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TRALEE Rowing Club (TRC) welcomed Minister for Education, Norma Foley, to the Tralee Bay Wetlands Centre on Saturday to launch of the Community Foundation Ireland (CFI) funded TRC ‘Biodiversity Awareness Implementation Project’. TRC produced a CFI funded ‘Biodiversity Action Plan – Tralee Ship Canal – Gateway to Biodiversity’ in 2023. […]

TRALEE Rowing Club’s Biodiversity Awareness Implementation Project has just been awarded a grant through the Community Foundation Ireland and National Parks and Wildlife Services. The club will receive €5,500 towards raising awareness of the Tralee Ship Canal and its environs through talks and guided walks with experts. Tralee Rowing Club will […]

TRALEE Rowing Club will hold a special street collection this Saturday aimed at raising funds for the purchase of a much-needed gazebo. The unpredictable Irish weather often poses a challenge for the rowers and their equipment. so to ensure that their dedicated athletes and their gear stays dry during competitions […]

A TRALEE Rowing Club member has been selected for the Rowing Ireland Under 19 team. Following two tough trials in February and April this year and making it through the final 4-day long selection camp last week at the National Rowing Centre in Cork, 17-year-old Sean Morris has secured a […]

TRALEE Rowing Club were well represented at the Provincial Indoor Rowing Championships which took place in the UL Sport Arena on Saturday. There were no boats, oars or a river, instead more than 60 rowing machines were used with spectators at close quarters and intense competition ensued. Tralee Rowing Club had […]

By Jane Boyle, Tralee Rowing Club PRO Last weekend TRC enjoyed a successful trip to National Championships, we were thrilled with the results and the increasing depth in our squad. We are very proud of all our participants. We are a small, young club and despite the challenges of recent […]

A SMALLER band of Tralee Rowing Club members than usual travelled to the Dublin Metropolitan Regatta on Blessington Lake in Co. Wicklow last weekend. It is a 2km regatta and part of the Grand League series.  It was a busy day as all crews from the club won places in […]

After a ‘marathon’ wait TRC are delighted to be back on the water again with medal wins at their most recent regatta outing. You may have noticed that Tralee ship canal was drained of water for 5 months while essential works were completed, this gave Tralee Rowing Club the unfortunate […]

TRALEE Rowing Club members were in the medals at the the Irish Indoor Rowing Championships in the Sports Arena at UL on Saturday. Many of the club’s junior and adult rowers attended and won an impressive 7 medals —  two adults and five youths. John Tuite was 1st in the M50-54 1000m; […]

TRALEE Rowing Club took the County Award for Kerry at the National Heritage Awards  2021. The announcement was made by the Heritage Council at its online Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, October 20. The Rowing Club’s winning project featured an online presentation and an outdoor display mounted at the Tralee Ship Canal Marina during Heritage Week in […]

A SPECIES called Australian Tubeworm has been identified in the Tralee Canal thanks to an ecological survey. The survey, which is near completion, was secured by Tralee Rowing Club after applying for funding from the Local Authorities Water Programme (LAWPRO) to perform an ecological investigation of the Tralee Ship Canal. […]

TRALEE Rowing Club won five medals at the Irish Indoor Rowing Championships (IIRC) on Saturday at the Sports Arena in UL, Limerick. The club had a great representation with almost 50 entries to the national championships, with four young athletes and one adult coming back to Tralee with medals. The […]

TRALEE Rowing Club will be having its annual Table Quiz Night on Friday 15th of November, at The Ashe Hotel in Tralee, from 7:30 pm. This is a great opportunity to test your general knowledge about pretty much everything and try to win one of the great prizes of the […]

PIETA House received a cheque for €2,200 last night after the efforts of a local club to beat a world record for the most people dressed up as nuns in the one place. Back on Saturday, June 15, hundreds of people gathered in the Town Park for the Tralee Nun Challenge […]

A VALIANT effort! The weather played ball, but it just wasn’t enough to attract the masses to the Town Park on Saturday for the Tralee Nun Challenge. Organised by Tralee Rowing Club — with part of the proceeds going to Pieta House — the aim was to beat the Guinness […]

