Wavelength Podcast with Lorna Siggins
How to Make a Rudder Mid Atlantic With Restaurateur Jamie Peaker
23rd February 2026 Wavelength Podcast
Galway-based adventurer and restaurateur Jamie Peaker has driven across Africa, he has travelled extensively in South America, he has completed the Trans-Mongolian Express, and he and his wife Nina have raced by rickshaw from Nepal to southern India. His sailing…
Wavelengths: The Coast of Cork- A View From Above With Dennis Horgan
4th December 2025 Wavelength Podcast
A minke whale breaching off Cape Clear, a multihull yacht heading for the rock in this year’s Rolex Fastnet Race, Shannon’s Rescue 115 helicopter training with Courtmacsherry lifeboat.. just some of the stunning images taken by aerial photographer Dennis Horgan for…
“It’s been a long time coming, but it’s been fantastic..” The words of round-Ireland sea swimmer Daragh Morgan (27), who is on the home stretch of his circumnavigation around Ireland. Weather permitting, he hopes to reach Galway’s Blackrock Tower, where…
Dun Laoghaire Harbour Operations Manager Tim Ryan on Its Masterplan
22nd April 2025 Dun Laoghaire Harbour News
Imagine a spiralling viewing platform taking in 360 degrees of Dublin Bay and its backdrop, mounted on the old buffer plates and catwalks used by the former Stena high-speed ferry. That’s one of many ideas in Dun Laoghaire harbour’s masterplan,…
RWE Ireland Committed to Dublin Array In Spite of Global Turbulence
2nd April 2025 Power From the Sea
German multinational RWE says it believes there will be an oral hearing into its planning application for the Dublin Array offshore wind farm. However, if the application is approved, the company believes the project offers a substantial opportunity for Dun Laoghaire…
"Plan Your Swim, Swim Your Plan" - Guinness World Record Holder Nuala Moore's Safety Advice for Sea Swimmers
20th March 2025 Wavelength Podcast
Nuala Moore, from a Kerry fishing family, is a Guinness world record holder and medal winner in marathon and ice swimming. Among her many achievements is participation in a relay swim around Ireland, she has swum in the Bering Straits…
MARA Chief Executive Laura Brien on Leading the State's First Marine Planning Authority
19th February 2025 Wavelength Podcast
It’s 18 months since MARA, the State’s first marine planning authority, set up shop in Wexford, led by chief executive Laura Brien. How is it getting on in relation to offshore wind planning, and is some of the new Maritime…
"Tension Between Competitive Sport and Safety" Reflected In Investigations - MCIB Chair Claire Callanan
9th January 2025 Wavelength Podcast
Failure to follow basic safety such as wearing a lifejacket or personal flotation device is still an issue in incidents in Irish waters, according to the Marine Casualty Investigation Board (MCIB). It has also noted in its most recent annual…
Capt Robert McCabe on the Joys and Challenges of the Seafood ORE Working Group
12th December 2024 Wavelength Podcast
If there’s one thing that stakeholders in the race to develop offshore energy agree on, it’s the need for more data. Master mariner Capt Robert McCabe, who spent much of his career at sea with the Commissioners of Irish Lights,…
BIM Chief Executive Caroline Bocquel Outlines Need for "New Vision" for Seafood Sector and Challenges and Opportunities Posed by ORE
7th November 2024 Wavelength Podcast
Early last year, BIM’s newly appointed chief executive Caroline Bocquel told the offshore renewable energy sector that it must improve its communication with the Irish fishing industry. Speaking at the second national seafarers’ conference, she told offshore wind developers that…
Unseen footage of basking sharks filmed from the seabed below their extraordinary mating ritual, and orca whales in pursuit of herring are among images which international marine photographer Nigel Motyer will be showing in Dublin this week. “An Odyssey of…
GPS "Can Be Switched Off At Any Point" and We Are "Closer Now Than Ever" - Former Irish Lights Mariner Capt Harry McClenahan
23rd September 2024 Wavelength Podcast
Satellite navigation systems such as GPS can be switched off at any point, and “we are closer to it now than ever”, Captain Harry McClenahan says. The recently retired master mariner with the Commissioners of Irish Lights says that lighthouses…
Lifeguard, Fisherman, Diver, Restaurateur and Raconteur Manuel Di Lucia - This is Your Life
2nd September 2024 Wavelength Podcast
“Sacked lifeguard saves life at sea…” This and other stories relating to Kilkee’s Manuel di Lucia are recorded in his new biography, which is appropriately named You Only Live Once. Not only has the former Co Clare town mayor taught…
The Tiny Plankton and Its Big Potential to Address the Triple Planetary Crisis - Vincent Doumeizel
15th August 2024 Wavelength Podcast
What do the Cliffs of Dover, the pyramids of Giza and oil have in common? The answer is plankton, which is the “basis of life on the planet – it all started there”, in the words of Vincent Doumeizel, senior…
Lifejacket Use is Having A Significant Impact - Water Safety Ireland Chief Executive Dr Joanne Walsh
23rd July 2024 Wavelength Podcast
Some positive news for watersport safety – recreational and commercial vessel activity accounted for just over one per cent of all drownings in Ireland in a five year period from 2017. That means the lifejacket legislation is working, as Water…
Ireland "Won't Have Spatial Squeeze", But There Will be Challenges With Offshore Renewables - Cartographer John Coleman
15th July 2024 Wavelength Podcast
Over the next decade, the Irish Sea coast will have wind farms extending from Dundalk Bay as far as Wexford with a “bit of a gap around the Kish bank lighthouse”, according to cartographer John Coleman of La Tene Maps.…
