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With just over three weeks to go to the inaugural RS Fest hosted by Blessington Sailing Club incorporating the RS200/400 National Championships, the RS Feva Nationals, RS Aeros & RS Teras, we thought it would be good to get a…

Foynes Yacht Club Commodore Bev Lowes has presented a cheque for €2,100 to the RNLI raised at a table quiz held earlier in the year. The cheque presentation was made on behalf of Foynes Yacht Club during its Commodores Day on…

Lord Nelson, the former flagship tall ship of the Jubilee Sailing Trust, has been put up for sale by online auction. Global advisory and investment firm Gordon Brothers was last October appointed as exclusive selling agent for the tall ship…

A new ten-year national policy for islands promises to give increased grants to turn vacant or derelict buildings offshore into long-term homes. The plan, entitled “Our Living Islands”, includes 80 commitments to improve housing and water infrastructure and better access…

D2D Race Wednesday 4 pm - In Dublin Bay’s increasingly sunlit nor’easterly breeze this afternoon, the pre-start positioning of the 43-strong fleet had barely got itself in order and away with the 14:00 hrs start of the biennial National Yacht…

The UK Cape 31 National Championship at the Royal Lymington Yacht Club is set to begin on Friday, featuring the largest fleet to date.  The Royal Lymington team is hosting the class for the first time, and with 26 teams…

Leave No Trace Ireland — Ireland’s only outdoor ethics programme, which promotes the responsible use of the outdoors — has launched its fourth national awareness campaign urging the public to enjoy our inland waterways, coastal areas, beaches and other outdoor spaces…

Over the last few weeks, the Loughs Agency’s education team have been busy informing and educating pupils and teachers within the Foyle and Carlingford catchment areas about our waterways. Education officer Michael Cosgrove made several visits to St Mary’s College…

There is consensus it will be a fast one, but much debate about what type of boat will win this afternoon's 30th-anniversary IRC handicap Volvo Dun Laoghaire Dingle Race. One theory emerging from last night's pre-race briefing at the National…

The role of art and culture in re-imagining the future of port cities is the theme of an online Cork CityLabs seminar on June 7th. In the Cork context, Cork Docklands is set to be Ireland’s largest regeneration project which…

Baltimore RNLI responded to a mayday call earlier this afternoon.  The volunteer lifeboat crew launched their all-weather lifeboat at 2.55pm this afternoon after the Irish Coast Guard picked up a mayday call from a yacht with five people on board…

Thousands of international energy and marine engineers, roboticists and scientists among others are attending the global OCEANS 2023 conference hosted at University of Limerick this week in association with the Marine Institute, IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society and the Marine Technology…

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…