Podcasts about rowing ireland

Enjoy the Olympics folks? Enjoy the fact that Ireland has never won as many medals? Note the fact that without financial support, none of that would have been possible? We may think athletes don't need money to win stuff but they do. Our rowers need to be trained to the highest standards and someone has to pay for that? Property advisers Avison Young have been sponsoring Rowing Ireland for 8 years and take great pride in the Gold medal won last week by Fintan McCarthy and Paul O'Donovan. Fergal Burke is the Managing Director of the commercial property advisers Avison Young

Neville Maxwell is a former professional and international rower. He is currently a Director of Rowing Ireland and the Chairman of the High Performance Committee. He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics and is a multiple world rowing championship medallistIn this episode, we discuss Neville's introduction to rowing, his professional career, experiences at the Olympics, thoughts on retirement and his current position as High Performance Chair and Director of Irish Rowing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rowing Ireland is on a high after Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy's stellar gold cinch at the Men's Lightweight Double Sculls final last week.The talent that has been shown thus far in the Olympics by the Irish rowing team has clearly been inspirational. Kieran is joined by the incredible rowers Philip Doyle, Paris bronze Medalist, and Aifric Keogh, Tokyo Bronze Medalist to discuss.

Rowing in Ireland is in an incredibly strong position as the National Championships take place in Cork this weekend.  The Olympic Federation of Ireland officially selected the rowing team that will compete at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer with a record number of crews qualifing for Team Ireland at these Games. Sixteen athletes will compete across seven boats and includes nine Tokyo Olympians and six rowers with Olympic medals. The rowing events occur in Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium, to the southeast of the city, and run from the 27 July until the 2 August. Michelle Carpenter is the CEO of Rowing Ireland and she has been speaking to John Mulligan about the National Championships and Ireland's Olympic Rowers going for Gold in Paris. 

What's masters rowing like in Ireland? Gerry Murphy is Chair of the Masters Representative Committee for Rowing Ireland. A big increase in member registration has happened and masters are now 18% of total rowing registrations. Clubs see the benefit of having masters groups. There are many other regattas offering masters events - they will put in events entries secretaries are generally willing. Many heads of the river - Galway and Enniskillen - which include masters. Overseas guests are welcome in Ireland. Most clubs have some form of masters rowing group - including Skibbereen who started a group recently. Gerry's club, Neptune, started an adult learn to row class and most of the graduates are in the rowing leisure group - there are 70 members now. They do tours and exchanges with clubs in France and Portugal. Innovations in masters rowing. There is a coach education programme. Most clubs want masters because they see the benefits as they volunteer and grow the club. The 1k Classic (Carrick on Shannon) is a new event which Gerry hopes will become the official Masters Rowing Championships in future. Future plans - a proper structure for masters programmes development, coaching development, a co-ordinator for masters in every club who can give guidance. It would be nice to get better equipment as well, possibly dedicated masters boats. External guidance to Rowing Ireland may be possible for masters. We love it and we have a smile on our faces - folks are jealous of us. Gerry encourages people to find their level in the sport and enjoying that.

We look at the challenges facing women in sports, from period awareness to female coaches. To discuss Pat was joined on the show by Aifric Keogh High Performance athlete with Rowing Ireland and also Niamh Murray Co-Founder of Move 2 Be.

We talk to Michelle Carpenter, CEO of Rowing Ireland, on the exclusion of lightweight rowing from the 2028 Olympics.

Excited to share this interview with Adrian Cassidy. Adrian has so much experience to share from rowing and high performance. Adrian rowed for Team GB winning world Championships from junior through to elite, before an accident that ended his rowing career. Adrian shares his come back story from a broken neck to a career as an international rowing coach. His experiences and insights from coaching at Cambridge University Boat Club, then British Rowing, and Rowing Ireland where he was chief coach. Adrian shares some wonderful stories and insights into rowing and how his passion for excellence and helping others to achieve their potential led to the creation of Ludum, specialised performance management software to make life easier for rowers and rowing coaches. As well as setting up the Rowers Conference, to help advance rowing coaches skill and coaching expertise.

