Thursday, 16th August 2018


sport@eastcorkjournal.ie


. The new season for East Cork Darts Associa- tion is a matter of weeks away with an early Sep- tember start anticipated. The Adult section An- nual General Meeting wil


East Cork Darts Notes East Cork Sailing Notes


East Cork Darts Association


be held on Tuesday 28th August at the Two Mile Inn at 9.00pm. All ex- isting clubs should be in attendance on the night. East Cork Darts Associ- ation will be delighted to


welcome any new clubs or players to the league. Any new clubs that wish to join the league should also attend


eral Meeting and should contact


Moore on 0863761788 for further


the Annual Gen- Secretary Philip information. All


standards catered for in the leagues which are played on Friday nights.


A positive 2017/18 sea- son was completed with Colberts Bar and Hickeys Bar getting the respective divisional team year


of the awards. Can these


teams continue into 2019 winning or will the league have new champions. The high standard of


the leagues was seen with a strong performance from


Youghal Sailing Club PRO report written by Christine Lee


When you think of a


warm summer breeze, you think of flowers and leaves rustling, dogs tails wagging in rhythm and strolls along our beautiful, long beach.


Not us. But this is not Spart-


When we see a warm summer breeze, it’s bat- tlestations to the ready. It’s boats being rigged and it’s engines roaring to life. It’s spinnakers and sheets, pulleys and trailers. It is life.


It is a heart beating


with the waves, mark- er buoys fearing they’ll be hit but never are as our boats bend to our will and curve sharp- ly around them. It is a starting


horn. Loud.


Celtic. The sound of incoming troops. It’s people


shouting “I’ve


acus. This... is Youghal Sailing Club.


On August 12th ,


Sunday morning at 12.25pm the starting horn was blown and started a friendly race amongst youghal sailing club members. Friends became


competitors


and victors took their seat as reigning cham- pions for the week.


As the race took place a few men came by and jumped the jetty, over- come by the excitement of the race and wanting


got this is the bag lads!” in an echo of an ear- lier offer of help. It is sportsmanship and ca- maraderie. The friend- ly training battles of Spartans.


to partake. As the Con- nemara lads


lept and


sailed through the air, the breeze picked up, sending our boats into a frenzy of speed and momentum. It was as if Youghal itself knew it was host to the craic and it sang it’s breeze in windy ceoil.


of the


The ultimate winners friendly were


youghal boys Jack Butt- imer and Ed Coyne. Congratulations to both, and we shall see you next week, when we haul you down from you’re reigning spot in another adrenaline fueled race of will and skill.


If you are like us, and


see more in a warm summer breeze, join the club.


Youghal Sailing


Clubs next meeting is Monday 20th


, 2018. If


you would like to at- tend and join our crew of passionate experienced


sailors, with


old and reliable boats mixed with newbies and their


recently ac-


quired boats, then find us on Facebook and let us know.


We also have our an-


nual Villiarstown run on the weekend of Sat- urday the 25th


, which


involves club members sailing up to Villiar- stown from Youghal, camping and barbecu- ing overnight and rac- ing back the following day, Sunday 25th


of


August. If this interests you, but us up on Face- book.


We would be happy


to welcome you to the helm.


The Irish Coastal


Rowing Champion- ships are just a few days away and final preparations


being made at


are the


spectacular setting of the National Rowing Centre, Cork. This year’s champion- ships, which will be the


inaugural one


run under the aus- pices of Rowing Ire- land, will take place on Saturday 18th Sunday 19th and there


and August promises


to be a spectacular showcase of coastal rowing, with Clubs from all four Provinc- es of Ireland coming to Cork to compete at the highest levels of the sport.


Speaking at the


venue, Eddie Farr, Chair of the Coast- al


Championships


Committee, ex- plained what these championships mean to coastal rowers: “Our coastal


row-


ing community from around our country are warmly looking forward to the inau- gural Irish Coastal Rowing Champion- ships which are be- ing held here at our National


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the East Cork Darts repre- sentative team at Tramore in April losing a tight bat- tle with eventual finalists Laois.


East Cork Darts Associ-


ation also started the East Cork Youth Darts section in 2018 with a very strong league


formed with 26


registered players. It is al- ready anticipated that this


will grow for the coming year with over 30 players expected in the 7 tourna- ment season with 3 events before Christmas and the remaining 4 in the new year


before the summer


break. All standards and ages up to 17 are catered for and will enjoy the com- petitions as well as improve their maths. Any new boys


Rowing Ireland Coastal Rowing prepare for inaugural Irish Coastal Rowing Championships


Centre in Farran. This is an incredibly proud moment in all our rowing lives, to at last get to row at our National and International


row-


ing venue. We must thank Rushbrooke Rowing Club


for


raising the bar and putting in a tremen- dous effort to make this an enjoyable, safe and comfortable occasion for all the families, friends and supporters from the four provinces of our land who will come to witness history be- ing made. With the quality


of facilities


that Rowing Ireland have made available to us at the venue, this should make for a fantastic rowing fi- nale to our season.


The ships will


race in over different


Champion- see clubs thirty cate-


race


gories, ranging from Under 12 to Masters, with race lengths ranging from 800 to 2300 metres. What makes coastal rowing unique in a sporting context is that whole families will compete for their club on the same day, with moth-


Several thousand


rowers and specta- tors are expected to attend the two day Championships. De- tailed


planning has


been undertaken for almost nine months to ensure both row- ers and spectators have an unforgetta- ble weekend. That plan is about to be put


to the test as


host club chairper- son Ted McSweeney explained, “We as the host club have planned every aspect of the running of the 2018 Irish Coastal Rowing Champion- ships at the National Rowing Centre, to make the event of a standard of which rowers and specta- tors will be proud to have been associated with. Rushbrooke Rowing Club will let no stone unturned to achieve that stand- ard.


The Irish Coastal


Rowing Champion- ships will take place on Saturday 18th Sunday 19th


and Au-


gust at the Nation-


al Rowing Centre, Cork.


Further informa-


tion on the champi- onships can be found by contacting the Championship Committee


Secre-


tary as follows: Event Secretary 2


Orla Creedon Address


Summerfield’s , Cobh, Co. Cork. P24


V024


T e le phone 086 - 8103565 Ema il:


rushbrooke2018@ gmail.com W e bsit e :


www.icrc.ie


ers, fathers, brothers and sisters all con- tributing to the suc- cess of their club as they try valiantly to bring home a cov- eted


Rowing Champion- ship medal.


The Champion- Irish Coastal


ships will provide a fantastic boost to the region with the event likely to attract in ex- cess of 2000 compet- itors and 3000 spec- tators to the National Rowing Centre over the two days.


and girls interested in play- ing in East Cork Youth Darts can send messages to the East Cork Youth Darts Facebook page or contact Philip Moore on 0863761788.


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