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This year’s Galway Regatta will take place on Sunday June 16 at the NUIG grounds at Dangan.

Galway rowers are swapping their oars for bicycles in a bid to raise funds for the club and Galway charity Ability West.

Galway Rowing Club, the city’s oldest, is appealing for financial support for the purchase of a new boat.

The Galway Rowing Club, which for more than a century has nurtured the potential of numerous young and gifted rowers, winning 28 Irish titles, is calling on all ex-members and other members of the public to give their support by taking part in its bumper Easter Sunday raffle next month.

The Galway Rowing Club, which for more than a century has nurtured the potential of numerous young and gifted rowers, winning 28 Irish titles, is calling on all ex-members and other members of the public to give their support by taking part in its bumper Easter Sunday raffle next month.

Competitive rowing had been taking place on the Corrib for many years when the Ancient Order of Hibernians decided to form a new club in 1910. They got local contractor Walter Flaherty (who had already built the Corrib Club) to build a wooden clubhouse on the site of the present Galway Rowing Club. It was tarred each year up to 1970 in order to preserve the wood, and so it became known as ‘the Blackening Box’. In that year also there was a dispute in Saint Patrick’s Rowing Club and a number of oarsmen left and joined the new club.