The Government has agreed that non-contact training can continue for school-aged children, outdoors in pods of 15. This is outside of the existing provision of Level 5. • The concession relates to sports involving the ongoing regular training of groups of young people. • It relates only to non-contact training activities in which you [...]
The end of the typical summer racing season saw what was in fact the beginning of the reduced calendar of racing in Canoe Slalom for 2020. While senior competition had plenty of action planned it was also great to see some Junior and U23 racing able to take place, to keep the future of [...]
Ireland will be moving to Level 5 restrictions for living with COVID-19 as of midnight on Wednesday 21st of October. While this means more stringent restrictions for living with the virus there are several updates to the government guidelines to allow for some sporting activities to continue. These restricts have only come into place due [...]
Check out our interview with Liam Jegou, Jake Cochrane and Robert Hendrick, the C1 Men Slalom team who took home a historic silver medal in the team event at the recent European Championships in Prague, Czech Republic. Great stories from the race and the podium, as well as catching up about the rest of [...]
With the entire country now being placed on Level 3 of the Living with COVID plan, we would like to refresh our members on the associated paddling guidelines. This move to Level 3 will have an impact on the kinds of paddling activity which can be undertaken in a safe manner so we hope our [...]
After the recent slalom action Canoe Sprint, too, made a very welcome return to international competition. With the season kicking off with a World Cup race in Szeged, Hungary, from the 25th-27th of September. Team Ireland had only one competitor attending, Barry Watkins, who was racing the in the K1 500m and 1000m. While [...]
The European Canoe Slalom Championships (18th-20th September) saw a very welcome return to international competition for us and our athletes. Held in Prague, Czech Republic, these Championships were a replacement for the original Euros, scheduled to take place in London in May 2020. A strong team of athletes was in attendance from Ireland, consisting [...]
We at Canoeing Ireland are extremely pleased to release our 2019 Annual Report. This report covers the excellent year of events, competitions, and performance results we have had. From the 60th Anniversary race of the Liffey Descent to qualifying 2 boats for the Tokyo Olympic Games, it has been a fantastic year. From an operational [...]
Ireland is moving form a short term emergency response to COVID-19 to a medium term framework for living with the virus, while returning to economic and social activity. These new measure are designed to minimize the risk to the public from the virusm, while beginning to repair some of the damage done to society. [...]
We are delighted to have been included in the list of recipients of a €7.3 million package of investment for various sport and physical activity programmes across the country. Canoeing Ireland was awarded a total €84,235 to enable us to run programmes to engage with disadvantaged communities and those with disabilities across 4 areas - [...]
