Dublin Diving Club Closure
On the 15th of August 2011 an EGM was held at the Roselawn Inn in Blanchardstown. At this meeting a motion to close down Dublin Diving Club was once again put forward to the members in attendance. This came after months of hard work in trying to keep the club going, numerous meetings with club members, NAC management & Swim Ireland and the unsuccessful search for a viable solution for the future of the club. With that, all members present voted (reluctantly) to close down the club with no other available option in sight.It was also agreed at this meeting that any remaining funds that the club had would be used to help pay off some of the outstanding debts. This would only happen after all government taxes etc were paid.
We would like to offer our sincere apologies to any members that had paid for lessons but were subsequently unable to complete these lessons. Unfortunately, due to the financial difficulties we found ourselves in, it is just not possible to issue refunds to these members. Again, we apologise for this.
Dublin Diving Club was established in 2004 and did a tremendous amount of work to push the sport of diving in Ireland forward. The loss of the club will be a huge blow to the sport in this country but we hope that all those involved in the club will continue to stay involved in the sport. For anyone interested in continuing to dive we suggest you check out Shamrock Diving or the NAC Diving Academy.
We would like to thank everyone that has ever dived with us, our fantastic coaches (Ricardo Gutierrez, Vladyslava Shapoval, Dave Linehan, Maeve O'Callaghan, Marie Ahern, Jennifer Barry, Andrew Gaw, Sean Smithers, Francesca Hew & Rathe Hollingum), the volunteers that worked extremely hard on the various committees over the years (especially Aisling Murray Daly, Rathe Hollingum, Hilary Murray, Erica Swift, Viktoria Horvath, Dave Linehan, Edward Golding, Alison Golding), all of the parents/guardians and friends that consistently supported us, the board of Swim Ireland, the members of the National Diving Committee, the O'Callaghan, McManus & Hew families, Sinead Sheils, Rosemary Melia, Dorothy Gibson, Dublin City Council and anyone else that has ever taken an interest in our club or helped out in any way.
(So sorry if we've left anyone out - there have been so many...)
It is such a shame that the club cannot continue. It has been a very fun couple of years (as well as a lot of hard work) and we hope that everyone has enjoyed their time with Dublin Diving Club.
Thank You.