Michelle Carpenter CEO of Rowing Ireland gives her reaction to Olympic Gold for Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy in the lightweight double sculls final at the Tokyo Olympics. Listen and subscribe to The Pat Kenny Show on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.      Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.     You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

In this podcast, Dr. Jane Thornton hosts Dr. Fiona Wilson and Kellie Wilkie to discuss their 2021 consensus statement for preventing and managing low back pain in elite and subelite adult rowers. Dr. Fiona Wilson is an associate professor and physiotherapist in the School of Medicine Trinity College Dublin where she is head of the physiotherapy programme. She was lead physiotherapist for Rowing Ireland for 10 years and still practices clinically focusing on managing low back pain. Kellie Wilkie is a Sport & Exercise Physiotherapist with her own private practice in Hobart, Tasmania. She was an Australian Rowing Team Physiotherapist from 2008-2016 and the Lead Physiotherapist in the Rio Olympic cycle. We cover: · What is rowing-related low back pain and how prevalent is it? · What causes rowing-related low back pain, and can it be prevented? · How should rowing-related low back pain be managed? · What this means for rowers, coaches and medical staff Links: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/03/11/bjsports-2020-103385.abstract World Rowing site: https://worldrowing.com/2021/05/11/guide-for-managing-low-back-pain-in-rowers/

0:38 Irish Rowing Qualify Two Boats For Tokyo Olympics 1:48 World Cup II: Sanita Puspure in Action 2:24 200m Record for Rhasidat Adeleke, Nadia Power in action at Continental Tour Gold 4:22 Jenny Egan Misses Out on Olympic Qualification 5:00 Fifth for Natalya Coyle, Improved Rankings for Sive Brassil 6:00 European Championships: Relays Aiming for Tokyo Qualification, World Para European Swimming Championships, Two Finals for Diver Clare Cryan, 10th Place for Tanya Watson 9:10 Carolyn Hayes Striving for Tokyo 9:40 Hockey Ireland take on Scotland, EuroHockey Upcoming 9:55 Olivia Mehaffey in Action 10:20 No Underage Competition for LGFA Players, Cork Speak Out Criticizing LGFA Decision 14:20 Rugby 7s in Action Against France & Great Britain Visit the website https://hersport.ie/ Check out the Her Sport channels Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hersport.ie Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/HerSport.ie/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/HerSportDotIE About Her Sport: Her Sport is a media platform centred on bringing the latest Irish and international women's sports news. Her Sport aims to empower women in sport, inspire more female participation, increase opportunity and level the playing field for future generations. Our objective is to create real and tangible change. Contact us: hello@hersport.ie

In this episode, we are celebrating women on the water. Host Niamh Hayes chats to three inspirational women, all of whom are involved in the sport of rowing. Máire Connolly is a Professor at NUIG. She took up rowing as a medical student in Galway. Her work with the World Health Organisation and UN took her all over the world, and she fell out of the sport as a result. But after moving home some years later, she returned to it as a masters rower. She embraces every opportunity that the sport has given her and chats about why she thinks every woman, no matter what age, should get involved in sport. 17-year-old Alicia Winter has been rowing for two years with Galway RC. She is a para-rower and uses her arms to move the boat and ergometer. She chats about the challenges she faces in the sport, as well as the reasons why she loves it so much and what it has brought to her life. Nuala Lupton is President of Skibbereen RC, the club with the most national championship titles out of any club in the country. She was also part of the very first Irish women's team that competed at a World Championships in 1975. She chats about how she got into the sport, her progression through the ranks, as well as the equality that has always existed in the club. The Rowing Ireland Podcast is powered by Kinetica Sports. www.kineticasports.com www.rowingireland.ie 

