Canoeing Ireland News

Another Exciting week for Canoeing Ireland

On the home front the Junior Liffey last Saturday had all the right ingredients, Sunshine, good water and lot of thrills and spills it was a great success with 130 junior paddlers taking on the might of the Liffey , for many this was their first Junior Liffey. A big thank you to all the Rescue Crews on the weirs without whom the race would not happen.

On the International front our Parcanoeist Pat O Leary placed 4^th at the world cup sprint regatta in Duisburg Germany.

Oisín Ó Fearghaíl from Kilcullen canoe club placed 2^nd in Div. 1 Slalom in Nottingham.

Watch out for Hannah Craig who is racing this weekend in the slalom European Championships in Germany. Live Results here.

The Sprint action moves to Denmark for World Cup 3 where Barry Watkins and Michael Fitzsimon compete in K2 1000m and Andrzej Jeziersk competes in C1 200M www.canoeworldcup2015.dk or watch it live here

Level 5 Skills Training & Assessment in Italy

Canoeing Ireland is happy to announce seven new Level 5 Skills Trainees and eight new Level 5 Skills Paddlers following a very busy week of training and assessments in Italy in May 2015. With a dreadful forecast predicting 180mm of rain over 4 days it was looking like the courses and assessments would have to leave Italy and move to France or Switzerland, but for once the river Gods were on our side and forecast dramatically improved giving a very Irish Climate in Italy of showers and sunny spells with ideal water levels.

Congratulations to Mateja Trpin, Dervla McAuley, Kevin Foynes, Leo Riedmuller, Patrick Finn, Barry Loughnane and David Higgins who all completed their Level 5 Skills Training in ideal water conditions on the emerald green waters of the Sermenza and the crystal blue waters of the Egua river in Val Sesia.

Congratulations to Dave Holden, Dave Horkan, Derek Murphy, Simon Cadec, Laura Griffin, Susan Doyle, Frank Carr and Ultan O’Kane who all successfully passed their Level 5 Skills Assesments on the challenging waters of the Middle Sermenza, Lower Sermenza and the challenging Sesia Gorge.

We look forward to seeing many of the trainees moving forward to complete the Level 4 Instructor Training Course and the 8 successful assessees applying for Level 4 Instructor Assessment in the coming months.