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Irish University Team to Compete at FISU World Sailing Championships on Lake Garda
3rd June 2024 Youth Sailing
University College Cork (UCC) will compete in the FISU world sailing fleet racing championships on Lake Garda, Italy, later this week. UCC was selected to represent Ireland after the Irish University Sailing Association (IUSA) completed a 'rigorous' selection process. The…
With no race wins but five results in the top four, Dubliners Sean Craig and Stephen Boyle proved consistency pays at Howth Yacht Club on Sunday with overall victory by a single point at the 34-boat GP14 Leinster Championships. Royal North Of…
On Sunday, the 2nd of June 2024, Tramore RNLI were called into action following reports of a person in difficulty in a small inflatable dinghy off Tramore beach, near the Ladies slip. The alert was raised by a concerned member…
Lough Derg Lifeboat Launches to Find Vessel That Reportedly Glanced Off Rocks
2nd June 2024 RNLI Lifeboats
On Saturday afternoon (1 June), Valentia Coast Guard requested Lough Derg RNLI lifeboat to launch to locate, assess and escort to safe harbour a vessel that a member of the public reported had made contact with rocks at Ryan’s Point.…
Marine Notice: Boulder Clearance and Pre-Trenching for Celtic Interconnector Project
2nd June 2024 News Update
The Department of Transport has been notified by Asso.subsea that they will be performing boulder clearance and pre-trenching works on behalf of Nexans as part of the Celtic Interconnector Project. The works will be located at various points along the…
Kish Offshore Wind Ltd and Bray Offshore Wind Ltd are conducting site investigation operations and geotechnical surveys on the Dublin Array offshore wind farm project site and associated Export Corridor Route (ECR) off the coast of Dublin and Wicklow. These…
Youghal RNLI’s volunteer lifeboat crew were requested to launch at 2.48pm on Friday afternoon (31 May) to reports of two children on an inflatable toy craft that was blown out to sea off the Strand beach in East Cork. The…
Five-Peak Challenge in 72 Hours In Memory of Late Irish Coast Guard Volunteer Caitriona Lucas
2nd June 2024 Coastguard
Late Irish Coast Guard volunteer Caitriona Lucas will be remembered when three mountaineers tackle the five highest peaks in Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales over a three-day period this month. As The Sunday Independent reports, the team for the fourth…
France, Britain and Norway Search for Russian Submarine off Irish West Coast
2nd June 2024 Naval Visits
France, Britain and Norway sent military aircraft to the west Irish coast to search for a Russian submarine last week. As The Sunday Times reports, the aircraft included a French Bréguet 1150 Atlantic plane which flew off the Clare coast,…
Dublin Bay Sailing Club's sixth AIB Saturday race of the 2024 season was sailed on June 1st in light to medium easterly winds on a sunny Dublin Bay. In a seven-boat turnout in IRC One, under Race Officer Barry MacNeaney,…
Colm Bermingham of Howth is Afloat.ie "Sailor of the Month (Inshore)" for May
1st June 2024 Sailor of the Month
Owner-skippers like Colm Bermingham with his Elan 333 Bite the Bullet are the backbone of Irish sailing. Over the years, he has defined his area of interest in racing, and then campaigns it to the uttermost, crewed by friends who…
Dalin Back on Top in New York Vendée-Les Sables d’Olonne Solo Race to France
1st June 2024 Vendee Globe
After being hampered by small technical problems at a critical point on the outward race to the USA, French skipper Charlie Dalin would dearly like to be first back to Les Sables d’Olonne at the conclusion of the New York…
The Courtmacsherry All Weather RNLI Lifeboat "Val Adnams" was called into action at 5.04 pm on Saturday to assist a 25ft pleasure boat in distress off the Seven Heads coast in West Cork. The pleasure boat had issued a "Mayday"…
A Connemara camping and caravan site overlooking Omey island has been awarded gold level certification by the Sustainable Tourism Network (STN). Clifden Eco Beach Camping and Caravanning Park is currently the only campsite in Ireland to hold this certification, STN…
Five young chefs have been selected for the 2024 Taste the Atlantic Young Chef Ambassador programme. The five ambassadors will embark on a four-month programme to familiarise themselves with Ireland's "premium seafood", and the people who produce it along the…
A new monitoring programme for harvesting King Scallops on the Irish coastline will come into effect this weekend. The Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA), says that from June 1st there will be increased sampling of whole scallops and more toxins will…
A Scottish fishing skipper has been fined €17, 500 in relation to breaches of fisheries legislation in Irish waters. Jonathan Bellany, with an address in Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom, was also ordered to forfeit €26,888.56 from the value of the catch…
Some 200 craft will participate in the 28 km-long Ocean to City or "An Rás Mór" event in Cork harbour on June 8th. Organisers Meitheal Mara have appealed for volunteers for the event, with a variety of roles available including…
Tributes have been paid to leading west of Ireland shellfish farmer Rainer Krause who has died in Co Galway. Krause, who was well known in Kinvara, was nicknamed “the German” after his country of origin. As an inshore fisherman and…
This weekend, the GP14 Leinster Championship fleet comes to Howth Yacht Club. This is the third event of the season and the first on the sea, with both the Munsters and the O'Tiarnaigh Challenge held on Lough Derg and Owel,…
