70th Anniversary garden party
Dunrovin Launch Day June 25th 2022
IWAI HQ Dunrovin Official Opening Saturday June 25th marked International Day of the Seafarer. It is very fitting that this date also marked the official opening of IWAI HQ Dunrovin. While the weather was not wonderful it did remain largely dry for this most significant event in IWAI’s history. The official opening of [...]
Key Handover by RNLI Regional Estates Manager
Speech by IWAI President on acceptance of the key for Dundovin from RNLI On November 26th, 2020, 16 months ago, Owen Medland RNLI Lifesaving Lead and I virtually turned the sod on Dunrovin, in Clogherhead, and at the Grand Canal 12th Lock respectively. I am honoured as IWAI President [...]
Dunrovin key handover Vice President speech
Key handover speech by IWAI Vice-President It is such a pleasure to stand here today on this, the penultimate stage of what has been a long and sometimes stormy journey for our Association. This collaboration with the RNLI is the ultimate testimony to the amazing generosity of the Rice family and their love [...]
Dunrovin Key Handover speech by President IWAI
Key Handover speech by President IWAI Dunrovin, IWAI HQ was first spoken about almost five Presidential terms ago. To put that in perspective it is 12-14 years since the idea of establishing a permanent home for IWAI on the Dunrovin site was discussed during Paul Garland’s tenure as IWAI President. Through the terms [...]
Key Handover Speech by Dunrovin Development Committee Chair
Key Handover speech by Chairman of the Dunrovin Development Committee We are here today at Dunrovin the ancestral home and birthplace of the IWAI to take possession of the keys of the new Dunrovin IWAI HQ building, events area and upgraded extensive grounds. A momentous day in the IWAI history and marks the [...]
RNLI hands over the keys to Dunrovin
RNLI hands over the keys to Dunrovin, Inland Waterways HQ An official key-handover ceremony took place in Coosan between the RNLI and the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland (IWAI). The RNLI built the new permanent Lough Ree Lifeboat station and the new Dunrovin IWAI HQ on an IWAI site at Coosan. A [...]
INAUGURAL WRITER IN RESIDENCE FOR IRELAND’S INLAND WATERWAYS
INAUGURAL WRITER IN RESIDENCE FOR IRELAND’S INLAND WATERWAYS I INAUGURAL WRITER IN RESIDENCE FOR IRELAND’S INLAND WATERWAYS Ireland’s inland waterways now has an inaugural Writer In Residence: Erin Fornoff, a poet, writer, and performer, has lived on a fifty-five-foot canal narrowboat on the Grand Canal for the past three years. Erin Fornoff published a [...]
Covid-19 – IWAI Guidance – 3rd September 2021
Covid-19 - IWAI Guidance – 3 September 2021 We continue to advise all members to heed the advice from the relevant authorities and to follow the public health guidance as determined by the governments in both jurisdictions In Northern Ireland the information can be found at https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/coronavirus-covid-19-regulations-guidance-what-restrictions-mean-you In the Republic of Ireland up to [...]
Athlone Mayor tours Dunrovin
Athlone Mayor tours Dunrovin The IWAI President Alan Kelly welcomed Mayor Aengus O’Rourke on a guided tour of Dunrovin, located on the shores of Lough Ree in Coosan, to view the build progress of the new IWAI clubhouse and RNLI lifeboat station IWAI President, Alan Kelly, said “The local authorities in Westmeath have been [...]