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The potent J109 design holds four of the top five places in IRC One after the first race of the 2023 Simply Blue Sovereign's Cup off Kinsale. Howth Yacht Club's Indian skippered by Simon Knowles leads from Finbarr O'Regan's Artful DodJer with the defending Sovereign's Cup…

As skipper Daryl Wislang pushed his WindWhisper Racing Team across the line of 37 degrees north latitude at 1004 UTC on Wednesday morning (21 June), his team prepared to turn east towards the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea.…

An Irish postgraduate’s novel solution to removing microplastics from water has landed him on the shortlist for a prestigious European prize. Fionn Ferreira, a chemistry Master’s degree student and teaching assistant at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, has…

The Department of Transport has been advised that a geophysical and geotechnical surveys is being undertaken by Green Rebel Marine in the Irish Sea to assess cable burial on behalf of MDM. The survey work was anticipated to start on…

Portrush RNLI was requested to launch by Belfast Coastguard at 7.15pm on Tuesday evening to reports of a person who had fallen onto rocks between Portrush and Portstewart on Northern Ireland’s Causeway Coast. The all-weather lifeboat was already out on…

Royal Cork Yacht Club's famous vintage Half Tonner Swuzzlebubble has a firm grip of Class Two after the first day of racing at Kinsale Yacht Club's 2023 Simply Blue Sovereign's Cup. James and David Dwyer took two wins in the…

Wexford RNLI rescued two people on Tuesday night (20 June) after their boat ran aground on rocks. The volunteer crew were just completing a routine training exercise when they were requested by the Irish Coast Guard at 9.30pm to go…

Scotland's J122E El Gran Senor has taken the lead of Kinsale Yacht Club's 2023 Simply Blue Sovereign's Cup after the first race of the 17-boat Coastal IRC division. The Clyde Cruising Club entry, which finished fourth overall in 2022's Cork Week…

The German Navy tall ship Gorch Fock has anchored in Dublin Bay and will travel up the River Liffey into Dublin Port tomorrow, Thursday, 22nd June 2023, for a visit to the capital, carrying a total crew of 182, most…

Irish sailing has lost one of its best international friends and loyal supporters with the death at the age of 93 of Piet Vroon, who was the very epitome of the reality that in The Netherlands, we find Europe's leading…

Kinsale Yacht Club's popular biennial Sovereign's Cup series is up and running today (Wednesday, June 21st), on target with 90 entries, and the rock stars of the re-born 1720 Sportsbat Class coming up with a fleet of 25 super-hot boats…

The Irish GP14 fleet made the trip to the southwest corner of Ireland to Tralee Bay Sailing Club in Fenit for the 2023 GP14 Munster Championships on the 17th/18th of June. It was the first time the fleet had been to…

The Royal Ocean Racing Club IRC National Championships is all set this weekend for three days of multiple short-course racing in the Solent. Four individual UK IRC Class champions and the Overall UK IRC Champion will be awarded at the…

A fleet of 420 dinghies will take to north Galway Bay off An Spidéal for the Connacht sailing championships this weekend (June 24/25). The 420 dinghy is an open double-handed class, and many of the sailors are teenagers who then…

As the North Atlantic is beset by a marine “heatwave”, a new climate dataset project aims to inform adaptation to changing weather in Ireland. The “Translate” project involving Met Éireann combines all previous climate projects “of relevance” for Ireland to…

A Co Meath angler has been found guilty of two breaches of fisheries legislation for illegal fishing in an area around the Blasket Islands. Joseph Foley from Trim, Co Meath was observed trolling for protected bluefin tuna off the Kerry…

A Sligo angler has been convicted of a breach of fisheries legislation for illegal salmon angling. Mark Cawley, with an address in Sligo town, was observed in possession of an untagged salmon at Rockwood Parade on the Garavogue River in…

In July, a new classic boat/yacht parade is planned for Dun Laoghaire Harbour. This event is being arranged in association with Dun Laoghaire's Coastival Festival, a week-long series of events and activities that culminates in the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta.…

Ireland's top hope at the SB20 Worlds is up to seventh overall after four races sailed in the Netherlands, where the regatta saw a change in the overall leader on day two. Michael O'Connor, Davey Taylor, and Ed Cook sailing…

Nobody will be breaking any records on Tuesday (20 June) in The Ocean Race. Light winds mean speeds are still modest for both IMOCA and VO65 fleets as they slide down to the south along the west coast of the…