Club News
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| 15th of July 2008 | This is the first night for the last beginners course of 2008. This year we will have run beginniers courses for 84 adults and children. This is a huge undertaking and we hope to see all these paddlers back on the water with us in the coming weeks/months and years. |
| 10th of July 2008 | Club Outing on the Lower Bandon. This was attended by 20 paddlers ranging from Level 4 paddlers to people who had only completed the last beginners course. The whole idea of the trip was to gwet members used to running a range of various rivers. overall the trip was a great success. |
| 6th of July 2008 | Phoenix Kayak club were tasked with providing safety for this years Escape From Spike Island charity Swim for the build4life charity. |
| 31st of May 2008 | Ocean to City.....Uptake for this from Club Members was much greater than usual. Well done to all who took part (Ciaran Cooke, Tim Healy, Don O’Brien, Conor O’Geran, Dave O’Leary, Diarmuid Hickey, Don O’Hanlon & Donal Clancy) Weather conditions for the race were amazing and the race atmosphere was also super. This year seen a much larger turn-out for kayakers with a total of 46 kayaks over the three classes. This really created a great pre-race buzz. The race was won in a time of 1hr 45min 15sec. The fastest for PKC was Tim Healy with a time of 1hr 50min 28sec. Full results can be found here http://www.oceantocity.com/ |
| 20th of May 2008 | Tonight was the beginning of the 2nd beginners course. This had a total of 32 people. |
| 13th of May 2008 | Tonight seen the first lot of assessments for beginners, with a total of 23 being assessed. |
| 15th April 2008 | Courses for beginners start. New members please be at the site for 6.45pm with a completed course application form available from the downloads section on the Home Page. Also, please ensure that you have adequate clothing for on the water. Wetsuit would be ideal along with adequate footwear (old runners) |
| 8th April 2008 | First night back for all existing Club Members. If you have not completed a membership form for this year, please do. These can be downloaded from the Downloads page located on the Home Page. |
| 5th - 6th April 2008 | There was a REC 3 (Remote Emergency Care)course undertaken by 12 members of Phoenix Kayak Club at the Cork Centre for Emergency Care in Sports. This is a follow on from the REC 2 course that was completed in late 2007. Again tuition was excellent and much thanks and appreciation must go to course director Paul Allen for the professionalism and wealth of knowledge that he brought to this course. The course finished well into the late hours of Sunday night with a full scale exercise being carried out in the forrest located along the River Bandon. Seamus O'Mahony was unfortunate to draw the short straw and be chosen as team leader for the exercise. This really tested his leadership qualities as the exercise was very full on from the start but great admiration must go to Seamus for the way he held his head through-out the whole exercise which lasted a couple of hours. For those of you who were unaware of the weather conditions. Temperatures were well on their way to the - 4 Celcius as forecasted by the time we finished up. All in all, I think everybody really enjoyed the course and if anything, it has given us as a club a huge basis of knowledge in Remote Emergency Care which we can expand to meet the needs of our demanding sport. |
| 4th April 2008 | Friday night was the last night for Pool Sessions. These were a great sucess with lots of paddlers managing to learn to roll and even a few experienced paddlers taking advantage of the warm pool to perfect their roll. Many thanks to Evan for organising this. |
| 4th February 2008 | Pool Sessions start back on the 22nd of February 2008. The time for this is 7pm - 8pm These sessions are provisionally for Rolling Sessions as the interest for polo pre christmas ended up costing the club. Venue: Aura Leisure Centre in Cobh Time: 7pm - 8pm (arrive at 6.45pm to be on the water for 7pm) Cost: 10 euro per person So no excuses for not being able to roll this summer and remember to tell everybody. We really do need numbers to make this work. |
| 30th December 2007 | Great Island Kayak Race is run with great success. Congratulations to Ciaran Cooke who took 1st place in a tightly fought Elite Class and also congratulations to Don O'Brien who took a very convincing 1st place in the Touring Class. A big thanks must go to Michael Morris for all the hard work in organising the race. |
| 3rd December 2007 | Pool Sessions are finished until the new year, but remember Polo starts back early January in the pool so handy on the Turkey. |
| 30th November 2007 | First Polo Session is held at the Pool in Cobh. This marks an end to the very sucessful rolling sessions which have been running since the 9th of June. Numbers were low, but this should be much improved in the new year. |
| 23rd November 2007 | Last rolling session tonight due to the Polo Sessions Starting next week. |
| 11th November 2007 | The sullane trip had to be cancelled due to poor river levels however some quick thinking from our more Senior paddlers had us paddling on Lough Hyne that morning. Great numbers again for this trip. All photo's are in the Gallery. |
