Christy Bradley is Portrush Lifeboats youngest fundraiser and has carried out yet another fundraising event to pay for crew training! Christy has a special reason to be interested in raising funds for crew training as his dad Gerard is a crew member and Christy's ambition is to be a crew member just like his Dad!On Monday night Christy aged 9 came to a crew meeting and handed ...

This Saturday, 11th September, the Dublin City Council sponsored Liffey Swim celebrates its 90th anniversary as 237 men and 114 women take the plunge, having completed 4 qualifying races on the 2010 Leinster Open Sea Swim Calendar. Dublin's Lord Mayor, Gerry Breen will fire the starting gun for the men's race at 13.30hrs and the women's race at 14.15hrs. The 2.2 kilometre swim ...

It's only out of the wrappers but the new Sun Odyssey 409 has already received a nomination to the 2010/2011 European Yacht of the Year. This nomination comes from the major European magazines from 11 different countries. It goes on show this morning in Cannes and Southampton. The key innovations include the complete rethinking of the deck and sail plan to make this boat, not ...

Hyde Sails has announced the appointment of a new loft in Galway. The only sailmakers on Ireland's west coast, Cullen Sailmakers was established in Galway in 1984. Since then Glendy Cullen (pictured below) has established a reputation for his loft's expertise and friendly service, manufacturing and repairing sails for both modern designs as well as the more traditional side, s...

Mark Fangen-Hall, the coach of the Ireland eight which took bronze at the World University Championships in Szeged in Hungary last month, has paid tribute to UCD men Dave Neale and Finbar Manning, who won their places in a crew predominantly made up of the Queen’s University eight. “I have no doubt in my mind that without the efforts of the two UCD lads we wouldn’t have w...

Ireland's largest residential activity centre, Share Holiday Village is proud to announce that the third annual brites Lough Erne Canoe Rally will take place on 25th and 26th September 2010. This year the event, which attracts paddlers from all over Ireland, is set to have more of an environmental message as SHARE was heavily affected by the Fermanagh Floods in 2009, which som...

As dark clouds continue to overshadow events as home there is some comfort to read about green shoots elsewhere in Europe, especially marine industry green shoots. In Germany, at least the boating industry is highly optimistic about its sales for the coming season, as witnessed by the lavish new boats to be on display from September 18 to 26, 2010 at the INTERBOOT exhibiti...

The arrival this morning of Silver Cloud in Belview, the port of Waterford, represented the last cruise-caller of the season to the port. The six-star rated ultra-luxury 16,927grt cruiseship operated by Italian owned SilverSeas Cruises, had sailed on an overnight passage from Dublin. The 1994 built vessel has only a capacity for 294 passengers. Another cruise caller, Crystal C...

The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) has expressed concerns over a high number of unnatural seal deaths reported in recent years along the County Down coast. Declan Looney, Senior Wildlife Inspector with the NIEA said: "Both harbour and grey seals are species protected under European and Northern Ireland legislation. Between late June and the end of November 2009, 1...

The National Research Ship-time Training Programme today (7th September 2010) announced the launch of the autumn Science@Sea ship-based training courses for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying marine science. The two-day training courses are to be held between the 18th and 21st of November 2010 and offer students an opportunity to work aboard the national research...