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St. Michael's HOR We run two HOR events annually. OBB Head - 3km time trial
Limerick City Head - 5.5km.

St Michael's HOR was inaugurated in 1981 to fill a gap which existed in the season. Commencing with a modest entry of 63 crews in 1981, the Head has grown to be the largest rowing event in the country attracting an annual entry of over 500 crews from all four provinces. The Head is run over a 2.5 mile course from Worlds End in Castleconnell to the bridge in O'Brien's bridge.

Well rowed everyone! Congratulations and well rowed to all crews at our Head of the River on Saturday!Big thank you ROWf...
10/02/2026

Well rowed everyone!

Congratulations and well rowed to all crews at our Head of the River on Saturday!

Big thank you ROWfit for sponsoring our HOR, with each race, clubs gained points towards our generously sponsored vouchers, and towards the Pat Brinn Cup (Best Female Club), the Jim ‘Monty’ Ahern Cup (Best Male Club) and the Christy Hardiman Memorial Cup (Best Overall Club). Points were collected by each crew depending on their final finishing spot within their category.

Congratulations to Cork and Neptune on being awarded the Pat Brinn Cup!

The 4 ROWfit vouchers will be going to Neptune (Best Junior Female Club), SMRC (Best Junior Male Club), UGBC (Best Senior Female Club) and Commercial (Best Senior Male Club)

A massive thank you goes out to our amazing team for organising the HOR, as well as all our fantastic volunteers on and off the water.

For full results go to

SMRC News Well rowed everyone! 9 February 2026 smrc Congratulations and well rowed to all crews at our Head of the River on Saturday! Big thank you ROWfit for sponsoring our HOR, with each race, clubs gained points towards our generously sponsored vouchers, and towards the Pat Brinn Cup (Best Female...

Welcome to all the visiting clubs for today's Head of the River. We hope you have an enjoyable day's rowing.Info includi...
07/02/2026

Welcome to all the visiting clubs for today's Head of the River. We hope you have an enjoyable day's rowing.

Info including timing links here;

SMRC News SMRC HoR Feb 2026 – all information here 6 February 2026 smrc Raceclocker Live TimingRace 1 – Men’s 2- & 1XRace 2 – Women’s 4X & 8+Race 3 – Men’s 2x & 4sRace 4 – Women’s 2- & 1XRace 5 – Men’s 4X & 8+Race 6 – Women’s 2x & 4s We are delighted to welcome all the visi...

Entries for 2026 SMRC HOR close TONIGHT! Have you got your entries in?Looking to get into the 2026 racing season? St. Mi...
29/01/2026

Entries for 2026 SMRC HOR close TONIGHT!
Have you got your entries in?

Looking to get into the 2026 racing season?

St. Michael’s alongside our sponsor ROWfit will be holding our Head of the River on the 7th February and we can’t wait to see you there!

Racing will be held over the usual 3km course, there will be 6 fixed head races depending on boat category, for more details download the prospectus here:
https://smrc.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Feb-OBB-Head-Prospectus-2026-final-220126.pdf - updated Jan 22nd.

The HoR Committee is also thrilled to announce that an additional pontoon has been purchased to allow for extra slip capacity.

04/01/2023

Planning is underway for our Limerick City Head of the River
March 18th, 2023.

04/01/2023
2022 HoR Results
24/10/2022

2022 HoR Results

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Roll up! Roll up! 2022 Head of the River - Limerick City - March 12th. See you there😊
28/01/2022

Roll up! Roll up! 2022 Head of the River - Limerick City - March 12th. See you there😊

18/10/2021

SMRC Head of the River 20212

What a great day we had. 12 clubs participated, almost 200 crews. The weather was perfect and the catering volunteers worked delicious wonders!

Sincere thanks to all the crews, coaches, volunteers, sponsors, suppliers, from the organising committee.

Penants are being ordered and will be sent to the winning crews.

View and download results here

**TOMORROW**HoR 2021 - O'Brien's BridgeLive Timing at
08/10/2021

**TOMORROW**
HoR 2021 - O'Brien's Bridge
Live Timing at

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