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3rd May 2010

Irish Seal Sanctuary Moves to Courtown

On Saturday May 1st, the Irish Seal Sanctuary made its last journey from Garristown in North Dublin to release three seals in Courtown’s North Beach, Co Wexford. The weekend marked the beginning of a new era for the ISS who are setting up a new head quarters in Courtown. Irish boaters play an important role in identifying and advising the seal sanctuary of stranded or injured seals around the Irish coast. More here

Useful links on this story:

http://www.irishsealsanctuary.ie/iss_via/html/main.htm

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0503/1224269588723.html

Published in Marine Wildlife

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago