What a performance! The Special Olympics Kayaking Team competed in the Special Olympics World Games in Berlin on the 20th- 24th June. The team of six athletes did exceptionally well bringing home 11 medals across the 200m and 500m categories! 2 gold medals, 2 silver [...]
Sign up for Canoeing Ireland's first nationwide series of "For The Love of It" Summer Camps. “For The Love of It” (FLOIT) is a multi-disciplinary Paddlesports foundation pathway programme that aims to inspire quality life-long participation through age/point of development appropriate, fun, diverse and creative experiences. Canoeing Ireland is excited to partner with multiple [...]
Sport Ireland and Sporting Pride are pleased to launch the #letsgetvisible campaign again for 2023. The campaign aims to recognise and acknowledge the importance of visibility and representation amongst the LGBTQI+ community, specifically in the sport sector The campaign will run from Monday 19th June to Sunday 25th June and aims to recognise and it [...]
Canoeing Ireland are currently undertaking a piece of research into safety culture in Irish paddlesports in partnership with MTU and funded by Sport Ireland. Part of this research is to investigate the safety perceptions of the paddling community. We ask that you complete the survey below in as much detail as possible. This survey [...]
Ahead of the 2023 Special Olympics World Games in Berlin (17th June – 25th June), we are excited to announce a team of incredibly dedicated athletes. With each athlete coming to the team form their own brilliant journey, we are looking forward and proudly watching as they represent Ireland. Bridget Walsh began her involvement with the Special Olympics [...]
Canoeing Ireland and the National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) are very pleased to announce a new joint collaborative initiative with the inclusion of kayaking as a rehabilitation exercise in the new state-of-the-art aquatic physiotherapy pool at the NRH. Having put a particular emphasis on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the past number of years, Canoeing [...]
Canoeing Ireland are excited to facilitate a range of ‘Rescue & Roll Clinics’ to support CI members who are working on their Level 3 River Rescue Skills. Clinics will focus on important core skills that are often a barrier to going forward for Level 3 assessment. Each clinic will focus on a range of [...]
Teen Connect is now part of the Sport Ireland Her Moves programme. Teen Connect has for the last 2 years been creating a community of young girls in paddlesports to allow them to grow in sport, on and off the water. Started as part of the Bridge the Gap initiative, Teen Connect is continuing [...]
Paddle Able is a Canoeing Ireland initiative which aims to promote the inclusion of people with additional support needs whether through disability, impairment, medical condition or neurodiversity. Paddle Able includes many different programmes and projects all of which aim to promote the quality of experiences, opportunities and accessibility of paddlesports for everybody. Over the [...]
Canoeing Ireland were delighted to be part of the Pride Paddle, which took place on Saturday 3rd June. As part of our focus on inclusion and diversity we were proud to support getting members of the LGBTQIA+ community out on the water and becoming a part of the paddlesports community. The Inaugural Pride Paddle was [...]
