Simon Van Lonkhuyen and Jason Briody, during the Liffey Descent, at Lucan Weir Park, Liffey Valley, Dublin, in May. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
“Paddling always went on when we were growing up. It was very visible in our eyes, so there was no reason why you wouldn’t check it out yourself. It was the same in school: it was just always there and available to us. We were always exposed to it,” he says. The racecourse consists of 10 weirs and one portage. It starts within the grounds of the K Club in Straffan, Co Kildare, and finishes more than 30km downriver towards Dublin at the Garda Boat Club in Islandbridge.
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