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The Irish Fireball Class is hosting an Open Day on November 30th to try and recruit new members to the Class.  The plan is to show the boat set up, have video footage of Fireballs in all their glory and…

#fireball – Twelve Fireballs, up 50% from last week's entry, were part of a record 78-boat fleet for the 2nd round of the 2013/14 Frostbite Series in Dun Laoghaire. An e-mailed survey during the week canvassed opinion from the entrants…

#fireball – Halloween has gone.........it must be Frostbite Time! With the celebrations of ghouls and ghosts gone for another year, the Irish Fireball fleet can embrace the prospect of Frostbite and Sunday afternoon sailing for the next 5 months. A modest fleet…

#fireball – Two regattas, two weeks apart, two provincial titles! The Irish Fireball regatta season closed with the re-scheduled Leinsters being sailed in Dun Laoghaire this weekend. The event, originally down for August, had to be postponed due a lack of…

#fireball – 17 Fireballs hsve convened in Dun Laoghaire for the last regatta of the season, the Leinsters. After 4 races there is a tie at the top of thr leader bosrd between Barry McCartin and Conor Kinsella and Kenny…

#fireball – Noel and Ed Butler enhanced their overnight Fireball lead at the Munsters in Lough Ree to take the title with a 5pt margin writes Cormac Bradley. Adding a 1, 3 to their score of 4pts they had the…

16 Fireballs have assembled in Lough Ree Yacht Club (LRYC) for the penultimate regatta of the season, the Munsters. Four excellent Olympic courses were set by Race Officer John Leech and race wins were shared by Noel Butler & Ed Butler…

#fireball – The 2013 Fireball Europeans in Slovenia came to a close earlier this afternoon when a third race, from the scheduled nine was completed writes Cormac Bradley. The fleet was afloat early today after a short postponement. The view…

#fireball – After two days of scheduled races at the Fireball European Championships in Slovenia with an expectation of six races, we have two completed writes Cormac Bradley. Wednesday was wet and racing was delayed until late afternoon. Thursday was…

#fireball – The decision by the Race Committee to set a windward leeward course for tonight's DBSC race for the dinghies was probably the first overt sign that we were likely to have a difficult night! A practice downwind leg…

#fireball – With the double-header of the Fireball European and World Championships just over three weeks away, the International Fireball Class is in countdown mode to the pinnacle of the 2013 international regatta season in Portoroz, Slovenia writes Cormac Bradley.…

#fireball – Six Fireballs came out for this evening's DBSC Series 3 race but only five of them made it to the start line by the scheduled time writes Cormac Bradley.  Initially all five boats went off the line on…

#fireball – The majority of the eight-boat Fireball fleet in the second round race of DBSC Series 3 will have come off the water having had an entertaining evening writes Cormac Bradley.  I say the majority, for in the blustery…

#fireball – What can I write of last night's Fireball race in Dun Laoghaire? Cormac Bradley reports. It was a pleasant evening, though not quite what XC Weather had predicted. There was a nice breeze when we went out, but…

#fireball – As evidenced by the table below, the 2013 Irish Fireball Nationals was a tight affair with clusters of boats fighting it out right throughout the fleet. The competition between Kenny Rumball and Noel Butler and their respective crews…

#fireball – Kenny Rumball & David Moran representing the Irish National Sailing Club and the Royal St George Yacht Club respectively have won the 2013 Irish Fireball Nationals sailed at Skerries Sailing Club this past three days writes Cormac Bradley.…