🍊🇪🇸 Our 2026 Seville camp has once again been filled with hard work, training and the Spanish sun. This block capped off a strong winter for the squad, highlighted by a strong showing through the nine 8’s competing across both clubs in our annual Seville 5k. A huge marker of the progress being made across the squad.
Read Morgan McElligot’s full account of 1948: Holding of the Thin Green Line – University College Dublin Boat Club & the 1948 Olympic Games
Olympic VIII 1948 – Rules of Training
Irish Olympic Crew 1948 in Action in Henley
Race: Mens 8+
Event: Olympic Games
Season: 1947-1948
Members:
| Tom Dowdall | Bow | Mens 8+ | |
| Morgan McElligott | 2 | Mens 8+ | |
| Joe Hanly | 3 | Mens 8+ | |
| Barry McDonnell | 5 | Mens 8+ | |
| Paddy Dooley | Str | Mens 8+ | |
| Denis Sugrue | Cox | Mens 8+ |