A multimillion euro contract to decommission one of the State’s largest gas fields was won to a division of the Stena Group which includes the large ferry operator.  The move comes after the Government earlier this year, as the Irish Times…

Remarkable video of basking sharks engaging in what’s believed to be courtship behaviour has been captured by drone off Co Clare. As RTÉ News reports, members of the Irish Basking Shark Group (IBSG) shot the footage of nine sharks swimming…

The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group has conformed the first validated sighting of a fin whale off Co Donegal. Liz Morrow captured images of the solo large whale in Donegal Bay off Slieve League earlier this month, estimating it to…

It has emerged that the deadly mass stranding of bottlenose whales in Donegal was preceded by two live strandings in the Faroe Islands two days prior. And it’s led experts at the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) to suggest…

Specialists from Queen’s University Belfast are Donegal bound this week on a mission to help preserve the legend of Bád Eddie, as the Belfast Telegraph reports. The decaying wreck of the fishing boat has become an iconic part of the…

An art project involving multiple collaborators and many years in the making will soon invite the public to connect, both in person and online, with one of the last unknown spaces on earth — the ocean wilderness. Aerial/Sparks was created…

Co Antrim’s famous coastal path at The Gobbins is set to reopen next week on Tuesday 1 September. months after it was closed in the initial wave of coronavirus restrictions in Northern Ireland. As RTÉ News reports, the cliff path…

The challenges for the economies of Ireland’s offshore islands in a “post-COVID world” will be discussed with a number of contributors at a “virtual summit” next Wednesday (Sept 2). Comdháil Oileáín na hÉireann, the Irish Island Federation, is supporting the…

More details have been revealed regarding the Virtual Island Summit taking place next month from 7-13 September. As previously reported on Afloat.ie, some 140 ambassadors representing 10,000 islanders will take part in the summit that will discuss the many common…

One of the victims of a deadly mass stranding of bottlenose whales in Donegal last week has not reappeared, according to Highland Radio. Seven of the marine mammals died in the biggest mass stranding of its kind on record in…

110 years ago Robert Lloyd Praeger brought a group of eminent European scientists to Clare Island to map the flora, fauna, geology and archaeology of the small, exposed Atlantic island off the coast of Mayo. The Royal Irish Academy’s New…

It was a most unusual callout for Fenit RNLI yesterday evening (Tuesday 25 August) as they were tasked to a dolphin in the shallows near Fenit Pier in Co Kerry. Locals out for a stroll in blustery conditions that trailed…

Invasive chub have been confirmed in the River Inny in Longford, according to Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI). A single fish was caught on rod and line at one of a number of spots where IFI staff recorded possible sightings following…

The Army could be employed to euthanise beached whales and other marine wildlife that have no prospect of being refloated, the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group suggests in its draft protocol. As the Irish Independent reports, the proposal is part…

A government department has announced a consultation process for Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) which will be open until 18 September. As the GreenNews.ie writes, the announcement by the Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage is in line with the…

Seven northern bottlenose whales have died in what’s been described as the largest mass stranding of its kind in Ireland. The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) confirmed the deaths to RTÉ News after the incident was reported on Rossnowlagh…