Wavelength Podcast with Lorna Siggins
Irish Sailors Set to Compete in "Retro" Ocean Globe Race Around the World Without GPS
14th August 2023 Wavelength Podcast
Two Irish sailors are participating in the 2023-24 Ocean Globe Race (OGR), billed as a “retro race” in the spirit of the 1973 Whitbread Round the World Race. Roisin O’Halloran (20) and Terry Kavanagh (55) will be on board the…
Mark Mellett, New Chair of MARA, on Government Plans for 2,500 Wind Turbines Off Irish Coasts
19th July 2023 Wavelength Podcast
“We are in a race for survival…” The words of Mark Mellett, chair of MARA, the State’s first marine planning regulatory authority, which has just opened for business in Wexford. If Government targets on renewable energy offshore are met, there…
Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta Events Director Paddy Boyd On a Harbour Transformed (Podcast)
2nd July 2023 Wavelength Podcast
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…
Calculating the Weather - Met Éireann's Recently Retired Evelyn Cusack
29th June 2023 Wavelength Podcast
Did you know that Met Éireann calculates the weather every 2.5 kilometres, whereas the global models accessible on mobile phones are calculated every nine or every twelve kilometres? The one exception to that is the Norwegian forecasting service, used by…
New York Yacht Club Among The Entries for Wednesday's Volvo Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race
3rd June 2023 Wavelength Podcast
“They are missing a lot of berths down there, but we’ll get everybody in by hook or by crook! The words of Adam Winkelmann, chairman of the Dun Laoghaire-Dingle Race, speaking about Dingle’s marina. A collision by a French fishing…
Leonie King's Memories of Her Late Father Solo Sailor Commander Bill King
31st May 2023 Wavelength Podcast
“There’s a Japanese man coming, it’s probably revenge..would you just go away, I’m old; I don’t mind dying “ “I came back three hours later and they were on their third bottle of white wine..” That’s one of many memories…
Gleoiteog Crew Plan Sail from Connemara to Galway via Lake and River Corrib
14th May 2023 Wavelength Podcast
Sruthán Buí is a 17-year-old gleoiteog based in Lettermullen, south Connemara, which will embark on an unusual trip later this month. Its owner Mairtín Óg MacDonnacha, his cousins Joe and Michael Barrett and several others will set off on May…
Inis Mhic Oileáin: One of Two Unique Places in the World - Artist Maria Simonds-Gooding
27th April 2023 Wavelength Podcast
“There are two places in the world that create a sort of a spark within one that is so unique…and one of those is Inis Mhic Oileáin..” That’s how award-winning artist Maria Simonds-Gooding feels about the Kerry island, one of…
The disappearance of 129 people led by Sir John Franklin after they set out in 1845 to find a sea route to the Orient by way of the North-west Passage is one of the great mysteries of high-latitude exploration. That’s…
Sam Field Corbett of Sea Stay Galway Questions Row Over Tank Flag
27th March 2023 Wavelength Podcast
Sam Field Corbett, director of a number of marine-based companies in Dublin and Galway, found himself at the centre of criticism last week when a military tank which he had imported to incorporate into an “escape room” was reported to…
New Angelshark Action Plan to Support Recovery for Future Generations
19th March 2023 Wavelength Podcast
“Jaws” it ain’t – the Angelshark has more in common with the skate and ray but is now an endangered species. The squat flat shark, appropriately named Squatina squatina, once lived in abundance on sandy and muddy seabed areas on…
Ireland's Wetlands and Why We Should Care - Tobias Salathé of the UN Ramsar Convention
24th February 2023 Wavelength Podcast
Ireland has 45 fragile flooded habitats which are protected under a UN Convention named after a city on the Caspian Sea. The Ramsar Convention was signed in the city in 1971, and international participation has gradually grown to 172 countries.…
A Future for the Naomh Éanna - Islander Michéal Ó Goill's Proposal
14th February 2023 Wavelength Podcast
Aran island resident Micheál Ó Goill was all of six years of age when he saw the Naomh Éanna making its first sailing in from Galway to Inis Mór. That was April 1958, and in August of that year, it…
It took her just over sixty days, covering more than 800 miles on skis while pulling a 350-pound sledge. Five years ago, in January 2018, Norwegian adventurer and oncology nurse Astrid Furholt became the first woman to ski to the…
What do the Loch Ness monster, the El Nino effect and dead water at sea have in common? All may be associated with internal waves, a phenomenon of wave motion in which Dr David Henry of the School of Mathematical…
Brian MacCoitir of the Irish Cave Rescue Organisation Recalls Downpatrick Head Rescue
23rd December 2022 Wavelength Podcast
There have been many extraordinary rescue efforts in Irish waters over the past year. One which few involved will ever forget lasted 22 hours, close to Downpatrick Head in north Mayo this past September. It took 14 hours alone to…
