Sanita Puspure – competing in Olympic qualifiers

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Sanita with her Fillippi single scull kindly provided by Paul Romeril

As many readers may know, since its foundation, a core goal of Old Collegians has been to support the growth of rowing in Ireland in general. Whilst the Club’s main focus has always been the support of UCD Boat Club and UCD oarsmen,we also look to support Irish rowing outside the walls of UCD Boathouse when we can.

In recent years, OC has had a small number of elite women scullers and they were joined some years ago by Sanita Puspure. Sanita was born in, and represented Latvia at Under 23 level but had been living in Ireland for many years, where both of her children were born. Having joined OCBC Continue reading →

Alfie Mulligan, proprietor of Hartigan’s, RIP

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The following obituary written by Kieran Fagan first appeared in the Irish Times on April 21st 2012, and appears on this website with the kind permission of the writer.

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Publican extraordinaire who made Harto’s a home from home

ALFIE MULLIGAN:
THERE ARE Irish pubs and there are Dublin pubs, and there’s Hartigans of Lower Leeson Street. Home from home for thousands of students at University College Dublin, place of celebration, sanctuary and consolation, and purveyor of that very special product, the best pint of Guinness in the very city which gave the world that famous stout.

And behind the bar, Alfie Mulligan, the publican who enjoyed a well-poured pint of Guinness, and who died in his sleep last month aged 90. From farming stock in Co Leitrim Continue reading →

Gannon Cup 1987 revisited

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UCD’s 1987 Gannon Cup had a recent rematch with the ’87 Trinity crew, at Trinity Regatta, when both crews competed in the Arthur Ball.

Below is a photo of the crew taken before the race, and below again, a scan of the crew photo from the 1987 programme.

 

On the day Trinity won the race, with ultimately Commercial winning the highly coveted (?) Arthur Ball Cup. For those interested in watching a video of the race, click here 

Dublin Head of the River 2012

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Lord Mayor Andrew Montague starting the 68th Dublin Head of the River Race, on Saturday 24th March, accompained by Pat McBride and John Walsh.

This year’s Dublin Head was a great success. As well as crews from all our neighouring clubs in Islandbridge, we were delighted to welcome crews coming from  Belfast Boat Cub, Shannon Rowing Club, Queens University, St. Michael’s Rowing Club & University of Limerick. Great also to see Blackrock College entering two junior crews, one of which took a ‘little dip’ down at the island to cool down after the race.

As is customary, the race was started by the Lord Mayor Andrew Montague, with the assistance of Bill Powderly and his team from the Civil Defence. Men’s Senior VIIIs was won by UCDBC, closely followed by St. Michael’s Rowing Club, and then by a Neptune / Carlow RC composite. Women’s Senior VIIIs was won by a St. Michaels / University of Limerick composite, with wins at various other categories for DUBC (winning Men’s Intermediate VIII and Men’s Novice VIII), Commercial Rowing Club (Men’s Junior 8 and Men’s Senior IV), DULBC (Women’s Intermediate VIII) and Shannon Rowing Club (Women’s Novice VIII).

To download a PDF of result & times, click here for results by category, and here for results sorted by time.

To see photographs of the event, click here

 

Thank you! :  Old Collegians would like to thank all the clubs who attended, and everyone who volunteered their time and energy to make make event such a success. Thank you also to the Lord Mayor, and to Bill Powderly and his team from the Civil Defence. We hope to see you all again next year!

Dublin Head of the River Race

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crews gathering before the start of Dublin Head, 2009 (photo: J.McCullough)

The 2012 Dublin Head of the River Race will take place on the 24th of March.

Closing dates for entries is 14th of March.

First raced in 1941, this is the only open competitive rowing race rowed through Dublin City. For more information on the history of the event and the course, click here.

For photographs of the course click here.