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BBC Radio 4 News coming to Moville on Tuesday

Posted Friday, August 15, 2008

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Moville Rowing Club

BBC Radio News are coming to Moville on Tuesday evening to record a programme on the Moville Rowing Club and its activities.

They are going to go down to McDonald's boatyard in Greencastle first to do some recording there and then after that they'll take the short trip down to the old pier and slipway in Moville to interview boat club members.

Summer Days

Moville has had a long tradition of punts.

Indeed, my father, Gerry McLaughlin senior, told me that he and other youngsters of his age practically spent the summer on punts in the Foyle.

He said that when he was in his late teens and early twenties they used to fish for herring with nets in them by The Style and off the River Row.

He said that sometimes the boat was so full of herring that water was almost coming over the top of the boat.

Long Tradition

Moville and Greencastle have a long tradition of making and using that style of punt and the Dronheims too.

Moville Rowing Club, which started last year, is getting Movillians back into the water in the traditional punts.

Of course, they cost a bit more than they did in my father's day.

Sixty years ago they used to cost £1 per foot and as they were usually about 16 feet that was a total cost of £16.

Nowadays they would set you back about €6,000.

Fundraising

Moville Rowing Club are having a second fundraising quiz in Rosatos on Thursday night starting at 9:30pm.

The last one was great craic and it should make a good end to the summer, before the children go back to school and parents find it more difficult to get out on a weekday evening.