Canoeing Ireland Attend ICF Congress The Congress of the International Canoe Federation was held in Rome over three days from the 4th- 6th of November. Canoeing Ireland was represented at the meeting by CEO, Moira Aston, Events and Development Manager, Ciaran Maguire, and recently elected President, Lynda Byron. Attending congress was of tremendous value to [...]
Notice is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of the Canoe Ireland Sprint Committee will be held at 14:00 on Saturday 4th December 2021 in person. The venue will be confirmed prior to the meeting. Should COVID restrictions change the meeting will be held online and a Zoom link sent to those registered. People registered [...]
Canoeing Ireland are excited to announce that applications are now open for the next two-year cycle of Bridge the Gap Ambassadors! Applications are open to all women in the paddling community, whether you are a beginner, paddling your whole life, or have stopped paddling and are involved in another way! Ambassadors will take part in [...]
The Irish Wild Water AGM will take place on Monday 15th Nov. at 20:00. To offer maximum flexibility, it will be an online meeting. Anyone wishing to attend must be members of Canoeing Ireland and register their interest by emailing the Chair at sean.ringwood@gmail.com upon which they will be sent a link to the meeting. [...]
The Canoeing Ireland Annual Report has been launched following the AGM on Monday 18th October. It is an honest, detailed and comprehensive assessment of progress made, goals achieved and areas for continued development. The report includes an important thanks to our members for their co-operation and support in what was an uncertain year for [...]
Canoeing Ireland is pleased to launch our new membership and events platform designed specifically for the paddlesport community. The new platform is designed with the latest functionality to meet the needs of members, officials, event organisers and instructors on a mobile friendly site. The system is powered by industry leaders, Eventmaster. A range of additional [...]
Canoeing Ireland’s 60th AGM was successfully hosted on Zoom on 18th October. The meeting was well attended by delegates from 22 clubs. The outgoing President (Brian Ogilvie) chaired the meeting and presented a very comprehensive board report which was approved by the delegates in attendance. The outgoing Treasurer (Aisling Conlan) presented the audited financial [...]
After the recent release of the updated Paddle Skills Awards website page we are continuing to develop the Training and Qualifications section of the website. In line with this we have completed an update of the Instructor Awards page. The revamped Instructor Awards section has new pages dedicated to each award across all levels [...]
Canoeing Ireland have been developing a new coaching pathway and associated awards with an objective to cater for all competitive disciplines. While all paddlesports disciplines are unique with specific needs there is commonality and opportunities to grow and learn as a coaching community, together. A lot of the work done so far by Canoeing [...]
Freestyle Kayaking in Ireland has had two new pages added to its history books with both the first medals ever being won in the discipline, and Ireland’s first ever European Champion being crowned. At the recent Championships, held on the 2024 Olympic course in Vaires-sur-Marne, near Paris, David McClure became Irelands first ever European [...]
