As a fitting event for the Women in Sport week, Tuesday the 9th saw the final edition of Teen Connect, the third online webinar as part of the Teen Connect Series. This was the final night of the first part of this programme. Teen connect aims to bring together a community of young women (aged [...]
‘Canoeing Ireland are working towards becoming a more inclusive organisation for all. We would like to invite members to our 6-part Disability & Inclusion Education Webinar Series: ‘Disability & Inclusion Awareness in Paddlesports’ This first webinar will be delivered by Cara (Sport Inclusion Ireland), and aims to address areas of overall awareness of different [...]
Paddlers from all disciplines and backgrounds were honoured last night at the 2021 Canoeing Ireland Awards. At the virtual ceremony, Awards were presented for a diverse range of achievements across paddlesports in 2020. While 2020 was a difficult year for all sports, Canoeing Ireland was extremely lucky that some athletes had the opportunity to [...]
Registration is now open for the 2021 Canoeing Ireland Awards - Register now We would like to invite all our members and friends to join us in celebrating the fantastic achievements and results we saw across the board in Irish paddlesports in 2020. In a year when we need it more than ever [...]
TEAM IRELAND ATHLETES TAKE STRONG STANCE AGAINST ONLINE ABUSE, DISCRIMINATION AND HATE SPEECH WITH NEW ‘DON’T SCROLL BY’ CAMPAIGN The new initiative by the Olympic Federation of Ireland calls on the public and sporting stakeholders to take a zero-tolerance approach to online hate speech and to #DeleteBanReport it FEBRUARY 23RD, 2021: Team Ireland athletes [...]
Teen Connect is the next step in our goal to enhance the brilliant community we have in paddlesports. This Zoom event aims to bring together a community of young women in our sport to create a supportive environment to allow them to grow in paddlesports. Teen Connect will allow young female paddlers to share [...]
From the launch edition of Coach Connect, a new initiative to gather a community of coaches together to enhance the coaching of paddlesports in Ireland. The 'Future Panel', hosted by Sam Curtis (Canoeing Ireland), featured 3 young coaches giving their inspiring stories of getting into coaching and how they are sharing their passion for [...]
Canoeing Ireland will be running a series of Child Protection workshops over the coming months. These workshops, hosted by Heather Wilson, will cover Online Safeguarding for children, including Code of Ethics basic awareness. The workshop is a Sport Ireland certified Safeguarding 1 Course. These online workshops are for the benefit of everyone involved in children's [...]
Monday the 8th of February saw the much-awaited launch of ‘Coach Connect’. The first edition, entitled ‘I am a coach’, was the first step to creating a nationwide community of coaches in paddlesports throughout Ireland. The overarching objective is simple: “Coaching paddlesports better, together”. Diverse in disciplines, gender, age, knowledge, level and experience; the [...]
Frank Pilkington, (1942-2021) RIP Frank, who was a key mover in the sport of Canoe Slalom in Ireland from the late 60’s through to the late 70’s as an innovator, committee member, national and international paddler and mentor/coach to a huge cohort of Irish slalom paddlers, has died suddenly in Hong Kong a short [...]
