Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta Events Director Paddy Boyd On a Harbour Transformed (Podcast)

2nd July 2023

Over 370 boats will compete on Dublin Bay at this week's Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, opening on Thursday, July 6th and running until Sunday, July 9th Credit: Afloat

If it’s July, it must be the return of the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, along with Coastival, the new festival celebrating the rich maritime heritage of the south Dublin waterfront.

Over 370 boats have registered for the regatta, opening on Thursday, July 6th, weather permitting, and running until Sunday, July 9th.

Along with Irish entries, British, Northern Irish, Scottish, Welsh and French competitors are travelling to participate in races across 40 classes.

Over 360 boats have registered for the 2023 Volvo Dun Laoghaire regatta Photo: Afloat

Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2023 event director Paddy Boyd spoke to Wavelengths about the week ahead, starting with Coastival opening on July 1st.

Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2023 event director Paddy Boyd Photo: Bob Bateman

He also spoke about how the 200-year-old harbour has survived the loss of its ferry service, about the new relationship between the harbour, the town and Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council – and about long-term plans for a national watersports campus.

There is a new relationship between Dun Laoghaire harbour, the town and Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council – and there are long-term plans for a national watersports campus

Click below to listen to Paddy Boyd on Wavelengths

Afloat.ie · Paddy Boyd on Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2023

Published in Wavelength Podcast, Volvo Regatta, Coastival, Dun Laoghaire Harbour News, Dun Laoghaire Watersports Campus

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Lorna Siggins

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Lorna Siggins is a print and radio reporter, and a former Irish Times western correspondent. She is the author of Search and Rescue: True stories of Irish Air-Sea Rescues and the Loss of R116 (2022); Everest Callling (1994) on the first Irish Everest expedition; Mayday! Mayday! (2004); and Once Upon a Time in the West: the Corrib gas controversy (2010). She is also co-producer with Sarah Blake of the Doc on One "Miracle in Galway Bay" which recently won a Celtic Media Award

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