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2025 Munster Blitz opens for registration

We are delighted to welcome schools from all over Ireland to the 2025 Munster Blitz on Thursday, March 6 at the University of Limerick Sports Arena. Our biggest Blitz of the year promises a day of relay racing among more than 1,000 competitors. It will also be yet another opportunity for schools to earn points… View Article

February 3rd, 2025 / Read more

ROWfit #BlitzIt Series Continues

The first blitz of 2025 is here. The Fingal schools blitz will be the second event in this year’s ROWfit #BlitzIt Series. The series standings are tight, with Sutton Park School currently sitting in top spot closely followed by Dominican College Griffith Avenue, CBC Monkstown, and St Tiernan’s Community School. The Fingal Blitz will take… View Article

January 15th, 2025 / Read more

ROWfit #BlitzIt Series

We are delighted to announce that we have partnered with ROWfit for this year’s #BlitzIt Series. The series will see participants from the Get Going Get Rowing Program compete at #BlitzIt events across the country. The competition will run for the duration for the 2024-25 school year. Points will be allocated to every competitor at… View Article

November 11th, 2024 / Read more

Dublin City #BlitzIt 2024

We are delighted to announce the return of the Dublin City #BlitzIt to Trinity College Dublin on Thursday 24th October. We will have over 500 students from schools across Leinster competing across twelve races. This will be the first event in the 2024-25 #BlitzIt Series, and the first opportunity for schools to earn some points… View Article

October 16th, 2024 / Read more

TY Coaching Open for Applications

The TY Coaching Programme for Experienced Rowers in Dublin, Limerick, and Cork is now open for applications. Please read about the programme and apply here: https://www.getgoinggetrowing.com/ty-coaching-programme-for-rowers/

July 9th, 2024 / Read more

Record numbers to compete at Grand Canal Blitz

The countdown is on as Get Rowing prepares to welcome a record-breaking 74 crews to next week’s Grand Canal Blitz in Dublin. May 2 will see 16 schools battling it out in crews of 5 secondary students for Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medals in a wicked-fast 200m sprint regatta for total beginners. None of the… View Article

April 26th, 2024 / Read more

Row to Paris – Catch Me if You Can

We’re very excited to announce our Row to Paris—#CatchMeIfYouCan challenge! Over the next 5 weeks schools can track kilometers from any form of exercise—running, walking, biking, rowing, erging, etc.—and log them daily to our website.  How far do students need to go? We’re going to pair participating schools with one of Ireland’s high-performance rowers. While these women and… View Article

April 9th, 2024 / Read more

1,000 athletes to compete at Munster Blitz

Nearly 1,000 student-athletes will gather on Friday, March 8 for the annual Munster Schools Indoor Rowing Blitz, a day filled with relay races on rowing machines by teams of secondary students from all over Ireland. Students from Munster and beyond, having trained in Rowing Ireland classes at their schools, will put up stiff competition for… View Article

March 6th, 2024 / Read more

Munster Blitz entries now open!

It’s the Get Rowing event of the year—the Munster Blitz will be held March 8 at UL Sports Arena, and you can enter your teams from TODAY! Click here for details and the registration page. We’ll see you at the Blitz!

January 23rd, 2024 / Read more