limerick

A bit of a busy weekend but i finally got pictures of me paddling in limerick.The first round of the nationals were run in limerick city which also doubled up as team selections.Thankfully the esb delivered the water they promised and we had a lovely wave.Heres some pics.

me mid spin

1st place finisher Moe Kelleher mid pistol flip

Tom O'Donoghue doing ul proud and blunting his way onto the irish team.

cross bow recovery stroke

Congrats to the new Irish team

JrMen:

Rory,

Corin,

Tim,

Eoin - Alternate
JR Ladies:

Caoimhe,

Emer,

Niamh
C1

Orky,

Niall
Ladies:

Kim,

Siobhain,

Sinead,

Jenny - Alternate
Men:

Moe,

Mark,

Bowsie,

Moogie,

Tom,

Neil - Alternate

Thanks to dave p for the excellent shots more of his photos and some vids are here http://www.irishfreestyle.com/node/4565

Dublin and Kildare

I've actually been very busy paddling for the last while so I haven't had the chance to keep this up to date.last weekend I travelled up to Dublin for the 2009 kayak intervarsities.I competed in polo in kilcock in Kildare on firday night where my team got knocked out in the quarter finals.Then on saturday morning I joined the hungover masses to compete in long distance with my oc2 partner tyrone who enjoyed the 4km paddle even though it was his first time in a canadian then we switched locations and travelled to castletown rapids for the downriver and where i once agian donned my pedo pants and hopped in the canadian with tyrone.

During the 1hour 45 minute wait to get on the water we enjoyed the company of many of our ul clubmates who chose to enjoy themselves by purchasing a slab of gallahad and enjoying the fine sight of downriver racing ie kev egans swim.When we finally got on the water we sprinted down the river through castletown rapids and were greeted at the finish line by the site of a capsized canoe and John Brady blaming kav for his sudden wet exit.Sunday morning we headed to lucan to hang out with the infamous sluice rats,compete in slalom and watch conor bring home 3rd in the freestyle sport class.Slalom was the highlight of the weekend for me.So much fun look out for slalom gates in ul in the future.

Overall ul placed 3rd.I had a good weekend.ucd put on a good show.

The End.

Thanks to ulac for the lend of the canadian and caitriona for the pictures.

Bring on Galway 2010