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Safety is not a set of rules. It is an attitude
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| Policies
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Kilcock Canoe Polo Club has a full
set of policy documents dealing with discipline, child protection,
and other matters. You can download this as a PDF file (Adobe Acrobat
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All participants in Club activities
must have a current membership.
Fees for 2004 are:
First Family Member: €80.
Each Additional Family Member: €40 |
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Club
History
| 1998 |
A canoe instructor, Aideen
Cleary comes to Kilcock to do canoe classes in June. The club is formed
in July with six members.
We enter our first competition in Ballina with 5 members in August:
Thomas Noone, Mark & Ciaran McCormack, Peter Guinan, and Patricia
McCormack (Sean Downes was unable to travel), playing with borrowed
equipment |
| 1999 |
The National Committee of the ICU gives
the club lends us a set of boats and equipment. We are helped out
with much good advice from many experienced paddlers, especially Maire
Diggin and Deaglan O’Drisceol from Celbridge. We store our gear
for the summer in an old building loaned to us by a local publican,
Mr Thomas O’Keeffe.
Mark and Ciaran McCormack are selected to play on the U21 Irish Team
for the Invitational Flanders Cup in Belgium in June. |
| 2000 |
We set up our first official committee
and open the club to children in Summer 2000.
Sean Downes takes the first group of 7 year olds on the water and
continues to do so every Tuesday throughout the summer.
Our first two instructors (Mark/Ciaran) are certified. They run summer
camps all summer, and by the end of the summer 140 children have canoed
with the club.
Canoe Polo is introduced into the ICU national calendar for the first
time ever with the help of Patricia McCormack, National Development
Officer.
Chairperson: Glynnis Reidy |
| 2001 |
Mick Cotter gets involved instructing
on Tuesdays, and Kilcock has the first Junior teams under 14s in the
country.
Mark & Ciaran McCormack are again selected to represent Ireland
at the 1st U21 European Championships in Poland. The team come 7th.
We get much needed sponsorship from Eircom 11811 and buy our own set
of boats. Patricia McCormack invited to become manager of Irish Under
21 Squad.
Chairperson: Tom Colton |
| 2002 |
Ciaran Clinton and Joe Noone get involved
as instructors. Fifteen Kilcock players are invited to attend Junior
Irish Development Squad, of whom five are invited to attend U21 Squad.
Junior Teams play in winter league in Cabra for the first time, and
our teams do very well in all junior levels. We win the Irish Open
Division 1 Juniors and Division 2 Juniors.
Stephen Davenport, Mark Brogan, Ciaran and Mark McCormack are all
selected on the Irish U21 Team to play in the 1st U21 World Championships
in Essen, Germany. This team come 5th beating the British team for
the first time.
Chairperson: Sean Downes |
2003 |
Kilcock have teams in all divisions in
the Spring Pool League for the first time. We run classes in the pool
in NUI Maynooth through the winter/spring months. Five players are
selected for the U21 Irish Team to play in the 5th European Championships,
which are held in Kilcock in August: Ciaran & Mark McCormack,
Brian Devlin, Mark Brogan and Stephen Davenport. Interest in canoe
polo reaches a new height in Kilcock, as teams from fifteen European
countries come to Kilcock to compete in some of the best summer weather
seen in years.
Eight players are selected to play on the Irish Development teams
to play in Liverpool in June 2003: A-Team: Patrick Mooney, Neill Reilly,
Shane Downes and Kenneth Kinsella; B-Team: Michael Mahon, Garry Mahon,
Craig Stevenson and David Dunne.
Our Club is granted €20,000 from the National Lottery for equipment.
We also appoint an Equipment Officer, Peter Fitzgerald.
Our Division 3 team win the Limerick Cup in April, with members: Kelly
Anne Downes, Liz O’ Farrell, Sean Downes, Lynn McCormack, Thomas
Noone, Mick Cotter, Joe Noone.
30 members of the club take part in Proficiency Award Level 1 &
2
Maire Diggins, a senior Irish Ladies Team Player, coaches a group
of Girls from the club our first all girl group. We enter them in
the indoor league and they win Division 4 with the following team:
Lynn McCormack, Kelly Anne Downes, Carley McCourt, Louise McCarron
and Amanda Brown
In October our first adult-only class is formed, and they are now
playing in the indoor spring league.
In November, six instructors take a Level 1 Instructor course.
Classes are run in the pool in NUI Maynooth, in which 36 children
take part.
Chairman: Chris Morash |
| 2004 |
We are granted planning permission to
build a boathouse on the banks of the canal opposite the Dragon Boat
Restaurant. Most of the research, planning applications, grant applications
and other necessary work is done by Liz O’ Ferrall. |
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