Women's Voices in Rowing is a new book edited by Daniela Nachezelova - a former lightweight international from Czech Republic. Joining her are Michelle Carpenter, CEO of Rowing Ireland who features in the book and Lucie Patkova - publicist. Sponsors – Rowing Directory – the place to find a rowing business selling what you need. https://rowing.chat/retailer/ Timestamps to the show 02:45 Background in rowing 05:00 Womens Voices in Rowing - interviews with 14 prominent women rowers. Daniela's rowing library had only 2 written by women. Tokyo Olympics is gender equal and women's voices were missing from the media 08:50 The female experience of rowing is different - but it depends where you live. 10:00 Sport Ireland have invested in women in sport. Rowing has its own issue with a lack of women coaches. 13:30 Why do women's voices need amplification? 19:20 Structural issues in rowing - FISA has done a good job an we are a long way ahead. They pioneered equality and diversity on committees. 23:00 British Rowing have been leaders and there's a network of rowing CEOs who meet up. Daniela says nothing has changed in Czech Rowing in 30 years. Formerly communist countries suffer male dominance and are attached to power. 28:00 Women in collaboration is a skillset which they are better at. 30:00 The change in Ireland was forced by Lottery funding. 34:00 Solutions journalism - through the story you can help to make change 38:00 Are local and social media places for people to find solutions? Absolutely in Ireland, Niamh Hayes connects people across sport with her podcasts. 42:30 Funding club level sport is a challenge - the business model for clubs needs to be reviewed. 45:00 Comm-Unity is a funding opportunity. 52:00 Coach Education programmes continue to be important. Buy the book https://voicesinrowing.com/

Traditionally, NUI Galway have had an outstanding reputation on the sporting front with the performances of their teams and athletes.  That reputation has been enhanced further with the announcement in recent days of their partnership with Rowing Ireland who have now deemed the university a official ‘Rowing Ireland Partner Pathway University’ which will help develop the high-performance programme at the University.  This step is another on the way to making NUI Galway one of the best when it comes to sporting achievement in the country. In a wide ranging and details look at sport in NUI Galway, Director of Sport and Physical Activity at NUI Galway Mike Heskin spoke to John Mulligan about the upcoming partnership with Rowing Ireland and they also looked at the work being done by the University with their Sporting Programmes. 

Daniela Nacházelová learned to row at age 10 on the Vltava River in Prague, Czech Republic. She received a rowing scholarship to Washington State University and collected medals at World Cups and world championships, and spent 15 years chasing an Olympic dream. She fell in love with rowing, but also ended up hating it. Daniela recently wrote and published Women's Voices in Rowing, a book featuring 14 unique women from around the globe. Each woman has claimed victories and medals, and each has their own forceful, empowering stories to tell. Joining our conversation are two of these women: Michelle Carpenter, CEO of Rowing Ireland who has been named three times to the list of Women of Influence on Irish Sport; and Judy Geer, 2x Olympian and part of the owner-operator family at Concept2 and Craftsbury Outdoor Center in Vermont. See the full show notes at www.steadystatenetwork.com/podcast. Join our Patreon community, sponsor the podcast, advertise in the upcoming magazine and submit your art - all on our website! Go Team!

Rebecca interviews Adrian Cassidy, CEO Founder & Olympic Rowing Coach from Ludum Timestamps to the show 01:00 Adrian's background in rowing - former head coach Rowing Ireland, University of London and now CEO of Ludum 03:30 Ludum - Freedom to Coach What Ludum is - an online platform to collect data and comms to manage your rowing squad. Users include Rowing Australia, Germany's national team, Vesta Rowing Club. It allows you to use Heart Rate and GPS data as well as direct links from Concept2 erg workouts aligned via an app and collected into a single dashboard for the coach to review. 05:30 Ludum started as a hobby project to share training programmes and crew lineups and more and more people asked to try it out. During 2020 it was completely rewritten as an app as well. 07:00 Used by elite rowing programmes as well as clubs, the software is adaptable and flexible to suit different needs. Paul Thompson remarked that when you move to a new club it's "Different place, same problems". Adrian is skilled at creatively solving the limitations of each club's environment. Right behaviours are needed for success in rowing. You get the behaviours you tolerate as a coach. Taking on Ludum and starting to use it is a big cultural thing to change - recording data is not something many people do. 12:15 We introduced Crossy's Corner where Martin Cross interviews top rowing coaches and athletes. He interviewed the Sinkovic Brothers and he was so good at talking to people that I asked him to join the team. https://ludum.com/author/mcross/ 14:00 R5 - The Rowers Conference 2021 This is the 5th event - we realised that there is no education about data in rowing. Jurgen Grobler will be interviewed by Martin Cross next Sunday 24th January 2021 at 3 pm UK time. Register at the link https://rowersconference.com/ Jurgen is the most medalled Olympic coach of modern times and he uniquely gives strength and confidence to athletes. 19:00 Ludum LIVE launches! A new feature set in the Ludum app software is that a coach and watch live as his team trains remotely. Watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umv3Wn5709c 29:00 Data in rowing; Why are coaches not confident about data? Data is more than the numbers because a video can be data. The growth in data and people typing numbers into spreadsheets which then isn't used is universal in rowing clubs around the world. 31:00 Data that's useful compared to data that's important is a key concept. For example junior rowers turning up regularly is useful data. An elite programme may be better tracking athlete performance during an outing. It's easy to assume that each athlete did the planned session. But what about those who are ill or injured or those who pull harder than others? They are evidently not doing the same training as the rest of the squad. Using Ludum coaches have insight - and we also support the coach with education and explanations about what the data means and how to interpret it. Data empowers the coach and the athlete. 37:00 Rowing in to the future - what will change? Coaches trust athletes a lot - the sport is coach-driven.The athlete can take control now. During lockdown there will be a bit more individualised training and when groups get back together that will be interesting. Maybe in future the athletes will pick their coach individually and work remotely with them. Athletes need to know in advance what sort of a programme they are stepping into. Funded programmes are often large and competitive. 45:00 Ludum shares expertise and how to's - we look for what people are searching for and we try to answer their questions. Training zones, Monitoring and testing, coaching styles, physiology and more. It's all on the website blog. Contact Adrian Cassidy https://ludum.com/

