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The trip started as it went on, nineteen paddlers, waking at a ridiculous hour all in the name of the glorious sport we call kayaking. With the vehicles packed and ready to go we left from UL with excitement and encouraged by members who had gone before that it’s some...

2016 has definitely gotten a pretty bad name for itself for a lot of reasons, to the point that I've seen books solely about why it's the worst year ever. For those of us lucky enough to be involved in ULKC though, apart from a lack of rain I think there were a lot of...

It was that time of year again. The time of year for the kayak club to make its yearly pilgrimage to the seaside village of Lahinch, Co. Clare. Some say UL kayakers have been going to Lahinch since before kayaks began. Other more learned people say it’s closer to the...

Our adventure begins in Dublin Airport at 5am, Guinness in one hand, Burger King bag in the other, giving Ireland the send-off it deserved. There we were, 20 or so overly-excited kayakers on a plane looking down over the expansive Alpine mountains that we soon hoped...

The University of Limerick Kayak Club’s 40th Anniversary celebrations kicked off on the 9th of April with a trip down the Castleconnell section of the Shannon. The Castleconnell has been a training ground for the UL Kayak Club since its inception and in recent years...

ULKC have matched NUIGs record for most consecutive Irish Kayak Intervarsity titles after winning their seventh title in a row on the 7th of February.   The weekend consisted of paddlers competing in five different disciplines of kayaking. Canoe Polo kicked off the...

Here's a summary of this years January trip to Donegal written by one of our member's, Joe Doyle. ULKC GO UP THE DUFF! On a fine, crisp winters morning the UL kayak club set off on yet another one of our notorious end of semester trips. This year we went to Donegal...

Here's a write up by one of our members Josh Morris about this years club trip to Wicklow. Wicklow Trip 2015               It was a cold, dark evening but spirits were high when we arrived onto the boathouse at 6 o’clock for our weekend long trip to Wicklow!...