Captain

Captain: Helen O’Beirne

Helen is in her final year studying English Studies and History here at Trinity. She is our third female captain in a row, and is extremely proud to be carrying on the club's legacy of female leadership with her all female executive committee with Tara and Edie. 

It's a big year for the club, which has record membership including new beginners and our increasingly successful performance teams. On top of this we have the great responsibility of organising the Intervarsity Championships  which will see over 300 sailors attend four days of racing and social events in Carlingford Sailing Club. 

Helen has had a blast with Trinity Sailing over the years, travelling to West Kirby, Loughborough and London as well as all around Ireland competing for the club and she's pumped to keep it going for herself and club members this year.

With a particular focus of getting more women on the helm and developing the club towards its higher capacity, Helen can't wait to see what the year has in store! 

Contact: captain@trinitysailing.com

Secretary

Secretary: Edie Thorup

Edie Thorup is the club secretary this year. She is a final year BESS student. As secretary, she will manage the club’s administrative side and work with the captain, Helen, and treasurer, Tara, to lead the work of the committee. She will also work closely with Trinity Sport to secure appropriate funding and support from the college. Edie previously served as the club’s Events officer, organising events to bring the club community together. Edie began sailing at the age of eight in Blessington Sailing Club.

Contact: secretary@trinitysailing.com

Treasurer

Treasurer: Tara Coveney

Tara is a 4th year PPES student. She is the club’s Treasurer and executive committee member, and is therefore responsible for the club’s finances as well as assisting with the general organisation. She has been sailing since she was 7 years old and has been a member of Trinity Sailing Club since her first year in college.

Sailing Captain

Sailing Captain: Finn Walker

Finn is a second year Business and Economics student. This year he is working alongside Henry Higgins to bring DUSC as many training sessions and events as possible. His aim is to develop and grow Trinity’s sailing, through organisation of training sessions, theory sessions, events, and team selection. Finn has sailed since he was 6 years old in Italy. If there are any question regarding the trainings, future events, or joining the club please feel free to email him. 

Contact: sailing@trinitysailing.ie 

Sailing Captain

Sailing Captain: Henry Higgins

Henry is a third year BESS student here at Trinity. As Sailing Captain he is working alongside Finn to organise trainings and help sailors in the club prepare for upcoming college events. He hopes to bring Trinity sailing to the forefront of college racing and also to get as many new members as possible into the sport. Henry has been sailing from a young age in Dun Laoghaire and hopes to instil his knowledge on the area to sailors from different clubs and backgrounds.

Sailing Officer

Sailing officer : Tim Norwood

Tim is a 2nd year History and Geography student. He is working with Adam Leddy to make sure that the boats are in tip top shape for both training and events. Tim has been sailing his whole life and enjoys spending time on the water.

Sailing Officer

Sailing Officer: Adam Leddy

Adam is a senior fresh Maths student at Trinity. As Sailing Officer he is responsible for the upkeep of the club’s fireflies alongside Tim Norwood, as well as helping to coordinate training. He started sailing at 10 in Greystones Sailing Club, and started team racing for the first time last year with DUSC.

Communications & Freshers Officer

Communications & Freshers Officer: Cat Grogan

Cat Grogan is a 3rd year PPES student who grew up sailing in Dublin.

As this year’s Fresher’s Officer, she will work hard to ensure that all new members of the club are looked out for and well integrated into the Trinity Sailing family.

She will also serve as Communications Officer, running the club’s social media, snapping shots of all the sailing, and communicating with the club’s members about everything that’s going on.

Contact: Instagram @trinitysailing, or email: trinitysailing@gmail.com

Communications & Freshers Officer

Communications & Freshers Officer: Sasha McCluskey.

Sasha is a second year Dentistry student. This year she will be working alongside Cat Grogan to ensure all members are up to date with event details and socials, as well as being a friendly face for freshers to come to! Sasha has sailed in Baltimore since she was 9. Sasha is also the welfare officer! This means if anyone encounters any issues at all during events you can come to her and she would be glad to help!

Ents Officer

Ents Officer: Jill Murphy

Jill is a second year Computer Science and Business student. As our ents officer this year, Jill will be organising all of our social events for the year ahead including our nights out, general meet-ups and club bonding activities. Jill started sailing in Schull at 9 and has been doing so ever since. She can’t wait to ensure everyone in Trinity Sailing has great craic throughout the year!

Contact: events@trinitysailing.com

Alumni Officer

Alumni Officer: Emily Arrowsmith.

Emily is a 3rd year Film and Spanish student. She’s really looking forward to putting together another great alumni event and hopefully the weather lets us sail for the first time in 3 years! She will also be keeping the alumni up to date on how the club’s doing and what we get up to throughout the year.

Sponsorship & Junior Treasurer

Sponsorship and Junior Treasurer: Natacha Byrne

Natacha is a second year law and political science student and she has been sailing in Dun Laoghaire since she was 7. Her role this year is raising money for the club through gaining sponsorship, as well with working with our current sponsors to achieve their wants and goals regarding publication of their business. This year we have worked with SISK, USIT, Coole Swan, Bobo’s and Grant Thornton. 

If you have any questions regarding sponsorship please contact sponsorship@trinitysailing.com

IUSA & International Officer

IUSA and International Officer: Morgan Lyttle 

Morgan will be organising the IUSA Varsities which is the most competitive event of the year. He is in his 3rd year of Geoscience and is studying in Iceland for a semester on Erasmus. He is sharing the role with Fergal Mooney.

Morgan has been sailing his whole life and is on the committee to play his part in making sailing inclusive to everyone.

IUSA & International Officer

IUSA & International Officer: Fergal Mooney.

Fergal Mooney is this year's IUSA & International Officer. He is sharing the role with Morgan Lyttle. He is a third Year BESS student reading Economics and Political Science. 

Fergal has assumed the roles of the international officer while Morgan has taken the role of being the varsities officer. Armed with his two passports Fergal hopes to bring DUSC abroad to attend international events to show the calibre of sailors that DUSC has to the international community. Along with this Fergal hopes to host an international trip during the year for some team bonding and shenanigans abroad. 

Keelboat Officer

Keelboat Officer: Toby Hudsonfowler

Toby is in his 4th year of Mechanical Engineering. As the keelboat captain he is in charge of all things big boats, including organising a team for match racing events, the turkey shoot and most importantly student yachting nationals, in which we placed 2nd last year. This is his third year on the committee, and will be sharing the role with Marcus Boggan, as the two are going on erasmus for alternate semesters. This lethal duo hope to make big boats, big again.

Freshers Representative

Freshers Representative: Harry Twomey

Harry is in his 1st year and is studying Business and Russian. He is this year’s fresher representative. He is in charge of supporting all the first years and enhancing their experience at the sailing club. Harry feels very strongly about integrating new members and making them feel welcome. He is the best man for the job as a Cork man making his way in Dublin!