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Fri 05 May 2007Irish make annual exodus ROWING: It's hard to think of an equivalent event in another Irish sport. This weekend hundreds of athletes, most of them young, will head off to take part in the KRSG regatta in Ghent, Belgium. It is as if the GAA held their provincial championship finals overseas."You have more Irish here than you do at Irish regattas," quipped the president of Commercial rowing club, Gerry Cantan.