Congratulation to Sean Nolan for wining the Healy O’Kane sea swim race today 9th August 2015 in Wicklow Harbour. Sean had a fantastic race coming from behind catching a number of swimmers to take the win in the final few meters. This is the third sea swim win for the Club in 2015, well done to all the Swimmers.
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL SWIMMERS WHO WISH TO PARTICIPATE
TIME CHANGE – BOAT LEAVES HOWTH 2.00 PM SHARP – NEW LOCATION
FACILITY NOW TO TAKE 80 SWIMMERS
REGISTRATION: 12.30PM
SAFETY BRIEFING: 1.30PM
BOATS LEAVE: 2.00PM
RACE STARTS: 2.30PM
WE ARE DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE THAT DUBLIN BAY CRUISES HAVE FACILITATED CLONTARF SWIMMING CLUB WITH BRINGING SWIMMERS TO THE ISLAND.
ALL SWIMMERS MUST REGISTER AT THE TIME LISTED ABOVE.
THE NEW LOCATION FOR REGISTRATION IS THE WEST PIER HOWTH, BESIDE THE ICE PLANT AND OPPOSITE THE BRASS MONKEY AND THE OAR HOUSE RESTAURANTS.
THE ST. BRIDGET BOAT IS ON A TIGHT SCHEDULE AND IT WILL BE LEAVING THE WEST PIER IN HOWTH SHARP AT 2.00PM.
PLEASE ALLOW YOURSELF PLENTY OF TIME TO REGISTER, GET CHANGED AND BE SWIM READY.
YOURS IN SPORT
Brian Nolan
Mobile: 086-2661981
E-Mail: conquer@indigo.ie
Congratulations to Sean Nolan for a forth place finish in the Dublin SC Race today 12th July.
All swimmers competing this year in any Leinster Open Sea races are required to complete Rules and Swimmers’s Declaration. Swimmers can do this via the Fit magazine website. See attached link for instructions and link to Fit Magazine Web site,
https://www.fitmagazine.ie/events/race/leinster-open-sea-rules-and-declaration
Please complete the
Note: When you link into the above, please press enter as if you are going to purchase the rules and declaration but there is no charge for same. When complete you will get an acknowledgement number that you accept the rules and regulations.
Well done to all our swimmers who competed in our yearly internal Club sea races at the Bull Wall on Saturday 4th July. The age of the swimmers was between 8 and 60 and we held four races in total. The results were as follows, Girls – 1st Lana Nolan, 2nd Robyn Joyce, 3rd Iris Reddington, 4th Elle Joyce. Boys (U13) – 1st James Tracey, 2nd Philippe Tracey, 3rd Aaron Walsh, 4th Conor McGrath, 5th Sam Joyce, Boys (Over 13) – 1st Pierre Tracey, 2nd Shane Gannon, 3rd Sean Nolan. Senior Mens – 1st Joe Kearns, 2nd Colm Walsh, 3rd Martin Reddington. Finally well done to our two Senior Women swimmers who swam also in the Senior race – 1st Mary Tracey, 2nd Catherine Leavy. Afterwards we were back to Clontarf GAA Club for a barbecue, thanks to Darren Joyce for taking care of Chef duties and Bobby Nolan for organising the food, also thanks to everyone who helped and contributed to the running of the event, this was very much appreciated. Thanks to Clontarf GAA Club for the hiring of the pitch and allowing us to use the Club house. Don’t forget our two Club Open Sea races this summer, the Island Swim in Howth is on the 25th of July and the Bobby Nolan Swim is on the 26th of July at the Bull Wall, we need Volunteers to help out with both of these races.
Swim Ireland are running a Child protection course on the 29th of July 2015, the cost of the course is 20 Euro and is on between 18.30 and 21.30. If you have not done a course or if your course is out of date it would be worth attending. Contact Swim Ireland directly if you wish to attend. The course is held in Irish Sports HQ in Blanchardstown. See Swim Ireland website in the links section for more details.
The U14 (2001) and the U12 (2003) players traveled to Manchester this weekend to take part in the City Of Manchester Water Polo Festival 2015 for 2001 and 2003 born players on the 27th June. The U14 team came up against very tough opposition and worked very hard to get a win during the day, the standard was very good and a great experience for the players. With only two subs on the bench the team had to dig deep playing 6 matches in one day. The U12 team again had to work hard after loosing their first game to Bridgefield, then coming back to win their second game against St. Andrews which secured 2nd place in the group. Then winning against Lancaster to earn a place in the Semi Final. The team lost the semi final to Sedgefield eventually coming 4th overall. Finishing 4th was a great placement for this team after winning the Irish Cup this year. The teams gained valuable experience with a total of 11 matches played, a special mention to our goal keeper Jack Dolan who played for both teams over the day, Jack put in a fantastic performance as did all the players from both teams. Thanks to the City of Manchester Waterpolo Club who organised the festival with 30 teams from all over the UK and with Clontarf the only club from Ireland, a brilliant event organised by the Manchester Club, a great day for all the kids. We will be back next year.
Be sure to pick up the current issue of the Northside People (24th June) to see a write up about the U12 (2003) team winning the Irish Cup in May. See the Sports section page 24. A big thanks to the Northside people for the article.
On Saturday the 20th June, three Clontarf Senior Players took part in two Open Water Races in Lough Key (Boyle). The first race was over 750 meters with Dario Fernandez coming 3rd in a time of 10.34, followed by Mike McNieve who came in 20th in a time of 12.17. Later that day they took part in a 1500 meter open water race, Dario again was up at the front coming in 8th with a time of 19.52 followed by Martin Reddington who came 15th in a time of 22.44 and then Mike McNieve came in 24th with a time of 24.09. For swimming this event a total of 690 Euros was raised for the Irish Cancer Association. Thanks to all who donated to this worthy cause and well done to all our Swimmers. Another set of great results for our Open Water Swimmers. If you wish to take part in Opens Sea Races during the summer for more information visit leinsteropensea.ie for the Leinster Open Sea swimming schedule.