Wavelength Podcast with Lorna Siggins
![Kayaker and pilot Kevin O'Sullivan, author of Big Dream, Little Boat Kayaker and pilot Kevin O'Sullivan, author of Big Dream, Little Boat](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000UC1gdIh0yGE/s/848/I0000UC1gdIh0yGE.jpg)
Big Dream, Little Boat - Kayaker Kevin O'Sullivan's Paddle Around Ireland
20th June 2024 Wavelength Podcast
Big Dream, Little Boat is the brilliant title for Kevin O’Sullivan’s book, just published by Liffey Press, on his circumnavigation of Ireland solo by kayak. The retired Aer Lingus pilot, who has been very involved with the sea scouts in…
![Ann Kirwan at the helm of a Ruffian 23 in West Cork Ann Kirwan at the helm of a Ruffian 23 in West Cork](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000gwewUE2UeKs/s/848/I0000gwewUE2UeKs.jpg)
"No Shouting" - Joan Mulloy and Ann Kirwan On the Women At The Helm Regatta
16th May 2024 Wavelength Podcast
Irish international offshore sailor Joan Mulloy has recently completed a ten-day trip from Antigua to Portugal in a Mod 70 trimaran as part of the Famous project led by Dee Cafarri and Alexia Barrier, which aims to break the record…
![Mark Gannon, coxswain with RNLI Courtmacsherry
Mark Gannon, coxswain with RNLI Courtmacsherry](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000Ojg9oywr6mE/s/848/I0000Ojg9oywr6mE.jpg)
RNLI Courtmacsherry Coxswain Mark Gannon on Astrid, Penlee, Fastnet and Free Wills Month
9th May 2024 Wavelength Podcast
RNLI coxswain Mark Gannon with West Cork’s Courtmacsherry lifeboat was on a call out in December 1981 when he and his crew heard over the radio about the Penlee lifeboat disaster - when an entire lifeboat crew was lost off…
![Galley Head Lightkeeper Gerald Butler with Yvonne Shields Chief Executive of Commissioner of Irish Lights with Cillian Phelan (8yrs) Sarah Phelan (6 yrs) and Sophie Costello (8 yrs) Galley Head Lightkeeper Gerald Butler with Yvonne Shields Chief Executive of Commissioner of Irish Lights with Cillian Phelan (8 yrs) Sarah Phelan (6 yrs) and Sophie Costello (8 yrs)](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000nAweDiNgv5o/s/767/I0000nAweDiNgv5o.jpg)
A Surefire Cure for Seasickness and Other Tips from Former Lightkeeper Gerald Butler, Now Hosting Visitors to Galley Head For The Irish Landmark Trust
30th April 2024 Wavelength Podcast
Look for a surefire cure for seasickness, and no better person to ask than someone who worked on a lightship off the Irish coast. Lightship duty was both tough and boring, highly dangerous during wartime, and particularly hard on the…
![Oceans of Hope UK founder Robert Munns (on right in red shirt).jpg Oceans of Hope UK founder Robert Munns (on right in red shirt).jpg](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000Wjj7Lgbn9Tc/s/767/I0000Wjj7Lgbn9Tc.jpg)
Oceans of Hope Challenge Founder Robert Munns On Sailing with MS And Its First Irish Event
8th April 2024 Wavelength Podcast
When duty marina manager Robert Munns had a chance meeting with a Danish doctor on a pontoon at Brighton some years ago, it changed his life. Munns had been diagnosed by multiple sclerosis (MS) some time before, and the Dane…
![Met Éireann meteorologist Joanna Donnelly with her latest book at Malahide marina Met Éireann meteorologist Joanna Donnelly with her latest book at Malahide marina](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I000084BwBcjWMDM/s/767/I000084BwBcjWMDM.jpg)
A Journey Around the Sea Area Forecast with Meteorologist Joanna Donnelly
2nd April 2024 Wavelength Podcast
Met Éireann meteorologist Joanna Donnelly recently earned the title of “Optimist of the Year” from an Irish Times letter writer for her take on yet another wet spell. As correspondent Kate Power recalled, Donnelly had been describing a rainfront that…
![The Marine Institute’s new chief executive, Dr Rick Officer The Marine Institute’s new chief executive, Dr Rick Officer](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000CbmvxUeXOeM/s/767/I0000CbmvxUeXOeM.jpg)
Sharing Ireland's Sea Space is "an Opportunity, Not a Problem" - Marine Institute's New Chief Executive Dr Rick Officer
13th March 2024 Wavelength Podcast
Good news – there is a sustained trend towards improvement in fish stocks in Irish waters, the Marine Institute’s new chief executive, Dr Rick Officer says. Speaking to Wavelengths, he says “huge credit” is due to Irish fishers for weathering…
![Poet Keith Payne Poet Keith Payne](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000tbBrCY.Vuvw/s/767/I0000tbBrCY.Vuvw.jpg)
Keith Payne On How To Build A Dunfanaghy Currach And Write A Poem About It In 16 Weeks
22nd February 2024 Wavelength Podcast
Currachs and naomhógs are among the only sea craft built upside down, and the expertise dates back generations. Poet Keith Payne learned all this and much more when he found himself working on a Dunfanaghy currach over 16 weeks. He…
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Marine Scientists Call on Open Water Swimmers and Coastal Walkers to Help Map Seagrass in Galway Bay
8th February 2024 Wavelength Podcast
Open water swimmers at Galway's Blackrock tower tend to swim east, but scientists would love it if they sometimes swam west – weather permitting. That’s an area rich in seagrass in Galway Bay, and one of a number of habitats…
![Royal Cork Yacht Club’s first female admiral, Annamarie Fegan, on board her yacht Nieulargo during the club's Volvo Cork Week Regatta Royal Cork Yacht Club’s first female admiral, Annamarie Fegan, on board her yacht Nieulargo during the club's Volvo Cork Week Regatta](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000WjenexIAQE8/s/767/I0000WjenexIAQE8.jpg)
Royal Cork Yacht Club's First Female Admiral Annamarie Fegan (Podcast Here!)
