Shannon Estuary and River
Shannon Foynes Port Company is hiring for the position of compliance executive. This full-time permanent role will report directly to the corporate and regulatory assurance officer with a base located at the company’s head office in Foynes, Co Limerick. The…
Conor O’Brien Two Year Saoirse Circumnavigation Centenary Celebration Now Well Under Way
11th July 2023 Conor O'Brien
A hundred years ago on this day, Conor O’Brien of Limerick’s 42ft own-designed ketch - newly-built by Tom Moynihan of Baltimore with some of the West Cork shipwright’s small but very effective hull shape improvements - was well into a…
Carrigaholt's Shannon Estuary Festival to Celebrate Links of Sea and Land
4th July 2023 Shannon Estuary
The naturally-sheltered and historic little port of Carrigaholt on the south shore of the Loop Head peninsula in far southwest County Clare is where sea and land and the outer Shannon Estuary colourfully interact to provide a unique sense and…
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…
€3,000 and Counting for Foynes Yacht Club Darkness Into Light Charity Sail
16th May 2023 Shannon Estuary
Foynes Yacht Club on the Shannon Estuary continues to receive donations ten days after completing its charity Sail for Darkness into Light. "To date, we have collected nearly €3,000, but donations are still coming in, so the final figure will be…
Killian Reidy Wins Foynes Yacht Club 'Chill' Dinghy Series on the Shannon Estuary
4th April 2023 Shannon Estuary
Foynes Yacht Club's March Chill Series came to an end last Sunday on the Shannon Estuary, with the host club's Killian Reidy in first place in the Doyle Shipping Group-sponsored event. Second was Fionn McGibney of the neighbouring Tarbert Island Maritime…
Ireland’s Conor O’Brien Circumnavigation Centenary Celebrations Feel Like Fantasy Fulfilled
1st April 2023 W M Nixon
Let us imagine that you are both an enthusiast for Conor O’Brien (1880-1952), the Shannon Estuary’s great pioneering voyager, and that you are also one of those number-crunchers who enjoy calculating on what particular day significant anniversaries will fall in…
Kilrush Skiff Sailors Discover Dublin Bay Water Wags Have Become Icons Of France's Morbihan Classics
27th February 2023 Water Wag
The St Ayles skiff Ealu, new-built by Seol Sionna in Kilrush, has been entered for this year's edition of the vast and deservedly legendary Semaine du Golfe for traditional and classic boats at the Morbihan in Southern Brittany from May…
Conor O'Brien Book Donated to Foynes Yacht Club as €1,000 Raised for RNLI at Presentation Night
20th January 2023 Conor O'Brien
Following Vincent Murphy's presentation on the life of circumnavigator Conor O’Brien at Foynes Yacht Club on the Shannon Estuary last Friday evening, Professor Patrick Frawley, a member of the Club, and a native of Foynes donated an unedited version of one of…
Foynes Yacht Club's annual RNLI Quiz has raised €710 for the lifesaving charity. The quiz winners were the Foynes Yacht Club Sailing Instructors; Mary McCormack, Amelie Brogan, Bev Lowes (Commodore), Isabel O’Shea, and Sarah Guina. Tonight, the Shannon Estuary club will hear…
Foynes Yacht Club on the Shannon Estuary welcomes Vincent Murphy on Friday evening, 13th January, at 7.30 pm, to give a 100th-anniversary presentation on the life of the late circumnavigator Conor O’Brien. In 1923-25, O'Brien became the first amateur skipper…
Royal Western of Ireland Yacht Club of Kilrush Returns to Sydney-Hobart Podium
1st January 2023 Sydney to Hobart
It's seventeen years since the Royal Western of Ireland YC of Kilrush on the Shannon Estuary was represented on the Sydney-Hobart Race Prizewinners Podium. Back in 2005, Ger O'Rourke with his then-new Cookson 50 Chieftain RWIYC took an impressive first…
Shannon Foynes Port Welcomes Government's Vision for Estuary's Potential in Offshore Renewable Energy and National Transport Hub
14th December 2022 Shannon Estuary
The Shannon Foynes Port Company has welcomed the backing by the government of the Shannon Estuary as a premier location for offshore renewable energy in addition as a transport hub for Ireland. Tanaiste Leo Varadkar on Monday published the interim…
When you sail west past Mizen Head in the deep south, or Malin Head in the far north, you know you’re getting into the real Atlantic territory, where they do things differently afloat and ashore. For although the hundreds of…
The ESB and the Shannon Airport Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore the development of a “hydrogen lighthouse” project in the environment surrounding the airport’s site, on the Shannon Estuary. The project aims to explore the…
Work is to start at the Shannon estuary Port of Foynes of the first phase to reopen the railway line to Limerick which is to carry freight but also the possibility to return a passenger service. To mark the reopening…
