being held on 12/13th September 2009 in Galway City.

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Click above for details of the K2_10,000 to be held on Sunday, September 13th and the K1_10,000 on Sunday, September 27th. Both events are being hosted by Salmon Leap Canoe Club on Leixlip Lake, Co. Kildare.

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The date for the Inny Slalom has changed. The original date was September 26/27 2009. This has now been moved to the weekend of the 14/15 of November.

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Irish Canoe Polo Committee August Newsletter. Click above for further details.....

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Click here for Lower Liffey Ranking Race Results

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The Great Outdoors and Kerrygold Lower Liffey ranking race ran superbly with record participation of over 200 competitors in 160 canoes and a further 200 to 300 spectators attended the event.

A big thank you to Salmon Leap Canoe club for hosting the start and to the Garda Rowing club for facilitating the finish........

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The 8th European Championships in Canoe Polo will take place in Essen, Germany from the 19th - 23rd August. The talented Irish Senior mens team will begin their matches in a group with Germany, Great Britain, Portugal and Russia. The Irish Team consists of several players who won bronze medals in the under 21 section at the last European Championships in France in 2007. We wish Ireland the very best of luck. For more information click here 

 

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The National K1 and K2 Marathon Racing Championships 2009 will take place Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd August 2009. Location: Salmon Leap Canoe Club. Last Entries 11:15. First Start 12:00 noon. Click above for further details.

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Congratulations to Barry Watkins from Salmon Leap Canoe Club who achieved 3rd in the B Final of the Mens K1 - 1,000m in a time of 3:37:52 at the World Sprint Championships  today. This is Barry's first time to compete in a Senior World Championships and his 3rd place in the B Final places him 12th overall in the Mens K1 - 1,000m. Click here for full results

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Barry Watkins had a magnificent race in the Mens K1 1000mts this morning in Canada. Barry was 3rd in his Semi Final narrowly missing out on a place in the A Final. The B Final is tomorrow Saturday at 2.33 and is being shown live on ICF pod cast. 

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Update from the Irish Canoe Sprint Team at the World Sprint Championships in Dartmounth, Canada. Barry Watkins - 2nd in his 1,000m K1 heat now progresses to Semi Final; Jenny Egan - 6th in her 1000m K1 and 7th in her 500m heat progresses to both Semi Finals; K2 Crew of Barry Watkins & Sean Marchetti have progressed to the 500m Semi Final. Regular press releases about the Championships are available on the ICF Website. Further updates on the Irish Team to follow.
 

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 - Information about the Lower Liffey Marathon on August 16th
 - Race Weir Notes
 - Start / Finish Directions

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An excellent Canoe Slalom Calendar (click above) that includes 6 events at various venues around the country has been put together by Colm Ryan from Wild Water Kayak Club. Clubs and members are especially asked to support these events so that we can get domestic slalom back up and running.

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A general meeting to adopted a new Canoe Slalom Constitution and elected a Canoe Slalom Commitee has been called for Sunday, August 16th at 6:30 in Wild Water Kayak Clubhouse. (after the Lower Liffey Marathon). All paddlers are welcome to attend. Further details are available on www.irishcanoeslalom.com

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The Irish Wild Water Racing Team take to the Liffey waters as part of their preparation for the Wild Water Racing World Cup Series being held in mid October in Tasmania. Keith McGuirk (WWKC), Tadhg MacIntyre (CPCC), who both finished in the top 20 in the European Championships in June (results link: http://www.valtellinariver.it/en/european2009/results), team up with Wesley Bourke and Paul Byrne in the Racing C2 Class.  Kayakers, Liz Shouldice (WWKC), another top 20 finisher in the Europeans, is a likely Ladies K1 competitor and Cillian Duggan (WWKC) will contest the Men's White Water Racing Class. Other Tasmania bound paddlers who are expected to be part of the dash for medals  on the Liffey include established K2 stalwarts Kevin Pierse (WWKC) and Richard and Henry Hendron (both Richmond CC). TNT and KMA are assisting the team with logistics and team gear for the World Cup events.  World Cup Series 2009: http://www.wildwatertasmania.canoe.org.au/ 

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There are 2 major obstructions in the "jungle" section of the Upper Liffey. Anyone intending to run this section in preparation for the Liffey Descent should take care. Click above for further details. A crew will begin working on clearing this section of the river in the next 2 weeks. Anyone available to help should contact Conor Ryan - conor@canoe.ie

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In response to an early posting on the ICU website, a canoe team from Kilcock, Co. Kildare supported by the NEA2 Project in Ireland attended the Atlantic Watersports Games in Portugal. Despite being the only watersport from Ireland represented at this year's Games, the team won gold in the Canoe Polo Event and was 7th overall of the 10 regions / countries represented at the Games.
 

