Author(s): Kieran McCarthy

Sports and Outdoor Activities

Skibbereen Rowing Club is home to Ireland's first Olympic medal winners for rowing, the O'Donovan brothers. Furthermore, it has developed several others Olympians, as well as World. European and a record number of National champions. From humble beginnings, Skibbereen has risen to become Ireland's most successful rowing club. This is its story, told from the point of view of the members who founded the club in the 1970s, those rowers who first put the club on the map in the 1980s and 1990s, all the way up to the current members, coaches and rowers, who have taken the club to new, previously unforeseen heights. After reading this book you will surely believe that, when it comes to rowing, there must be something in the water in Skibbereen. Book jacket.