In Episode Eleven of The Rowing Ireland Podcast, host Niamh Hayes chats to high-performance athlete, Eimear Lambe, about her recent success at the European Rowing Championships, where her love of the sport came from, how a time away from the sport made her connection to it even stronger, and her Olympic experience in 2014. Niamh also chats to ROWfit's Joe Cantillon about how he had to adapt and go virtual with indoor rowing competitions this year, and he spills the beans on the upcoming Irish Indoor Rowing Championships. The Rowing Ireland Podcast is powered by Kinetica Sports. www.rowingireland.ie 

In Episode Ten of The Rowing Ireland Podcast, host Niamh Hayes chats to high-performance athlete, Aifric Keogh. Aifric is one of seven rowers who is currently part of Rowing Ireland's heavyweight women's sweep squad. She recently won a bronze medal at the European Rowing Championships in the women's four - her very first international medal. Although she is one of the original members of the squad, there were a number of times during her rowing career when she believed she wasn't good enough. Aifric fills us in on how she got into rowing first day, overcoming the doubts, the challenges of preparing for an event during a pandemic, and her focus for the coming months. www.rowingireland.ie 

In Episode Nine of The Rowing Ireland Podcast, host Niamh Hayes chats to two of Rowing Ireland's up and coming athletes who both have already achieved tremendous success in their rowing careers. Skibbereen rowing club is known for producing top class athletes and they have done it again in the form of Lydia Heaphy. The 22-year-old won a gold medal at the European Rowing U23 Championships in the lightweight women's pair in September. She then went on to row in the lightweight women's single scull at the senior championships, winning the B final. Hugh Sutton also represented Ireland at the European Rowing Under 23 Championships in September, finishing 5th in the A final of the lightweight men's quad. He had a hugely successful year last year, winning a bronze medal at the World Rowing Under 23 Championships, and then going on to finish 8th at the senior championships. Powered by Kinetica Sports www.rowingireland.ie   

In Episode Eight of The Rowing Ireland Podcast, Niamh Hayes meets two high-performance athletes who are just back from representing their country on the international stage. Aileen Crowley finished 3rd in the women's four at the European Rowing Championships and also qualified the women's pair for the Olympics at last year's World Rowing Championships. Tara Hanlon finished 3rd in the women's pair at the European Rowing U23 Championships & 5th at the European Rowing Championships. This podcast is powered by Kinetica Sports. www.rowingireland.ie

The 2020 Irish Offshore Rowing Championships were held on September 26th and 27th in Portmagee, County Kerry. With seven categories being ran over the weekend, there were heats in four of these and three straight finals on the Saturday, while four finals were held on the Sunday. Host Niamh Hayes met with the organisers, coaches and competitors that were in Portmagee for the event. Powered by Kinetica Sports. www.rowingireland.ie

