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MAJOR SOCIAL MEDIA IMPACT ON OUR WEBSITE

HUGE INCREASE IN UNIQUE VISITORS THIS PAST WEEKEND As our regular Website visitors will have seen recently, each of our regular NEWS items now has a set of Social Media buttons below the text. A simple CLICK on these sends that NEWS item of your choice straight to your own FaceBook page, Twitter, etc. In other words, this helps us to spread the details very quickly – via a simple …

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THREE QUALIFICATIONS AVAILABLE IN JUST ONE WEEKEND

SPECIAL FEDERATION COURSE FOR DRIVERS ON MARCH 3rd & 4th Mailings were sent to our Affiliated Clubs just one hour ago – and already NINE bookings have been received for this very special weekend on March 3/4 at the Irish Aqua Sports Centre (IASC). The entry is limited to the first 24 applicants cheques received.   This Course is for those members of our Affiliated Clubs who have some prior …

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OUTSTANDING JUNIOR IRISH SLALOM RECORD HOLDER OF 15 YEARS AGO

IRELAND’S JOHN FOLEY Jr WAS A WORLD CLASS SLALOM SKIER     To some of us, 1996 was just a few minutes ago ! Others reading this may still have been toddlers at that time. As we are now making final adjustments to the design our our soon-to-be-released upgraded Web site, one of the tasks was to locate a photo of EVERY current Irish National Record Holder. The good news …

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MAJOR INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR IRELAND’S DAVID O’CAOIMH

MAJOR INTERNATIONAL EVENTS INVITE DAVID TO COMPETE WITH THE WORLD’S TOP RIDERS !       Over the past few weeks, we have reported on the hard training routines being done by our Irish Team Riders both here at home on cold water and in Spain and the USA on warmer water. This is real dedication – and it is paying off in a major way.       With …

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OUR TEAM RIDER PAUL JOHNSTON’S REPORT FROM FLORIDA

IRISH TEAM RIDER PAUL JOHNSTON MAKING GREAT PROGRESS IN THE USA     While most of our Irish Wakeboard Team are putting in long hours on the water at Xtreme-Gene in Spain in preparation for the Europe Africa Wakeboard Championships next month, Paul Johnston headed to Florida to try his best to recover from his 2011 shoulder injury. We have just received this update from Paul and it certainly looks …

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YES I CAN HOUR WEDNESDAY – BEHIND THE SCENES EMMA’S CHALLENGE AT OUR IASC CLUB

ALL EYES WILL BE ON TV STAR EMMA DOYLE AS SHE TAKES ON HER DISABLED CHALLENGE ON SETANTA SPORTS     FOUR PART TV DOCUMENTARY TO BE AIRED ON FOUR MONDAYS STARTING NOVEMBER 7th AT 21.00hrs       Have you heard about the YES I CAN HOUR planned for tomorrow, Wednesday, October 19th ?  It is designed to bring together TV, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter for a very good …

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