O'Leary retains All-Ireland title

Nicholas O’Leary of the Royal Cork Yacht Club retained his title today at the ISA All-Ireland Sailing championships at Crosshaven in Co Cork.

His father, Anthony O’Leary was second overall, which incidentally was the same result for both of them as at the 2008 Championship.

Both O’Learys are members of the Royal Cork Yacht Club – which hosted the regatta – and the pair provided a battle royal throughout the weekend.

In third place, despite winning the final two races, was Ben Duncan from New Zealand. The Howth Yacht Club member will also take home the GP14 First Timer Trophy.

Nicholas was also the recipient of the First Timer GP14 Award last year as well as the All-Ireland title and prior to that he won the Student Yachting World Championship when representing Cork Institute of Technology in La Rochelle, France.

In other results on the final day of the regatta, Matthew O'Dowd from the Royal St George Yacht Club was crowned the junior champion, while Diana Kissane of Howth Yacht Club claimed the title of girl champion.

The overall results are as follows:

1st Nicholas O'Leary – 2008 All Ireland Champion, RCYC
2nd Anthony O'Leary (father of Nicholas) – 1720 class, RCYC
3rd Ben Duncan – Laser SB3 Class, HYC
4th John Driscoll – Squib Class, RNIYC
5th Paul McMahon – Laser Class, HYC
6th Colin Chapman – National 18 Class, RCYC
7th David Dwyer – ICRA 0, RCYC
8th Tim Corcoran - GP14 Class, SYC