The EY Women's Hockey League got underway and is set to be the most competitive season yet. Rowing Ireland were represented by one Junior Women's Quad at the European Junior Rowing Championships. Reigning champions Peamount United took one huge step towards defending their WNL title. Serena Williams pulls out of the French Open due to injury. Amnesty International express deep concerns over Ladies European Golf tour to be held in Saudi Arabia.# Read all of these stories and more at www.hersport.ie

Rowing Ireland's women brought home 3 medals out of four events at the U23 European Rowing Championships. Nadia Power broke the U23 800m Irish record. Vera Pauw Named her 23-player squad to take on Germany. Serena Williams is on track to equal the Grand Slam titles record. Caster Semenya lost her appeal against World Athletics. The European Cross Country Championship in Dublin has been cancelled. Yuki Nagasato has signed professionally for a men's team. You can read more about all of these stories and more at www.hersport.ie

In Episode Six of The Rowing Ireland Podcast, host Niamh Hayes chats to four-time world champion and Olympic silver medallist, Paul O'Donovan. Paul talks about starting rowing at the age of seven, training with Skibbereen Rowing Club, winning an Olympic medal alongside his brother Gary and his preparation for Tokyo 2021. Niamh also chats to former League of Ireland footballer Seán Prunty, who is the Business Development Manager of Kinetica Sports. Seán chats about his sporting days, as well as the importance of good nutrition for athletes of all levels. Powered by Kinetica Sports. www.rowingireland.ie 

Episode Five is full of world champions! First of all, host Niamh Hayes chats to Fintan McCarthy, who alongside Paul O'Donovan, won the lightweight mens double sculls at last year's World Rowing Championships. Fintan talks about how he got into the sport, what it was like winning the world champs and how he is targeting Tokyo 2021. This is followed by the person who became Ireland's very first world rowing champion back in 1991 - Niall O'Toole. Niall chats about becoming the country's first full-time rower, how he structured his training at a time when there was nobody to gauge off, and he has some helpful advice for athletes who have another year to go until the Olympics. Powered by Kinetica Sports. www.rowingireland.ie  

In Episode Four of The Rowing Ireland Podcast, host Niamh Hayes is joined by high-performance athlete Monika Dukarska who tells her story about moving to Ireland from Poland as a teenager, how she got into rowing, the highs and lows of her sporting career, the moment she qualified a boat for the Olympics and becoming a world champion in coastal rowing. Niamh also chats to David Hussey about coastal and offshore rowing in Ireland and the upcoming Irish Championships. Powered by Kinetica Sports www.rowingireland.ie 

Episode Three of The Rowing Ireland Podcast features an interview with Katie O'Brien. Katie finished third at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in the women's single scull PR2 event. Katie tells her story about growing up with Spina Bifida, how she got into rowing and what she needs to be able to compete at next year's Olympics. Rowing Ireland's Nutritionist, Leanne Varley, also joins the podcast to chat about how rowers can stay healthy and look after themselves as they start to return to rowing now that restrictions around sport have been lifted. The Rowing Ireland Podcast is powered by Kinetica Sports. www.rowingireland.ie 

In the second episode of The Rowing Ireland Podcast, host Niamh Hayes talks to high-performance rower Phil Doyle. Phil chats about his return to working with the NHS during the Covid-19 pandemic, how he is balancing shift work with training, what he likes to do in his downtime, and how he is preparing for Tokyo 2021. Niamh also talks to Rowing Ireland's CEO Michelle Carpenter about the announcement of three Irish Rowing Championships, which are due to take place later this year. The Rowing Ireland Podcast is powered by Kinetica Sports. www.rowingireland.ie  Music from Free Music Archive, Scott Holmes, Upbeat Party

Welcome to the very first episode of The Rowing Ireland Podcast. Hosted by Niamh Hayes, this podcast will bring you interviews with some of Rowing Ireland's high-performance athletes, as well as news from around the country. In Episode One, Niamh chats to double world champion, and two-time Olympian, Sanita Puspure, about her rowing career, how she managed training at home during the lockdown and what preparations are like for Tokyo 2021. Niamh also chats to Rowing Ireland's Women in Sport Lead, Claire Lambe, about an exciting initiative for female coaches, and we hear about a webinar with Mark Pollock which is taking place on June 24th. www.rowingireland.ie Music from Free Music Archive, Scott Holmes, Upbeat Party

Irish Rowing Podcast Episode 3, hosted by Niamh Hayes In this episode, I speak to Rowing Ireland’s CEO Michelle Carpenter who fills me in on how Covid-19 is affecting rowing in Ireland, including its operations, how it’s affecting clubs and athletes. With the cancellation of many world and Olympic qualification events, how are the high performance athletes dealing with it and what will qualification look like for those who haven’t qualified already. During this time, it is important to look after both our physical and mental health. Below are some useful resources: Indoor rower training plans are available at https://www.concept2.co.uk/indoor-rowers/training/plans-and-resources Take part in the World Erg Challenge http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2020-world-erg-challenge/event-information Rowing Ireland workouts with Kenny McDonald https://www.rowingireland.ie/rowing-ireland-workouts-with-kenny-mcdonald/ Rowing Ireland daily nutrition tips https://www.rowingireland.ie/daily-nutrition-tips/ Sponsors https://www.rowing.chat/sponsors/ https://www.williammahoney.us/pages/rowing-chat-1 Listener survey https://rowing.chat/listener-survey/

In the second episode of the Irish Rowing Podcast, I look back at the Irish Indoor Rowing Championships and we hear from Joe Cantillon who runs the event. I look at how the Irish athletes performed at the recent World Rowing Indoor Championships that were held in Paris, France. It continues to be award season so I do a rundown of the latest winners. I talk about the high-performance trials and how the weather has been affecting many events across the country. There's news about the Irish Rowing Championships and the Irish School Regatta, as well as the new Rowkyo initiative launched by Rowing Ireland. And I look at some upcoming river, coastal and offshore events, as well as a preview of the World Rowing Virtual Indoor Sprints. Thank to to our sponsors, Faster Masters 12 Week Training & Prygl Rowing Camps https://rowing.chat/sponsors http://www.iirc.ie/ https://rowfit.ie/ http://www.wrichparis2020.com/en/ https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldRowingFISA https://www.rowingireland.ie/rowing-ireland-is-launching-rowkyo-in-preparation-for-the-2020-olympics/ http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2020-world-rowing-virtual-indoor-sprints/event-information

That's a wrap! Season 2 of the One Percent Podcast is now in all podcast stores. We pulled together a recap episode for you this week, featuring short clips from some of the great moments in the podcast's second season. We were fortunate to have incredible leaders from across industries, disciplines, and fields share their stories and perspectives this season – and we wanted to share them with you as we wrap up Season 2 and look ahead to the third season. Here are some of the guests and clips from Season 2 featured in this wrap-up episode: Helen McEntee (Minister of State for European Affairs Helen McEntee) on being a woman in politics – and being both Irish and European. Dr Roger McMorrow (Mount Everest summiter and Clinical Director & Consultant Anaesthetist at the NMH) on the beauty and dangers of climbing Mount Everest and a poetic insight on his experience of summiting the roof of the world. Paul Gleeson (performance coach, part time adventurer) on rowing across the Atlantic Ocean and the change in perspective he gained from this experience – and controlling your environment to achieve better mental health. Neville Maxwell (former professional and international rower Director of Rowing Ireland) gave us an insight of what it takes to be a professional rower and training and competing for the Olympics. Brian Mullins (Dublin football legend and Director of Sport in UCD) on the intense and honest training set up of the Dublin team in the 60's and 70's. Sophie Spence (former titan of Irish women's rugby) on the team mentality when Ireland defeated the All-Blacks. We're hard at work planning Season 3 which will kick off in mid-September and would benefit from your feedback and perspective.

Neville Maxwell is a former professional and international rower.  He is currently a Director of Rowing Ireland and  the Chairman of the High Performance Committee. He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics and is a multiple world rowing championship medallist In this episode, we discuss Neville's introduction to rowing, his professional career, experiences at the Olympics, thoughts on retirement and his current position as High Performance Chair and Director of Irish Rowing.