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Click above for detials of DIT Sports Scholarship Postgraduate Fee Wavier for the 2009 – 2010 academic year.The are 15 postgraduate fee waivers availabel for elite student athletes.
 

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Due to a packed Marathon Racing Calendar that planned to have have events on the Liffey on 3 consecutive weekends then followed by the Liffey Descent on September 5th it has been decided to cancel the Upper Liffey Marathon on August 9th in oder to avoid potential problems that might occur about the provision of rescue personnel and ESB releases.

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Click Above for details of Widl Water Kayak Club's 10K Series starting July 30th

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Keep update on the progress of the Junior & Under 23 Slalom Team of Aisling Conlon (JWK1), Ciaran Heurteau (U23MK1) and Eamon Rheinisch (U23MK1) at the European Championships in Liptovsky, Slovakia 23 - 26th July.Competition website &  Live race updates

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Click above for information about the Lower Liffey Marathon on August 16th

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More great news from the Junior Wild Water Racing Championships in Switzerland. Click above for details.

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Congratulations to Jenny Egan from Slalom Leap Canoe Union who achieve an A Final in the 1000m and B Final in the 500m at the European Under 23 Championships in Poland.

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Irish Junior Team clinches 6th place in Wild Water Sprint Team Event in the Junior World Championships. Click above for further details.

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The European Under 23 & Junior Championships kick off today in Poznan, Poland. A strong team consisting of Barry Watkins_MK1 (Salmon Leap), Jenny Egan_WK1 (Salmon Leap), Sean Marchetti/Darragh Fleming_MK2 (Celbridge) and Joe Murphy/Fintan Mitchell_MK2 (Salmon Leap & Celbridge) will after months of training be vying for places in this hotly contested event.

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The Wild Water Racing Junior World Championships Classic race took place yesterday and saw some excellent performances from the Irish Team. In the Mens Kayak Class Salmon Leap Canoe Club paddler Lorcan Feely finished in 16th place and was the quickest of the Irish in a time of 21 min 10 secs just 59 seconds behind the class winner Antoine Sudrie from France. In Mens C1 Wild Water Kayak Club paddler Conor Healy who is attending his first world championships put in an great race to finish in 16th position 2 mins and 25 secs behind race winner Ondrej Rolenc from the Czech Republic.

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Click above for details of Thomastown Ranking Marathon on Sunday, July 26th. Our thanks to Padmore & Barnes for sponsoring the event.

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The Augsburg World Cup sees Eoin Rheinisch back on form with an excellent 6th placing only 4.37 sec off the winning time of 99.81 acheived by Peter Kauzer. Check out results here

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The Irish Junior Wild Water Racing Team head off to World Junior Wild Water Racing Championships in Switzerland. Click above for further details...

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The Irish Institute of Sport is now accepting applications for the High Performance Coach Pursuit of Excellence Programme (PEP). Click above for further details.

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Click above for details of the 180 Kayak Club Marathon on July 12th. Please note start time is 12 noon. The Graighnamanagh Race is a qualifying rough water race for the Liffey Descent in September.

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Applications for the Irish Institute of Sport's “Athlete Support” Programme for this coming academic year are now being accepted. If you are a carded athlete and are hoping to do any form of study in the next year now is the time to apply for support. The Programme Guide and Application Form are available for download on this link on the Institute's website. For any enquiries about the programme contact klynch@instituteofsport.ie. The closing date for applications is Monday July 27th.

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The ICU Marathon Racing Committee is looking for a volunteer to undertake the role of PRO. The position would involve responsibility for forming relationships with local newspapers and other media forms with a view to ensuring races and events are publicised in advance and race results are posted after the events as well as generally preparing and submitting articles to raise awareness of canoeing in general.

