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Tribesmen’s rising star, Lisa Dilleen, added another title to her growing list at the Queen’s Rowing Regatta in Belfast on Saturday.

James Murphy of Graiguenamanagh Rowing Club recently finished third in the Irish National Rowing Championships in the men’s senior single scull.

Galway rower Lisa Dilleen has taken another step in her promising international career after capturing two gold medals at the prestigious junior regatta in Munich.

Twenty-eight oarsmen from St Josephs Rowing Club competed against the elite of English rowing in the British Schools Championships in Nottingham recently.

The news that Nicky Joyce has been dropped from the Galway senior football panel is a blow to his county’s chances of retaining the Connacht championship.

July 4 1929 was an important day in the history of rowing in this country, and particularly in this part of the country, because that was the day that Emmetts Rowing Club from Menlo brought the first senior eights championship trophy to Galway. Almost all the members of the crew were native Irish speakers and all lived locally and worked by the river. During a very wet spring when they could do very little farmwork, someone suggested to them that as boatmen, if they were all put into a racing eight, they would be able to take on any crew.

Rowers from NUIG claimed five titles at the Irish National Rowing Championships over the weekend, including the blue riband event, the men’s senior eights.

A new national rowing event will be held in Galway next March.