Dublin local Moe Kelleher has been ripping it up on Bus Eater for the past few weeks training for the Worlds. Keep it up Moe, we’d love to see an Irish World champion.
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Party boy Nick Doran and Benny Cullen are on location in central America with the Oil & Water project, run by US boaters Seth Warren and Tyler Bradt.
Nick on location with Miss Honduras. He’s right, even if you look closely you can’t see his lips move.
The plan is to drive from Alaska to Patagonia in an ecologically friendly truck. As usual when the lads are involved it looks like the craic is mighty.
The weekend of 9th/10th December sees an influx of paddlers from all of the Uk to the RDCP in Devon for a weekend of films and slides shows. Highlights this year include talks on Taiwan, Venezualan plus a show about our trip to India by myself, Rosie and Ali Donald. Keep the diary free.
I’ve added a few river descriptions to a new online guide to Irish riversirishwhitewater.com
Dave Carroll on the Roughty River, Kerry
Make sure to check it out if you are planning a boating trip to Ireland
‘Where the Sun Never Sets’, a new short film by liveoncemedia, has recently won the best professional documentary award at the National Paddling Film Fest in the US,
competing against some of the biggest names in adventure film making.
Back in October the west coast of Ireland was bombarded by week after week of massive swells.I was hanging out down in Lahinch with some mates, Gav Gallagher of Dreamcatcher Productions, and pro surferJohn McCarthy, Irish Surf Champion.The boys were super fired up about the wave they had surfed that morning for the very first time, Aill Na Searrach or Ailleens. Locals have known about the break for years, but until now no one has had the balls to drop in on this monster
Until now.
Hypoxia 2 has been shortlisted for the Adrenaline Award by a panel of judges at the Wet West Film Festival, Hokitita, New Zealand. Hypoxia 2 and Where the Sun Never Sets were both screened as part of the film festival. Apparently Hypoxia 2 went down particularly well with the kiwi audience.
In-Flux eventually won the Adrenaline Award, just ahead of Hypoxia 2 and Tweaking the Nose of Terror
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The last weekend in November saw paddlers descend on the Annamoe river in Wicklow from all over Ireland and further afield for the Big Boat Bonanza. Despite low water levels hundreds of paddlers competed from beginner to pro, and the atmosphere was unmatched at any other kayaking event I’ve ever been to. Having the craic was the name of the game, and Olli Grau, Raphael Thibaut, Deb Pinniger, Andy Phillips, Cheesy and many more were treated to a weekend of Irish style humour. The carnage was unsurpassed, with a certain nameless whitewater warrior having a very unexpected out-of-boat experience. He had the very unusual experience of swimming under a very large manufacturers banner with his photo on it!
Needless to say those who attended the party will never forget it.
Sickboy and Andy Phillips
Liveonce Adventure Media teamed up with Steve Rogers of Bread & Butter
Productions to film some world class kayaking in the Voss area of Norway.
Early June saw some record waterlevels, and we teamed up with the whitewater
warriors, Allan Ellard, Mikey Abbott, Andy Phillips as well as Benjamin Hjort
for some hair raising whitewater. How hairraising? Well during the Voss extreme
race on the Brandseth, Alan Ellard and Raphael Thibaut (among others) both
swam. Enough said. (I wasn’t very fast, but hey, I didn’t swim). The rivers
were cold, it rained a lot, and most of the time our eyes were out on stalks.
The rivers started out high, then it rained for a couple of weeks. Spicy!
