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January 2008
Beginners Course - Wednesday 16 January read more

February 2008
Longford Trip 22nd to 24th. Paddling the River Inny. All abilities welcome even if you have just started read more Grainne's wedding Friday 29th Feb. Celebrate with the happy couple in the evening at the Highlands hotel, Glenties

March 2008
Castlefin Race 2008 - Irish Canoe Union / Donegal Canoe Club Marathon Race Saturday 1st March. Race Results Big Johnny Three-Oh! - 1st March from 9.30pm. Bound for Boston, Derry. Celebrate with Johnny from Foyle Paddlers who turns 30 and will be at the bar demonstrating bow enders! Wild Water Racing Training Camp Easter Weekend 21-23 March. The WWKC are running a training weekend on the Mourne and Owinkillew...read more Pool Sessions End Wednesday 26th March

April 2008
Annual General Meeting - Wednesday 21st April 8pm Josie's Bar. Elect the committee, review the years achievments, have your say! Scotland Trip - Friday 4th April returning Monday 7th April. Outdoor Paddling Starts 9th April - Meet every Wednesday at Ballyraine School, Letterkenny at 6pm. Text Davey if you need to hire equipment 48 hours notice required. Equipment Hire €10.00 Belfast Canoe Club - Lagan Descent Canoe Race & Paddle Sunday April 20th, 2008 Race starts at 12.15 with last entries at 11.45 click here for details

May 2008
Portrush Sea Race - Saturday 10th May - Sea Kayak Race from Port Rush Harbour. Registration 10am. Adults £4, Junior £2 Next Beginners Course - TBA

June 2008
Junior Camping Weekend

July 2008
Ramelton Festival

August 2008


September 2008
The I.C.U's annual Liffey Descent race

October 2008


November 2008


December 2008
Christmas Paddle Christmas Party

Swim-a-Dex

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Céad míle fáilte
Donegal Canoe Club is a canoeing club based in Letterkenny, County Donegal, North West Ireland. We kayak, sea kayak, kayak surf and canoe. Our members also enjoy marathon kayaking, slalom kayaking and kayak polo and have been offering these sports to the wider community as a club since 1997.

Our membership is open to anyone, beginners of all ages are always welcome, please feel free to get in touch through the contact section on this site.

The Donegal Canoe Club will help you discover what you can do and most of all you will have fun doing it! If you want to know more about us or canoeing please paddle over the Information link above and find out more.



Awards for 2008 - 9 May 2008 The Gallagher Mouldings Perpetual Trophy for service and contributions to the club was this year awarded to Linda Turner. A new award for Achievement was presented by Ken Moore to Declan Emery, beating other nominees Rachel Bourne, Andrew Harron and Manus O'Donnell.

New Committee - 9 May 2008 A new committee for 2008-2009 was elected at the AGM in April. The new committee is read more

Castlefin Race- 03 March 2008 A great days racing a big thank you from the DCC to all that attended especially everyone from Galway, Bernard and Alfie and LYIT, the WWKC, and Belfast CC. Thanks to the "sandwich ladies" Francis, Noleen and Margaret and the Harron family for making us all so welcome in Castlefin. See you all again next year.
Resuscitation Training - 20 Feb 2008 Well done to Andy, Andrew, Cathal, Davey, Declan, Deirdre, Denis, Frank, Ken, Liam, Linda, Mary, Michael, Paul, and Roisin who recently attended a 6 hour Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Automated External Defibrillator (AED) training course. The course was held by the Donegal Civil Defence in association with the Irish Heart Foundation. As part of their commitment to this they will have to take refresher courses every 90 days.

DCC on You Tube - 11 Feb 2008 We now have a Donegal Canoe Club account on You Tube and will be using this from now on for our video clips. Any club member can upload to the account, the details are available on request. Click here


Web Watch..
Irish White Water You can now find a new link in our Paddling Sites section for Irelands White Water river guide. This site has been put together well with some very clever river gauge info. www.irishwhitewater.com

Learn from Eric Jackson Check out Eric Jacksons site and have a look at the Techniques page for some helpful tips, especially if you are a DCC Young Gun!

Featured Donegal Canoe Club Paddler

Linda Turner going over Duff falls on the Sligo / Leitrim border. When Linda isn't paddling or teaching beginners, she is mammy to Chantelle, Alana and Luke. In her spare time she is a Civil Defence Heights Rescue instructor and last year lead her team to win the All Ireland Heights Rescue Championships. Linda is one of the founder members of the Donegal Canoe Club and lives in Ramelton.

DCC Challenge Cup

This year we will be recording DCC members attendance and place in any competition and awarding points. We are calling this the DCC Challenge Cup and a trophy and prize will be presented at the Christmas party. It doesn't matter what class you enter for or even what competition you enter as long as it is a recognised paddling event. So for example it could be a Surfing, Playboating or Slalom competition not just a race. It will be a single award and the points scoring system should allow juniors to compete against seniors and females against males all with a more than fair chance winning!

For more details and rules readmore

You Tube

Here's a clip of Andy Harron letting out the fear by screaming is head off! Filmed by Edward Broekaart

Andy is a screamer!


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