Where We Are Today

2013

    • All Ireland’s, Carndonagh August 2013 – Women’s Crew took part in their first competition and came in 4th place. This put the club on the map for the first time in the rowing community.
    • 18k River Barrow Challenge in September. Same women’s crew came in 1st place in their category & won the club’s trophy.

2014 – First Boyne Boat Race took place alongside the Maritime Festival in the summer. Our women’s crew came second with a mixed crew also taking part in a skiff.

2015 – Second Boyne Boat Race took place again alongside the Maritime Festival in the summer. 1 mixed crew took part coming second.

2016 – the club continued their summer trips to Glenarm on the Antrim coast for sprint races during the summer, along with the 18k River Barrow Challenge.

2017

  • In September, a mixed crew took part in the Donegal Bay 10k Challenge, taking 2nd place with a mixed crew on the day.
  • Two weeks later the club took on the 18k River Barrow Challenge, with the Men’s team taking 2nd place with a time of 1hr 23mins and the Mixed team also doing very well.
  • Third Boyne Boat Race took place after a year’s break.

2018

  • Fourth Boyne Boat Race took place. 2 of our women’s crew helped to take 1st place at the Glenarm Sprints in the summer, where a mixed crew also came 2nd.
  • At the Lambay Challenge in September, the men’s crew came 2nd in their category
  • Wexford All Ireland’s, women’s & men’s crew took part in a Currach & all took home a medal.

2019

  • Fifth Boyne Boat Race took place where a mixed crew took second place. 2 novice crews took part in the 18k River Barrow Challenge that year also. The women’s crew took 3rd place that year at the Castle sprints on the Antrim coast, while the novice mixed crew took first place in Glenarm with the men’s crew taking first place.
  • September Lambay Challenge, mixed crew came 1st in their category

2020 – The Covid Year ☹

2021

  • September Lambay Challenge, mixed crew came 2nd in their category
  • October – Round Rockabill, men’s crew took part.

2022

  • Sixth Boyne Boat Race took place after 2 year’s break with the men’s crew winning the inaugural Cassidy Cup and the women placing 2nd in their category.
  • 2 crews took part in the Whitehead Sprints, taking two 2nd places and one 3rd place.
  • In September the men’s crew won the Islandmagee Challenge, beating off strong competition.

2023

  • Seventh Boyne Boat Race took place on April 30th.

2024

  • Eight Boyne Boat Race took place on May 5th – 3 crews (2 mixed, 1 womens) – one mixed crew won back The Cassidy Cup.
  • The club attended Round the Rock in Glenarm with the  men’s crew taking 4th place in the open men’s and 5th place in the overall men’s and the ladies taking 1st place in the open women’s and 2nd place in the overall women’s.
  • At the Whitehead Regatta our veteran ladies took home gold in their category.
  • The club attended the All Irelands in Dingle for the first time since pre-Covid.
  • The club entered some crews into Round Rockabill hosted by Skerries Rowing  Club, and won the overall One Design category.
  • Our men’s crew took home the Spirit of Fingal award at the Lambay Challenge.

2025

  • The club took home 1st & 2nd place in the Open Women’s One Design category and 2nd & 3rd place in the Open Men’s One Design category at the Strangford Coastal Rowing Spring Series.
  • Ninth Boyne Boat Race took place on May 4th – 3 mixed crews competed from the club and one mixed crew won back The Cassidy Cup again.
  • Our ladies team came first in their category, with our mixed team taking second in theirs at the Cushendun Regatta.
  • We took home bronze in both the Veteran Ladies & Open Ladies along with silver in the Veteran Mixed at Castle Rowing Club’s Regatta.
  • We took home the Silver in both the Veteran Ladies and Open Ladies, along with the Gold in the Veteran Mixed, Silver in the Novice Mixed and Bronze in the Masters Mixed at Whitehead Coastal Rowing Club’s Regatta.
  • An historic day in Glenarm, Co. Antrim, at the All Ireland Coastal Rowing Championships in August where the Inver Colpa Novice Ladies took home the first ever medal for the club winning  Gold in their race.