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With a race starting on the 7th of June, there are a little over three weeks to the start of this year’s edition of the challenging Volvo Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race. So what should boats and crews be thinking…

On the weekend of 6/7th May, a total of 28 RS400s and RS200s gathered at Strangford sailing club in Co. Down for the RS Northern Championships, the second event of the year on the calendar with the furthest travelled from…

Wicklow Sailing Club organisers are aiming high for the next SSE Renewables-sponsored Round Ireland Yacht Race in just over 12 months' time. The 2024 edition of the race marks the 22nd running of Ireland’s premier offshore sailing event and will start on…

Twenty-one Topper dinghy sailors from as far away as Dun Laoghaire and Sligo Yacht Club turned out for last weekend’s Topper Traveller hosted by County Antrim Yacht Club on the north shore of Belfast Lough. The sailors raced in two…

Bangor RNLI crew launched their lifeboat yesterday afternoon (Wednesday, 17 May) when a man fishing in a motor vessel became stranded after his engine failed at Briggs Buoy in Groomsport. The inshore lifeboat was launched at 1.36 pm with Helm…

Writer Niamh McAnally has been shortlisted in the “new women’s sports writing” category in Britain’s 2023 Sports Book Awards. McAnally is the author of Flares Up: A Story Bigger than the Atlantic, which documents how English firefighter Paul Hopkins (55),…

The first full-size digital scan of the Titanic shipwreck lying 3,800 metres down in the Atlantic has been created using deep sea mapping. As BBC News reports, the scan was carried out in the summer of 2022 by Magellan Ltd,…

“Atlantic alert for yachtsman”, read the headline in the Daily Express 50 years ago. The missing yachtsman was the late Commander Bill King of Galway, then 62 years old and on his latest attempt to sail around the world solo…

The State’s first authority for issuing maritime planning permissions will be established on July 17th, with Laura Brien as its chief executive. The Maritime Area Regulatory Authority (MARA) “comes about as part of the biggest reform of marine governance in…

Rosslare Europort says it has “reached a significant milestone” in developing its offshore renewable energy (ORE) hub with approval of a draft foreshore license for final site investigations. It says it “paves the way for its planning application to be…

Dublin Bay Sailing Club Race Officer Tadgh Donnelly set a windward/leeward course of four rounds for the DBSC Water Wag handicap race on Wednesday evening at Dun Laoghaire Harbour. 18 boats competed over eight staggered starts in a light SSE…

The Brexit Off-register Capacity scheme has opened for applications. Off-register or latent capacity is fishing capacity licensed for use but not currently in operation for various reasons, such as vessels being lost at sea, damaged or needing repair/upgrade and up…

Aran Islands RNLI Lifeboat launched last night (Tuesday, 16 May) to reports of kayakers in difficulty half a mile off Kilronan Pier. A member of the public raised the alarm after seeing them in trouble, and Shannon Coast Guard requested…

To mark Invasive Species Week (May 15th to 21st), The Rivers Trust is calling on everyone to play their part in the war against alien invaders, costing not just the loss of biodiversity but hundreds of millions of euros annually…

In an inspiring display of skill, teamwork, and determination, a team of paramedics led by Donegal sailor Steven Doherty emerged victorious in the UK Emergency Services Regatta. This remarkable achievement not only highlighted their sailing prowess but also served to…

The Atlantic Challenge group at Bantry is working on a new development project for a marine centre in the West Cork town which would encourage more young people to become involved in the maritime sphere. The Atlantic Challenge International began…

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Simon Coveney gave the Government's input on the 'Future of Sailing and the Blue Economy' at Royal Cork Yacht Club's annual corporate lunch last Friday. Working on the theme 'Working together to make it sustainable…

A two million euro project to develop a “zero emissions” solution for high-speed passenger ferries is yielding positive results, according to the research team led by Solent University in England. The group also involving Chartwell Marine and Newcastle Marine Services,…

The south coast GK Westerly 34 Slack Alice is on the market.  Priced at €23,700, the well-known Waterford Harbour-based yacht has been in the prizes at the Sovereign's Cup, Cork Week and the ICRAs in both spinnaker and white sail…

The Sisk family are a remarkable tribe around boats as around everything else with which they get involved. But perhaps the most remarkable of them all was John Sisk (1911-2001), who spearheaded the family construction company’s move from being a…