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Two Galway twin brothers aim to become the first sailors with profound non-verbal autism to helm a yacht in the 2025 Fastnet Race. Eoin and Conor Dodd, in their mid-twenties, are on a fundraising drive to raise funds for their…

Just two days after their back-to-back medevac shouts, the volunteer crew at Aran Islands RNLI were tasked on Bank Holiday Monday afternoon (5 June) to launch their all-weather Severn class lifeboat by the Irish Coast Guard as a person was…

Global celebrities, including Irish actor Jessie Buckley, have been photographed naked with fish as part of an NGO campaign against overfishing. The photographs form an exhibition outside the European Parliament until the end of this week. The campaign by NGOs…

Howth Yacht Club’s Lambay Races were sailed on Saturday (June 3rd) as a fully-fledged Open Event for the first time since 2019. Everything about it was on the grand scale – entry, sunshine, competition, tide, and après-sail were all maxed…

A multimillion-pound hybrid newbuild ferry for P&O Ferries Dover-Calais service has arrived in the Kent port for the first time yesterday. P&O Pioneer, the first of twin newbuilds that is joining P&O Ferris fleet, arrived in the Port of Dover…

At the Port of Holyhead, Cunard Line's cruiseship Queen Victoria sailed into the ferryport at the weekend on its first ever visit to Wales. The giant Vista class vessel is one of 81 cruiseships scheduled to visit Welsh ports during…

The CEO of Scottish shipyard, Ferguson Marine, David Tydeman has said that the vessel was working and that operationally everything was in place to take the ferry “down the river” Clyde. The duel-fuel powered ferry and un-named twin known as…

A doubling of cruise ships this season are to call to Foyle Port, the gateway port of the north-west which welcomed its first caller which took place on the 12th May. As the Seabourn Ovation entered Lough Foyle, this marked…

Seaweed farming is in its infancy in Ireland, however, a new strategy, BIM Irish Macro-Algal Cultivation Strategy to 2030, published by Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) this week sets out a roadmap for the development of a sustainable and profitable Irish…

Frank Whelan's canting keeler Opal is seeing routing times of 28 hours to complete Wednesday's Volvo Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race as the County Wicklow ace reassembles his crew for a third campaign at the National Yacht Club. The Greystones…

Track the progress of the 2023 Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Yacht Race fleet below here on the live tracker below when the race starts at 2 pm on Wednesday, June 7th, from Dublin Bay. 43 entries are confirmed entries ranging…

Diverting streams and rivers to irrigate crops or provide drinking water may “significantly extend” the time microplastics spend in river catchments, new research states. Diverted water from rivers disperse tiny plastic particles across farmland from where they may be flushed…

A Co Laois farmer has been found guilty of two breaches of fisheries legislation for deliberate destruction caused at a local river. The defendant was prosecuted for damaging spawning beds and disturbing spawn or fry during destructive gravel removal works…

Two white-tailed sea eagle chicks have hatched in a successful pairing of two adults under Ireland’s re-introduction programme. A male white-tailed sea eagle released in 2008 which had lived alone in east Clare for the past four years, has bonded…

A Co Antrim angler was found guilty of fishing offences and fined a total of £541 at Laganside Magistrates Court on Tuesday 23 May. Aurel Ciurar (23) of Ava Park, Belfast was convicted, in his absence, of five breaches of…

The Loughs Agency recently took its StreamKeepers programme to the Glenelly Valley in Co Tyrone for an event aimed at encouraging people to get involved with their local waterways and environment. The community outreach programme collaborated with the Glenelly Historical…

There were huge congratulations to all 550 international and national participants who conquered the Rás Mór this year, the highlight of Cork Harbour's Ocean to City Festival.  Royal Cork Yacht Club was the centre of attention on Saturday as rowing craft…

Baltimore RNLI was on two shouts within the hour on Sunday evening in West Cork. The volunteer lifeboat crew launched their all-weather lifeboat at approximately 6 pm yesterday evening, following a request from the Irish Coast Guard to provide a…

The Admiral’s Cup is back for 2025 and will be held biennially thereafter by the Royal Ocean Racing Club. Established in 1957, The Admiral’s Cup is honoured throughout the world of sailing as the "unofficial world cup for offshore racing".…

On Saturday afternoon (3 June), Valentia Coast Guard requested Lough Derg RNLI to launch to assist two people on a 15ft speedboat that had suffered damage to one of its propellers and was at anchor three miles south of Terryglass…