23rd January 2024 Wavelength Podcast
“It only took 304 years…” The words of Royal Cork Yacht Club’s first female admiral, Annamarie Fegan, on her election to the post this week. As Afloat reports here, Fegan, who already broke new ground in the world’s oldest yacht…
![David Lawlor with oysters at Dun Laoghaire Marina. Lawlor is starting what may be a 15 to 20-year project with a pilot, cultivating a series of “oyster gardens” in several yacht marinas at Poolbeg, Malahide and Dun Laoghaire in Dublin David Lawlor with oysters at Dun Laoghaire Marina. Lawlor is starting what may be a 15 to 20-year project with a pilot, cultivating a series of “oyster gardens” in several yacht marinas at Poolbeg, Malahide and Dun Laoghaire in Dublin](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00005I2T9H4PAn8/s/767/I00005I2T9H4PAn8.jpg)
Once a Fast Food of Dublin Bay, Oysters May Return - David Lawlor of the Green Ocean Project (Podcast)
11th January 2024 Wavelength Podcast
Diver, sailor and coffee distributor David Lawlor is not that mad about oysters – he’ll eat them out of politeness – but he is mad about what they can do as keystone species in stabilising marine habitats. That’s why he…
![Reaching the finish of the Transat Jacques Vabre Yacht Race in Martinique, Tiphaine Ragueneau (left and Ireland's Pam Lee of Greystones Harbour Reaching the finish of the Transat Jacques Vabre Yacht Race in Martinique, Tiphaine Ragueneau (left and Ireland's Pam Lee of Greystones Harbour](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000XwvSGfkHZoA/s/767I0000XwvSGfkHZoA.jpg)
"My Toughest 48 hours at Sea"- Pam Lee from Greystones On Her Transat Jacques Vabre Yacht Race (Podcast)
30th December 2023 Wavelength Podcast
Let’s do that again, but do it better – they are the words of a very determined Pam Lee from Greystones, who came 29th with Tiphaine Ragueneau in the 30th Transat Jacques Vabre yacht race from Le Havre to Martinique.…
![Tomek Ciezki of Heavy Man Films, director of Man Versus Ocean Tomek Ciezki of Heavy Man Films, director of Man Versus Ocean](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000cOdXDPyKfM8/s/767/I0000cOdXDPyKfM8.jpg)
Tomek Ciezki of Heavy Man Films on The Making of the Documentary - Man Versus Ocean
17th December 2023 Wavelength Podcast
When Tomek Ciezki of Heavy Man Films was asked to meet a man who wanted to make a video of his “holiday and travel photos”, he was initially doubtful. However, the footage took him aback – he was stunned by…
![Artist Maria Simonds Gooding with An File - Blasket islander Micheál O Gaoithín Artist Maria Simonds Gooding with An File - Blasket islander Micheál O Gaoithín](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000J3K4f9FaF00/s/635/I0000J3K4f9FaF00.jpg)
How a Mirror on a Paddle Saved The Lives of Divers and an Artist off the Kerry Coast
28th November 2023 Wavelength Podcast
Imagine being on your own on a Blasket island, dependent on several divers to come and collect you – and then their dinghy runs out of fuel. If a fishing vessel hadn’t spotted the reflection of a mirror they had…
![French oceans advisor Vincent Doumeizel French oceans advisor Vincent Doumeizel](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I000028bG_1__HIk/s/767/I000028bG_1__HIk.jpg)
Seaweed Farming Can Feed The Globe and Capture Carbon - UN Oceans Advisor
12th November 2023 Wavelength Podcast
It is easier to pump oil from the bottom of the ocean than to farm seaweed, according to French oceans advisor Vincent Doumeizel. Doumeizel, from Burgundy in France, is a senior advisor on the oceans to the United Nations (UN)…
![Dublin Port chief executive Barry O’Connell Dublin Port chief executive Barry O’Connell](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000TDR68jHCfvs/s/767/I0000TDR68jHCfvs.jpg)
Dublin Port Is Here For a Reason - Chief Executive Barry O'Connell On Why It Has To Stay
27th October 2023 Wavelength Podcast
Dublin Port chief executive Barry O’Connell had previously worked in eight different countries for Coca-Cola before he took up his new post a year ago this November. The port has been investing in community projects, including the refurbished substation on…