Ireland has done it. After mounting multiple teams, considered favourite going into both the 2006 and 2008 events but failing to win either, so the Irish boats Antix, Marinerscove.ie and Roxy 6 today secured the Rolex Commodores' Cup for the emerald isle.
"It is delightful to finally have a chance to get our hands on the trophy," declared Anthony O'Leary, owner and helmsman of the Ker 39 Antix, the Irish team's big boat. "For all three boats, the Rolex Commodores' Cup has been the absolute pinnacle of what we have wanted to do this year. While Antix and Marinerscove have been around, it is a credit to the guys on Roxy because they had a new build and got the boat in the water, and then there were all the attendant things you have to do. Owner Rob Davies, in fairness to him, didn't take a huge amount of persuasion to sign up and make the extra effort required to do it. We owe him a huge debt."David Dwyer and his Marinerscove.ie team were equally ecstatic. "I bought this boat in 2006 and we have been waiting since then for the right time. This time it worked. It was absolutely brilliant."Roxy 6's pro sailor Maurice 'Prof' O'Connell added: "We put in a massive effort and it is nice to have got the reward. Cowes is going to go ballistic tonight!" BKP RORC http://commodorescup.rorc.org/2010-news/ireland-has-done-it.html

Keelboat - Star
The big guns of the Star fleet had been put in the shade all week by the Irish team of Peter O'Leary and Frithjof Kleen. The Sydney 2000 Olympic Finn bronze medalist, Fredrik Loof and his crew Johan Tillander (SWE) had just edged ahead of the Irish yesterday, but O'Leary and Kleen were not to be denied. They sailed a very collected race to come third, and with Loof and Tillander back in ninth, the Irish were golden. Poland's Mateusz Kusznierewicz and Dominik Zycki went home with bronze, fending off the former Laser superstar, Brazil's Robert Scheidt and his crew Bruno Prada
In the Commodores Cup. boats have been returning to Cowes Yacht Haven throughout today, back from the offshore race of the 2010 Rolex Commodores' Cup. With a 2.5x point co-efficient this race had the potential to provide a major upset in the results, but after four days of competition the Irish team hold an even more commanding lead, now up to 29.5 points. Hong Kong has regained second place, this time with a 25-point cushion over the leading French team, which in turn is just 5 points ahead of GBR Red and 15 points ahead of France Yellow in fifth. Hong Kong and Ireland scored equal points in the offshore race with the former's Rockall III winning the small boat class while the latter's marinerscove.ie claimed the mid-sized class

Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2011 will be sailed from July 7-10 next year. The combined clubs regatta is growing steadily since it's inception and is a hugely important fixture for Dun Laoghaire and local tourism. Adam Winklemann chairs the organising committee next years event and promises to put this years modest Cork Week in the shade with 500+ entries