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The Irish Team departs this week for the European Wildwater Championships, a very experienced team will take on Europe's best at this fantastic natural river race site. The team consists of Liz Shouldice in Womens K1, Cillian Duggan and Richard Hendron in Mens K1, Tadhg MacIntyre and Keith McGuirk in Mens C1 and Team Manager, Mick Feeney. Check up dates and results here

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Details and on - line registration for the Upper Liffey Ranking Race on June 7th

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Click here to check out Irish athletes performance at the 2009 European Championships this coming weekend.

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The 48th (for year ending December 2008) Annual General Meeting of the Irish Canoe Union will take place on Saturday, May 16th starting at 3:00 pm in Kilcullen Canoe Club, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare. All members are welcome to attend. Click here for all AGM papers & further details.

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The first major event on the 2009 World Canoeing Calendar takes place next week on Noguera Pallaresa in Sort, Spain. The event, the Wild Water Racing Pre World Championships will be the first international test for the 2009 Irish Wild Water Racing Team. The Team consists of Cillian Duggan, Charlie Blount, Keith McGuirk, Liz Shouldice, John Gallagher (picture) and team manager Michael Shouldice. For info on the event see www.kayaksort.cat

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The Irish Freestyle Committee are looking for expression of interest for the position of Team Manager for 2009 World Championships......

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The 2009 Irish Senior & Junior Wild Water Racing Teams announced. Further details......

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The 2009 Canoe Polo Squads & Calendar have been announced......

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The Irish Sports Council announces High Performance Grant Allocation of €250,000 to the Irish Canoe Union.....

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The Irish Sports Council announced today the allocation of €104,000 under the International Carding Scheme to the Irish Canoe Union for high performance athletes from the Olympic disciplines of Canoe Slalom and Canoe Sprint.......

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The Long Distance Swimming Association (Contact: Martin Cullen) is looking for kayakers to provide safety cover for swimmers at a numbe rof its events during the year.....

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Under 18 Trials for Canoe Polo will take place in Kilcock on Saturday, March 28th starting at 10:00 am. Contact the Under 18 Manager, Stella Mongey, at stella.mongey@gmail.com for further details. 

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A number of clubs and interested paddlers have called a general meeting with the aim of electing a Canoe Slalom Commitee. The meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, March 26th in Wild Water Kayak Clubhouse @ 7:30 pm. All paddlers are welcome to attend. Click here for further details

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The draft 2009 Canoe Sprint Selection Policy was adopted at the Canoe Sprint AGM on February 27th.Click here to download copy

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The final draft of the 2009 Canoe Slalom Selection Policy was adopted by the ICU Board at its monthly meeting on 25/02. Click here to download copy

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Liam Emery from Donegal Canoe Club who took seriously ill during last year's Liffey Descent is making a slow and stready recovery. His family has circulated the following open letter thanking all those who help on Descent Day and and during intervening months.

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The Flat Water Racing Committee AGM will take place on Friday, February 27th @ 8:00 pm in The Spa Hotel, Lucan, Co. Dublin

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Congratualtions to Hannah Craig (click photo to enlarge) who make the final at the Australian Open. Check out YouTube for regular updates and here for the final results. Photo courtesy of Sportscene Photography

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The XV Athlantic Games will take place between August 1st and August 7th, 2009 in Oporto, Portugal and will include events in sailing, kayaking, rowing, surfing, and diving. The Irish Canoe Union plans to send a multi discipline kayak team to the Games and is seeking expressions of interest from its members and clubs.

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The 2009 2009 Canoe Slalom Selection Policy was adopted by the ICU Board at its monthly meeting on 25/02. Click here to download copy

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The Beijing Review, published today February 9, 2009, by the Irish Sports Council states that the significant improvements in performances at the Olympic and Paralympic Games represent a tangible return on the increased State investment in high performance sport over recent years. Download - Beijing Review

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The 2009 Kayaking Intervarsities will be held on the River Liffey from 20th to the 22nd of February. This year the event is hosted by UCD Canoe Club in association with the Irish Canoe Union. Please free to come out and support the events and give a hand. Click here for further details.

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Recently announced details of the London 2012 Olympic Solidarity Scholarships

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Article by Coach, Lukas Novosad, about the Junior Wild Water Racing Team this coming season.
 

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