| 28th October 2007 | Laney River Trip: Levels were nice for this and it tested some of our new Level 2 & 3 paddlers. A good day was had by all. Photos can be seen in the Gallery. |
| 23rd September 2007 | Sandycove Outing was a huge sucess, with a great turn-out for this paddle. Photos are on the Gallery. |
| 30th September 2007 | Department of Arts Sports and Tourism has granted € 25,000 towards our Club this year to facilitate the purchase of a club trailer and additional boats which will allow the club develop and create the opportunity for more and more people to become involved in the club |
| 18th September 2007 | This was the last date for tuesday night sessions due to the nights closing in. However lots of river-trips planned so check out Upcoming Events for more info |
| 18th September 2007 | Congratulations to all the newly qualified Level 2 & Level 3 paddlers who passed their assessments this date. |
| 7th of September 2007 | Pool Sessions starting every Friday night. 6.45pm - 8.00pm |
7th of August 2007 |
Pool sessions set to continue for the winter nights with Polo on the cards. Times to follow. |
5th of August 2007 |
Congratulations to those club members who obtained their Level 4 proficiency recently. |
28th of July 2007 |
Pool Rolling session's a huge success. Saturday mornings 9am -10am Cobh Leisure Centre |
17th of July 2007 |
Congratulations to all who Completed and Passed the Level 3 Assessments |
19th of June 2007
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Level 3 Proficiency assessments deferred |
19th of June 2007
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Level 3 Proficiency assessments on Tuesday night
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12th of June 2007
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Level 2 Proficiency assessments on Tuesday Night
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9th of June 2007
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Pool "rolling" Sessions begin in the Leisure
Centre, Cobh 9am - 10am
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2nd of June 2007
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Ocean to City Race "An Ras Mor" Good turn-out
by club paddlers for this event.
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9th of May 2007
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Level 1-2 kayak proficiency courses begin
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26th of April 2007
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Polo
Sessions arranged for Thursday Nights 6:30pm with Niall Crowley "check
the forum for further details"
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28th of April 2007
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K-boating sessions arranged for saturday mornings with
Ciaran Cooke "check the forum for further details"
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17th of April 2007
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Normal Tuesday night sessions resume
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25th of March 2007
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At long
last, dates for tuesday night sessions have been announced.
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20th of January 2007.
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Well done to Muireann Lynch who will be representing
Ireland this year at the world freestyle Championships. And to Sean Mc for
making it on to the Irish Wildwater racing team for this season.
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31st of December 2006
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Congratulations to Ciaran Cooke and Don O Brien on
winning 1st and 2nd in touring class in the Great Island Race. |
27th of November 2006
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Phoenix
Kayak Club is listed in both Ireland.ie & Corkkerry.ie tourism websites in the 'Things To Do' section.
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18th of November 2006
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Article in The Evening Echo about The Phoenix Kayak Club
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10th of November 2006
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Phoenix
Kayak Club AGM is scheduled to take place in Ballinlough
Scout Hall on Friday 17th of November @ 19:30hrs
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1st of November 2006 |
Phoenix Kayak Club Website is launched
this date @ www.phoenixkayakclub.com
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31st of October 2006 |
Phoenix kayak club Forum is launched at: www.phoenixkayakclub.editboard.com
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10th of October 2006
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Cork Corporation agree to give The Phoenix Kayak Club the use of the site at "Inch Field", Lee Road for 99 years by way of a Sporting Lease. Full details can be found @ http://www.corkcorp.ie/citycouncil/minutes/091006.pdf
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