News & Updates

This weekend, the west of Ireland becomes the centre of the kayaking world as GalwayFest, now one of the largest kayaking festivals on the international calendar, returns for its 13th year, running from the 6th to the 8th of March.

Twenty years ago, Irish Whitewater started with a simple idea: Ireland has brilliant rivers, and paddlers deserve a proper place to find and share information about them. Back in 2006, a lot of that knowledge lived in people's heads or …

Paddlefest 2013 will be run on the 6th and 7th April 2013 from The HUB, Cillin Hill, Kilkenny.

The event will be focused on providing workshops across a broad range of disciplines and key development areas. The workshops will be …

Photo by Shane Cronin - Dagger Kayaks Ireland

For the full results and videos from the weekend check out the GalwayFest forum thread and the GalwayFest Facebook page. For some really good photos of the whitewater event check out the …

The Caher River, Co.Clare, on high water. Video and editing by Andrew Regan.

Ciarán Heurteau and Mike Dawson, who make up Twelve Productions have produced another great video. Their last video, 'An Irish Slalom Kayaker' focused on Ciaráns background, it served as a nice introduction.

Their latest video '...' is beautifully …

The routine is a short kayak film that highlights the summer paddling of Irish kayakers abroad created by Seán Mc Ternan. Every summer hundreds of amateur Irish kayakers flock to mainland Europe to get a taste of some big white-water. …

Galway Kayak Club in association with Forge Motion Pictures are proud to announce that we will be hosting the European Premiere of their new film Wildwater at the Eye Cinema, Galway on December 2nd 2010.

Director Anson Fogel will …

After a very successful inaugural year last year the Crana Canoe Weekend is back. The second Crana Canoe Weekend is scheduled the weekend of the 30th/31st of October 2010.

The Weekend is made up of several events: Freestyle, Sea Kayak …