Congratulations to club man Paul Thornton now coaching in UCC and National Coach. His Lightweight 4X crew won Bronze Medal at World U23 Championship to add to his numerous Irish Titles during in very short time in UCC. While in GRC Paul worked under Tom Sullivan.

Details of Irish team competing at World U23's. Congrats to former club coach & rower Paul Thornton in his coaching position with the team. Best of luck to all.

Check out photo gallery of Championships, search by event and find your crew :) http://www.dephoto.biz/Search/Search.aspx?Path=\Rowing\Rowing%20Ireland\2017\Irish%20Rowing%20Championships

Unfortunately no Pots coming back to GRC this year but we had some very promising performances from all our crews especially our Inter, Junior and Novice girls squads who performed to their best through out the day, and gave some massive efforts in their races. We had some success in our Masters scullers with Sean Heaney and 'Mike' Walkowiak winning their respective Finals. Well done lads. To all our rowers, coaches, supporters, parents, family & friends, thanks for the ongoing help, and GRC will be soon back on the top of the podium where it belongs.

WIN....Men's Masters 8+ (c-d) final. Congrats to our Veteran men's crew who turned over an 8 second deficit at the start to win their Non-Championship event ahead of St Michaels in 2nd and 3rd place mixed composite crew. Well done lads. Enjoy a quiet night tonight.

"I took a stroll on the Old Long Walk...." all our Galway Girls relaxing today on their day off at National Champs 2017. Refuelling for their attack at Day 3 tomorrow. Thanks to parents for keeping them fed n happy.

Update from Friday: Friday: * Women's Club 4+ : Disappointment for the girls just missed out on qualification from their semi final, coming 4th. * Women's Junior 4- : Their race was turned into straight final at Heat time. The girls had a good row but came up against very strong crews and eventually came in 5th. There was little between the 2nd-5th placed crews, with the form crew leading from start to finish almost. * Women's Inter 8+ : This event was also turned into final. The crew had a very good performance, being in 2nd place up to the 1300m, behind a very strong Cork crew. The girls were overtaken by NUIG, Trinity and UCD in the run in, with little between them, eventually coming in 5th. But, given the new rules, brought in for various grades, this crew were relatively inexperienced against other clubs and certainly gave a very strong effort and acquitted themselves very well.

Nice article about Champs - AND great plug for former club oarsman and coach Paul Thornton, now coaching in UCC, who's coaching the Irish U23 4X- :) Super job Paul.

Schedule for club crews over coming days; Friday: Women's Club 4+ 10.05am / Final 12.55 Women's Junior 4- 14.35 / Final 16.50 Women's Inter 8+ 15.05 / Final 17.20 Sat: Women's J16 1X 9.15 / 11.40 / Final 15.55 Men's Masters 8+ Finals 15.40 Sun: Women's Junior 2- 8.30 / Final 11.30 Women's Inter 4+ 8.50 / Final 11.50 Women's J16 4X+ 10.35 / Final 13.50 Men's Masters 4+ Finals 11.15 Women's Inter 1X 13.30 / 15.30 / Final 17.30 Women's Club 8+ 14.10 / Final 16.30 Men's Masters 1X Finals 15.50

On the eve of the Irish National Championships, we'd just like to wish all our athletes, coaches, parents & supporters the very best of luck tomorrow and over the coming days. We hope all your hard work pays dividends and you all perform to your best. Also, best wishes to all our Galway neighbours, let's bring lots of Silverware back to the Corribside.

Attention GRC Supporters.... Fancy coming to Cork to cheer on the Club crews at the National Championships this weekend?? We have a few extra accommodation spaces available for Friday night only. You could watch crews racing Friday, hopefully help us celebrate Friday night and watch crews Saturday also. Please contact Tim Breen for details @ 086 811 7692

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Belated birthday shout out to the main man and club captain Rory 'this is not a race' O'Brien, we hope your day was as holesome as that gillet 😉 #Rowing #BirthdayBoy #ClubCaptian #IrishRowing #Gillet #GalwayRowingClub #CrocsAreShoesToo

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Perfect foggy calm, River Corrib at Salmon Weir.

IL be back quicker than you can say dab #champsiscoming

The core of EIGHTY FOUR #2018

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Oh cruel mistress how I've missed you!... not. #paintrain #rowing #ergo