Today we talk to Mark O'Connor from Inclusion Ireland about a disturbing report on how some special needs children are treated at schools.Dr Bernadette McMahon from the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice tells us how some families are struggling to make ends meet. Photographer John Hooton has brought out a new book entitled 'Ireland, the way we were' We get an update from the Kilcumper Graveyards Association and Michellle Carpenter the CEO of Rowing Ireland is encouraging people to come along to welcome home the victorious rowers. We end the show with our weekly movie review from Mark Malone. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, David is joined by Dr. Catherine Norton.  Catherine is a performance nutritionist and registered dietitian and currently works full-time at the University of Limerick, Human Research Institute. She teaches on the BSc & MSc courses there, as well as researching in both, food for health, and performance nutrition.  Catherine is a graduate of DIT / TCD (Human Nutrition & Dietetics) and UL (PhD Nutrition), and an accredited Sport & Exercise Nutritionist (SENr High Performance). Catherine spent three seasons as full-time lead performance nutritionist to Munster Rugby and has also consulted with a wide range of sports disciplines at national, international and Olympic levels. She previously held the Lead Performance Nutritionist role with the swimmers at the High-Performance Centre in UL and with Rowing Ireland. Dr. Norton has also provided nutrition support to both junior and senior athletes with Athletics Ireland, Triathlon Ireland, Inter-County GAA and AIL rugby clubs. Dr Norton's research interests investigate optimising nutrition for athletic training and competition, with a particular emphasis on peri-training nutrition (PTN). She is also involved in research considering appropriate protein intakes (quantity, quality and timing) for the prevention of age related losses in both muscle (sarcopaenia) and bone (osteopaenia). Full show-notes: www.synapseperformance.ie/podcasts/episode66

Assistant Professor Dr Fiona Wilson is a Chartered Physiotherapist in the discipline of Physiotherapy, Trinity College, Ireland. She has over 25 years of clinical experience in the UK, South Africa and Ireland. She has worked with elite and international athletes throughout her career and was Lead Physiotherapist for Rowing Ireland for 10 years. Her research has focused on sport and exercise medicine with a special focus on rowing and back pain and recently in rugby and concussion. She is editorial board member for BJSM and was awarded the prestigious Cochrane Fellowship in 2012. In this podcast Dr Wilson shares wisdom on topics such as: • Managing back pain in the mature rower • 3 common pitfalls / stroke issues to assess • How to assess the rowing athlete • How rowers monitor load / or not • How you can use technology and apps to monitor rowers • How to apply lessons from rowing to managing back pain in all sports and among the general public • Debate on stability and mobility – are planks associated with increased incidence of back pain? 3 previous BJSM podcasts on back pain in sport include the very popular: • Tiger Woods – soon after his 2014 spinal surgery, @PeteOSullivanPT (Prof Peter O’Sullivan) feared for the worst. Was surgery a good idea? Remember this conversation predated Tiger Woods’ plunging down the world ranking. https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/professor-peter-osullivan-peteosullivanpt-on-tiger-woods-back-and-core-strength • Tiger Woods – 2015 update. With @PeteOSullivanPT after a 2nd operation a year later. How helpful is the postoperative MRI scan? https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/test • Dr Kieran O’Sullivan (no relation to Peter above) shares 7 habits of highly effective clinicians who manage back pain. It’s had 23K listens! https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/dr-kieran-osullivan-on-managing-back-pain-7-habits-of-highly-effective-clinicians-part-2-2016

This week’s guest is Dr. Fiona Wilson. Dr. Fiona Wilson is a chartered physiotherapist with over 25 years of postgraduate experience. She is the former Chief physiotherapist for Rowing Ireland with a particular interest in low back pain and injuries in rowing. She is a regular contributor to WorldRowing.com and has authored a few articles in the past year regarding low back injury mechanisms and rehabilitation.   Here is what you will learn in this interview: Fiona Wilson’s Background Potential Pain triggers and injury mechanisms Cyclical loading of tissues FAI (Femoral Acetabular Impingement Sydrome) Why there is a disconnect with the research and high performance in the sport Understanding fatigue and how this changes posture and results in moving from the low back vs. the hips and much more! Show Notes: Dr. Fiona Wilson - Trinity College of Dublin Dr. Fiona Wilson (Twitter) Lower Back Pain - Debunking the Myths Back Pain in Rowing - Update on Current Understanding Low Back Pain in Rowing - What do the experts say? Back Pain in Rowing - An Evolution of Understanding