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There will be a river trip on the Liffey for Freshers this Monday, the 27th October. It's €10 for the trip; €5 deposit, which will be given back on the day and €5 petrol money as it will be a car trip. You can put you name down for this trip on Wednesday between 12.30-1.30 or Thursday 1-2.30 or drop our Trips Officer, O'Reilly, a mail at ciaran.oreilly45 AT gmail.com. Also could any of our older members willing and available to do rescue or drive also let him know, thank you.

Hey everybody.

Don't forget that the second fresher trip is on today. Same details as last Wednesday, meeting the bus at the back of the Hub at 1:30pm. Don't forget to bring the following with you:

• Warm gear (clothes you don't mind getting wet and dirty! No jeans though!) or any wetsuits or kayaking gear you have
• A spare change of clothes
• €3 for the bus
• A friend (if they haven't joined yet they can join on the day)
• And your wallet to go to the bar with us after!

We provide all the rest of the gear you'll need!

There will also be a raffle for a new hoodie, tickets will be given out on the bus and the draw will be made in the pub afterwards.

Hi all and welcome to DCU canoe club

Our beginners Liffey sessions are starting this Wednesday, and all are welcome to come along! We'll be meeting at the back of the hub at half one, boarding our luxury coach and been transported to the Strawberry beds where we have a club house and a great area for learning how to paddle! Don't worry if you haven't paddled before, we cater for beginners, equally if you have paddled before still come along so we can see what everyone is like and so that you can get to know us all!

Most of the getting to know each other will be in the pub afterwords, details to be confirmed!

So what do you need?

-Warm gear (clothes you don't mind getting wet and dirty!) or any wetsuits or kayaking gear you have
-€3 for the bus
-A friend (if they haven't joined yet they can join on the day)
-And your wallet to go to the bar with us after!
We provide all the rest of the gear you'll need!

Picture Enda Doran AKA Junior

Was a good day all-round. Myself, Ashling Conway, Aisling Doherty, Ronan O’Hart, Ronan Dolan, Fiona Devitt and Ger Gleason headed out to the mighty Liffey. Levels were as high as I’ve seen them. We started of at the Sluice at Lucan, but it was fairly washed out. We managed to impress those attempting to play there with our supper paddling and rescue skills! A few swims later, we regrouped bellow and headed on downstream, our only loss being one of my booties which I had kindly lent to Ronan D!

Arriving at Lucan weir the boxes looked a little less than friendly with a nasty looking hole in the bottom one. Ronan O’Hart decided to go ahead anyway, telling us that the rest of them were fine and it would be easy enough to get around. He proceeded to spin around in the second box and end up sideways in the hole. The rest of us decided to stick with the chicken slide! But the fun wasn’t over yet, we decided to go for a play in the friendly looking hole on the left. It wasn’t bad, got some nice spins, but it didn’t want to let go. Ever. Even after a capsize it held us in. it didn’t help that it was just over a foot deep, so rolling was tricky. After some rather unusual rolling methods from myself and Ronan we decided to let that particular hole be.

Next stop was Annalivia weir, nothing to write home about here. The normal slide had a hole at the bottom which is probably wroth noting, we all ran it straight through without any bother! On to Wrens nests and things got a bit interesting again. I stayed above while the rest ran it all through on the left. After that I went back for a run down the centre. What I didn’t know was that in high water the line moves a few feet to the left (yes really it does! Honestly!) and I dropped straight onto the stopper. Surfed it down a bit before bashing myself of the fish slide before being able to paddle clear of the stopper bearing a rather sore jawbone. It got better though as there was some good playing potential on the left side.

And for the important part, the Billy award goes to Ronan D whose last swim was at Wrens, he also leads the count with a total of 3 swims. Ashling C makes up the count with a swim at the sluice. Well done for going back around and making it through without bother on the second time of asking!

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DCU canoe club is one of the colleges biggest and oldest club and its certainly the best! We'll be having a stand at the up coming Clubs and Socs days (October 7th-8th), so for just four euro, you can come along and join up. We run regular river trips and pool sessions for our members as well as the infamous Achill trip where we bring two bus loads to Achill Island for a mammoth party and some fantastic surf, (yes we do promise good surf ). So make sure to join us on Clubs and Socs day, and make DCU canoe club the centre of your college life! For more information put a post up on the forums or send me an email