RTE marine correspondent Tom MacSweeney presented his 1000th Seascapes radio show this week. In it he asked why the national sail training programme is likely to be abandoned for next year and how some official State thinking appears to be that the programme should be got rid of altogether. The 30 minute programme is available on podcast here
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