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Location | Islandbridge, Dublin |
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Home water | River Liffey |
Founded | 1908 |
Key people | Dara Breaden (President) |
Members known as | Neppers |
Affiliations | Rowing Ireland |
Website | www |
Events | |
Neptune Head of The River, Neptune Regatta, Dublin Metropolitan Regatta | |
Notable members | |
Derek Holland [1] Seán Drea, Pat McDonagh, [2] Neville Maxwell, [3] Tony O'Connor, Gearoid Towey, Colm Butler, [4] Martin Stevens, [5] Frank Moore, [6] Micheál Bailey, [7] Barry Currivan, [8] Brendan Dolan [1] |
Neptune Rowing Club, founded in 1908, is located on the River Liffey at Islandbridge, Dublin. It is one of the largest clubs in Ireland.
The club is a member of the Dublin Metropolitan group of clubs which operates a boat house on the reservoir in Blessington - therefore the club's rowers train at both Islandbridge and Blessington. The Dublin Metropolitan Regatta is also hosted here each year.
Neptune has a strong history in competitive rowing - it has accumulated 152 National Championship titles since 1914, and has won a number of Henley Regatta events including the Diamond Sculls, Britannia 4, Ladies Plate 8, Thames Cup 8 and Prince of Wales 4x (composite with Commercial RC).
In the 1996 Thames Cup final, Neptune beat Wallingford A. [9]
More recently Neptune had further success at Henley in the Henley Women's Regatta of 2010 with a convincing win for the Elite Pair, beating Oxford University by two lengths in the final. [10]
Year | Races won |
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1982 | Britannia Challenge Cup |
1986 | Ladies' Challenge Plate |
1996 | Thames Challenge Cup |
The club currently has a very large and active group of members competing at all levels and across age groups, from novices to internationals competing for Ireland. [11]
A 'Learn To Row' programme is taught at Neptune Rowing Club and participants can graduate from the programme into our competitive Novice Squad. The club also boasts a considerable number of Masters athletes (age 28-70) who compete in Ireland and individuals also represent Ireland at the World Masters Championships. [12]
All these are Neptune Irish Championships Titles (152 titles since 1914) [13]
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