News Update
#Missing - It's been reported that the search for a Dutch national who went missing on the Sheep's Head Peninsula three weeks ago has come to an end. According to TheJournal.ie, the Irish Coast Guard has concluded its search for…
#ClubNews - Sailing clubs are urged to give their security a rethink as news emerges of thieves apparently targeting boats in storage for their aluminium. The Flying Fifteen Blog highlights a recent incident at Welton Sailing Club on the Humber…
#Search - The Irish Times reports that the body recovered off Sheep's Head in West Cork earlier this week has been identified as 33-year-old Othman Rahmouni, as the search was expected to resume this morning for his friend Roland Deckers…
#rip – The sea, once it casts its spell, will hold you in the net of its wonder forever. A thought that left Dublin native Charlie McGibney spellbound for his 85 years. From a very young age and through all…
#Search - The Irish Examiner reports that a postmortem was due yesterday on the as-yet unidentified body recovered off Sheep's Head in Co Cork in the search for two men missing since the weekend. Meanwhile an extreme weather warning for…
#Search - BreakingNews.ie reports that a body has been found in the search for two men missing on Sheep's Head in West Cork. The remains have not yet been identified, but are believed to be one of two visitors -…
#Floods - Fears that the Shannon and other rivers have no more capacity to absorb floodwaters are on the increase, as State agencies fighting the tides met in Dublin yesterday. According to The Irish Times, the National Emergency Co-ordination Group…
#Drowning - BreakingNews.ie reports that the Garda Ombudsman is investigating the death of a man whose body was recovered from the River Corrib in Galway city some time after he was stopped at a Garda traffic checkpoint. The Irish Coast…
#sunseeker – Is this the biggest boat owned by an Irishman? Sunseeker's largest ever yacht for Irish Formula One mogul Eddie Jordan has been revealed this weekend at Poole Quay in Dorset, the Bournemouth Echo reports. The 155–foot yacht, reported…
#Fracking - Northern Ireland's inland and coastal waterways could be at risk from contamination by fracking activity, warns an environmental group. The Belfast Telegraph reports on Friends of the Earth's poor assessment of Stormont's regulatory powers, with the group citing…
#Killybegs - Various news outlets are reporting that a man has died after a freak accident at a fish processing plant in Killybegs in Co Donegal yesterday afternoon (10 January). The Irish Independent has named the deceased as Kara McCole,…
Varadkar Prioritises Port Transfer, Boat Registration & Safety at Sea for 2014
6th January 2014 News Update
Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Leo Varadkar has published his priorities for 2014 with a number of marine targets on his list. Varadkar wants to transfer of some ports to local authority control, and in changes to the Merchant Shipping…
Registation for Fishing Boats, Jet Skis, Small Fast Powered Craft & Angling Boats in New Bill
23rd December 2013 News Update
#boatregistration – Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Leo Varadkar TD has announced the publication of the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Bill 2013. The Bill is one of the Minister's legislative priorities and is part of an overall objective…
#Missing - The search was set to resume this morning for a man who fell into the sea off Co Clare yesterday afternoon (15 December). As The Irish Times reports, the missing man, a Latvian national, is one of two…
#LauraDekker - A new documentary is bringing the inspirational story of young Dutch circumnavigator Laura Dekker to the big screen. As Scuttlebutt News reports, Maidentrip was produced by a team of female filmmakers who followed the teenager over two years…
#Sailing - "Sailing as we know it is officially over" is the strongest message to emerge from the two-day World Yacht Racing Forum and Yacht Racing Design and Technology Symposium held earlier this week (10-11 December) in Gothenburg. But as…