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Is this incredible 100-year-old photo the first of a female sea kayaker in Ireland?

This wonderful photograph taken in 1923 shows Bunbeg woman Madgie Keown in a sea kayak off the coast of Donegal. It would appear to be the earliest photographic record of a female kayaking in Donegal, and possibly on the island of Ireland. Her ...

20 Mar 2022 at 12:47

Sport

Limerick kayaker Robbie Geary to take part in World Championships

LIMERICK kayaker Robbie Geary has been selected to represent Ireland in the prestigious ICF Canoe Freestyle World Championships in the USA later this event. The ICF Canoe Freestyle World Championships take place in Columbus, Georgia this ...

13 May 2023 at 17:30

National News

Irish student dies after kayaking accident in US

An Irish student has died following a kayaking accident in Washington while on a university outing there. Dublin student Ella Mills was on the Potomac River in Maryland while on a trip with the Columbia University Whitewater Kayaking ...

19 Sept 2023 at 09:46

National News

Irish student dies in kayaking accident in the US

An Irish student has died in a kayaking accident in Washington. English studies student Ella Mills was studying at Columbia University in the US as part of a dual BA programme with Trinity College Dublin. President of Columbia ...

19 Sept 2023 at 10:45

National News

Two women describe 'surreal' experience off Irish coast as basking shark swims under kayak

Two kayakers had a “surreal” encounter with a basking shark off the coast of west Cork in Ireland, with the sharks swimming right under their kayaks. Louise Barker, 33, captured the encounter on video, which she shared to ...

25 May 2023 at 10:40

Local News

University of Limerick student passes away following kayaking incident

A 20-YEAR-OLD University of Limerick student has passed away this Monday afternoon following an incident while on a trip with the university's kayaking club in Co Kerry this weekend. The young woman understood to be from ...

04 Nov 2019 at 17:43

Northern Ireland

Kayaker ‘determined’ to break record by paddling around British coast

A kayaker has said he is “determined” as he hopes to break a Guinness World Record by paddling 2,000 miles around Britain in less than 40 days in memory of his late mother. Mike Lambert, 32, told the PA news agency that ...

29 May 2024 at 08:32

Local News

Get your paddles ready! Ninth annual charity kayak event returns to Limerick city

A CHARITY kayaking event is taking place in Limerick next month in aid of Rape Crisis Mid-West. This is the ninth year of the annual charity paddle, which raises funds and awareness for the organisation that provides ...

22 Jul 2024 at 09:00

What's On

Countdown is on to Limerick kayak race

THE FINAL countdown is on for a 10km kayak race from Annacotty into the city on Saturday, August 20. Following a series of free introductions to kayaking in the city, some 80 to 100 boats are expected to be on the ...

01 Aug 2016 at 11:00

Breaking News

Therapeutic effects of kayaking heralded by group of Limerick women and men

‘BORN again’ is not a phrase you would often associate with women in their 60s, post retirement. But the therapeutic effects of being on the water are being heralded by a group of Limerick women and men, who ...

12 May 2016 at 14:13

Sport

Kayaker Kimberley Woods feeling ‘really good vibes’ as she goes for gold

Team GB kayaker Kimberley Woods has said she is feeling “really good vibes” as she aims for a medal in Paris, while her partner has vowed to “scream the place down” from the sidelines. Woods is competing in ...

28 Jul 2024 at 11:11

Sport

‘Full scale of emotion’ for Kimberley Woods’s partner after her second bronze

Kimberley Woods’s partner has said he felt the “full scale of emotion” as the kayaker won her second bronze medal of the Paris Olympics despite what initially appeared to be a fourth-place finish. A ...

05 Aug 2024 at 17:33

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