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Tribesmen Rowing Club, Galway
Tribesmen Rowing Club is the smallest rowing club in Galway City, but one of the most successful. Formed in 1976, the club has regularly been represented on the winners rostrum at the Irish National Championships. But it does not stop there. Oarsmen and women from Tribesmen have represented their country at all levels of international competition including the Home Internationals, the Coupe de la Jeunesse, World Cup and World Championships.

The club was formed in 1976 to fill the gap that existed post-school for those rowers not attending the local university, UCG (now known as NUIG). Galway Rowing Club, which, on the surface of it would have filled that gap was only returning to activity, having been moribund for some years. As a result, GRC was not in a position yet to serve as a base for the development of Senior crews.

The ambition of the new club was to win a Senior championship. The colour to be adopted, influenced by the then-all-conquering New-Zealand VIII, would be black. Not Black and gold or black and white - Black!

Anyone who has sat at the start of a blistering hot day (Rare in Galway) will have questioned the choice of black!

Within a year of formation Tribesmen won the Intermediate VIII Championship. From then until now, no Tribesmen crew would be seen as "soft" or uncompetitive.

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