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Don’t do places to learn the basics of free style kayaking, but if they did they might start with somewhere like Kilkenny!     I’m sure most paddlers have heard of the river Nore which flows through Kilkenny City but I’d be fairly certain only a small few are aware of the little gem of [...]

So the long weekend just past was scheduled for the first “Free you Style” event to take place in Kilkenny, sadly a couple of days before the event was to happen the recent very heavy rain fall had washed the weir out and there wasn’t much of a feature left. As the aim of the [...]

Hi, So a while back I did up a bit of a guide for one of Irelands best play spots Clifden on Irish Freestyle ao I thought I would stick it up here so it wouldn’t get lost in the depths of cyberspace. One of the reasons I did up this post was folks are [...]

Just a quick note on this: So of you may know I am currently part of the Irish Freestyle Committee this year and part of our job is to help promote freestyle kayaking and help introduce new people to the sport. I decided to run a “river freestyle” training  day on the river Boyne. Now [...]

Some post comp carnage on the wave Howdy folks, Where do we start, last weekend saw the kick off of the Irish Freestyle kayaking session with an event on the Curragower Falls in Limerick City. The run up to the event saw lots of people questioning the availability of water to make the wave work, [...]

Howdy folks, The weekend just gone saw the passing of the squad selection event for this year’s ICF World Freestyle Championships. The plan was to hold the event on Curragower wave in Limerick City, and following a phone call from the ESB on Friday afternoon confirming the requested water levels for the weekend everything was [...]