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  • News & Notices
    The next event involving club members is the 2nd Newry Assessment for international squad selection on 11th/12th February.    Club members Jack Casey, Andy Harrington, Roisin Merz and Laura Coleman were selected to participate after the 1st Assessment in December.   We wish all three the best of luck and know that if they produce their best at the assessment they will continue to progress.
    Our next fund raising event is our annual Table Quiz which will be held in the Silver Key, Ballinlough on Thursday 23rd February at 8.30pm.   Tables of 4 at €40 per table.   This is an important annual fund raiser for the club and we hope that all adult members and parents of junior members will make every effort to attend and, if possible, bring along some friends to fill a table.   We would be grateful for donations of spot prizes.
    The next full competitive event is the Cork Head of the River on the Marina on the 18th February.    This is our home Head of the River and it should provide an opportunity for all active members to participate.      Crew selections and times will be notified to all in the week before the event.   We would like to see lots of support at the club on the day.
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    St Michael's Head of the River on the 28th January was the first big competitive event of 2012 and what a big event it was.   Over 500 boats took to the water at O'Brien's Bridge - believed to be a record for a one day rowing event in Ireland.   Shandon had a big entry in this massive field from some of our most experienced rowers right through to those who were competiting for the very first time and we had some great results.    We had too many entries to list all the good performances but some highlights are as follows.
    Top of the list must be our Women's Junior 18 squad of Laura, Roisin, Saoirse and Holly.   They won the WJ18 4X event by 7 seconds from a very strong field of 17 crews.   Saoirse and Laura also finished an excellent 2nd in the WJ18 2X from a field of 22 crews with Saoirse finishing 4th in the Women's J18 1X from a field of 24 crews.
    The boys did not let us down either with Andy Harrington finishing 3rd of 25 in the Men's Junior 18 1X.   Colm Hennessy Emmett O'Sullivan and Ronan Byrne finished 4th, 5th and 7th in the MJ15 1X with Colm only 7 seconds behind the winner.    A special mention also for our adult men with Brian O'Flynn finishing 2nd only 3 seconds behind the winner in the Men's Masters 1X - time to start serious training again Brian! - and our Men's Novice 4 finishing a very credible 5th in their first outing as a crew.
    Well done to all our competitors who did the club proud in this prestigous event.
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    The club took delivery of our new Italian built racing boats at St Michael's Head of the river on the 28th January.    The Fillipi Coxless Four and Fillipi Scull are top class racing boats and underline the club's committment to ensuring that our athletes are provided with the best equipment we can afford.    
    Such purchases are made possible by the great committment of all club members to fund raising events such as the recent Rowatalon and coffee morning.    We are lucky to have such committed members in the club and we look forward to your continued support.
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  • News & Notices

    Muckross Head of the River was held on Saturday the 10th December, at the National Rowing Centre.    The club had a big entry with a number of our young athletes having their first competitive row.    Shandon won six pennants reflecting one of our most successful outings for a number of years.  

    Winners were Mens Intermediate 2- (Jack Casey and Andy Harrington) by 3 seconds from Neptune with four UCC intermediate crews also behind them.    MJ16 1X with Jack reversing the Skibb Head result and beating Andy into second place who in turn was nearly one minute ahead of 3rd.   WJ18 4X- (Laura, Roisin, Holly, Saoirse) repeated their Skibb Head win over Muckross and with Laura and Roisin also winning the WJ18 2X.       WJ16 8+ (Katie Nagle, Sophie Healy, Zoe Kampff, Clodagh Scannell, Rebecca O'Sullivan, Lile McCarthy, Leah McCurtain, Daisy Callanan and Meg Holland - cox) in their first outing won by just 2 seconds from Shannon.    WJ14 4X+ beat our B crew.

    Just to emphaise the importance of making every stroke count, as well as winning two events by 3 seconds or less we also had three very near misses.  The WJ14 4X+ lost by just one second to Lee, the WJ18 1X (Saoirse Horgan) lost by two seconds and the MJ14 4X+ by six seconds.
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  • News & Notices
    The 131st Annual General Meeting of the club was held on Thursday 6th October.     Twenty five members attended.    
    The AGM elected the following officers for the new season:

    President:           Tom Rose

    Captain:              David O'Donovan

    Secretary:          Frank Coghlan

    Treasurer:          Brian O'Flynn

    In additon eight committee members were elected as follows:

    John Sheehan, Catriona Dorgan, Siobhan Slattery, Eoin Coffey, Jennifer McCarthy, Catherine Barry, Mark Chu, David Rose.

    The five trustees are also ex-officio members of the commitee and are:

    Tom Rose, Frank Coghlan, George Costello, Mick Looney, John Cashel.
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