THE day has arrived and everyone is encouraged to get down to the Town Park this evening for the Tralee Nun Challenge in the Town Park. The event, organised by the Tralee Rowing Club in conjunction with Pieta House, is looking for at least 1,500 nuns to turn up at […]

WITH less than a week to go, the countdown is truly on for the Tralee Nun Challenge next Saturday in the Town Park. Businesses around town are doing their bit too to encourage people to take part in the event attempting to break the Guinness World Record of the largest gathering […]

THERE were three gold medals for Tralee Rowing Club crews at Castleconnell Sprint Regatta in Co. Limerick last Saturday. The doubles of Alayna Gannon and Sarah Fitzgerald (J18), Paula Moloney and Catriona Donovan (Masters), and James Morris and Jim Breen (Masters) finished in first place in their respective races. Heidi […]

TRALEE Rowing Club has a habit of holding some great fundraisers but they’ll be wearing them when they attempt to break a world record next month. The launch of the Tralee Nun Challenge took place on Thursday at the Rowing Club boathouse by the Marina. The Tralee Nun Challenge will […]

OVER 70 people gathered in The Ashe Hotel on Saturday evening to look back on a very good year for Tralee Rowing Club. The club is growing and Saturday was a chance to have some fun and reflect on the successes as Barbara Damm, PRO, explained. “It was a very […]

TRALEE Rowing Club adult member Paula Moloney won 2nd place in her category at the Irish Indoor Rowing Championship (IIRC) in the UL Sports Arena, Limerick, on Saturday. She won her medal in the 2k race, W40-49 category and also competed in the 1k race with a great result. This […]

TRALEE Rowing Club brought 11 young athletes to the Irish Provinces Indoor Rowing Competition last Saturday, at the UL Sports Arena in Limerick, and came back home with three medals, many personal best performances and happy first-time competitors. Sarah Fitzgerald won two medals in the WJ16 age group, achieving 3rd […]

THERE were over 20 tables taken on Friday night to help out a local sports club which is going from strength to strength. The table quiz at O’Donnells in Mounthawk was in aid of Tralee Rowing Club who put in a new pontoon back in April as Chairperson, Mary Bonner, […]

AFTER the storm has passed on Friday, why not get out of the house and exercise the brain cells with an event that evening. Tralee Rowing Club is inviting everyone to get their teams ready or join a table at the annual Fun Quiz Night on Friday, at O’Donnell’s Bar […]

TRALEE Rowing Club is inviting people to their Open Day for adults on Saturday, September 1, at the Canal in Tralee from 11.30am to 2.30pm. This is a great opportunity to try rowing, meet their coaches and adult rowers. The club will have rowing machines and boats available and no […]

A GROUP of 10 adult rowers from Tralee Rowing Club will take part on the Wild Atlantic Challenge, WAC Kenmare, next Saturday 12th. This is a multi-craft rowing competition in its second year, which attracts rowers, kayakers, canoeists, stand up board paddlers and others to complete in the stunning Kenmare […]

TRALEE Rowing Club has organised a Golf Classic fundraising event this Saturday at Castlegregory Golf Club. Everybody is welcome to participate in this Four Ball Scramble competition, including people new to golf and juniors. Tee Times will be between 8am and 3pm and there will be 1st, 2nd and 3rd […]

TRALEE Rowing Club celebrated their annual social event last Saturday at O’Donnell’s Bar, Mounthawk, with a belated Christmas party for all members and their families. They also had something to celebrate from earlier that day at the Irish Indoor Rowing Championship with Nicolas Larkin winning 1st place at his J15 race. […]

A TRALEE Rowing Club junior member won 1st place for the club at the Muckross Head of the River (HOR) on Saturday, only a week after another junior competitor achieved the same result in an indoor rowing championship. Béla Winde finished in 1st place on the J16 x 1 (scull) […]

  TRALEE Rowing Club junior member Nicolas Larkin won 1st place in the Provinces Irish Indoor Rowing Championship, held in the Sports Arena in UL (University of Limerick) last Saturday. He won the Junior 14 time lapsed race, with an impressive 1,181 metres in 4 minutes among 55 competitors in […]