Belturbet Rowing Club is seeking to re-invent itself by inviting people to come give the sport a try. Buoyed by Irish rowing team success at the Paris Olympics, the Cavan club has just taken stock of three new boats and a professional coach.
Now, they want men and women from the age of teen to young adult to come and utilise their two new 40ft racing boats and, for older rowers to try out the club's new 35ft touring or training boat on Quivy Lake on Lough Erne. Men's Irish pair rowers Ross Corrigan and Nathan Timoney have just raced their way into an Olympic A final. Both men come from Fermanagh and have trained on the Erne, with Ross coming from just down the road from Belturbet, in Kinawley.
Tommy McMahon promises anyone who wants to try the sport at the Belturbet club they will receive professional coaching on first-rate equipment, on a beautiful part of the lake: "This is exactly about bringing people out who've never been out before," Tommy told Northern Sound, "We have a coach, all the safety equipment, which, includes life jackets but, more importantly, we have a safety boat travelling beside the boat that's out on the 2water so people are covered at all times and we'd particularly like people - not the very young - but, older people to come here and really enjoy something new."
