Wavelength Podcast with Lorna Siggins
Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation to Become a Partner in Floating Windfarm Project off Donegal
15th July 2022 Wavelength Podcast
If you can’t beat em, join em, and that’s one view of a surprise move by the Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation (KFO) to become a partner in a two-gigawatt floating wind farm project off the coast of Donegal. The KFO has…
Long Lost Log: Diary of a Virgin Sailor, Podcast with Michael Chapman Pincher
30th June 2022 Wavelength Podcast
When 23-year-old Michael Chapman Pincher enlisted as crew for an Atlantic voyage back in 1974, he had never sailed so much as a dinghy. Nor did he realise that the skipper of Gay Gander and his sailing companion were actually…
Irish Marine Research Ship Tom Crean is On Time, On Budget And Due For Delivery This Autumn
20th June 2022 Wavelength Podcast
It is “on time and on budget”. That’s the Marine Institute’s new 25 million euro research ship, RV Tom Crean, due for delivery this autumn. Named after the Kerry polar explorer who worked with both Ernest Shackleton and Sir Robert Scott,…
Bernard Lucas on Doolin Coast Guard and Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for the Caitriona Lucas Challenge
7th June 2022 Wavelength Podcast
On June 25th, Clare coast guard volunteer Bernard Lucas, along with Cormac Coyne of Inis Oir and Eoin Keane from Kilfenora will set out to climb 5,895 metres (19,341 feet) to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro the highest mountain in…
New RNLI Clifden Lifeboat Due with Names of 10,000 Loved Ones On Its Hull
13th May 2022 Wavelength Podcast
A newly built all-weather lifeboat with over 10,000 names on its hull which is due to arrive at the RNLI’s Clifden station in Connemara on Saturday has already recorded its first rescue mission. The Shannon-class lifeboat named St Christopher escorted…
Is Derry on the island of Ireland? That’s a question being asked by fishing industry representatives in a bitter row over how the State’s sea fisheries regulator has been handling landings of valuable blue whiting. The Irish Fish Producers’ Organisation…
The Eurocean Youth Network and the Work of Irish Maritime Ambassador Domonique Gillen
28th April 2022 Wavelength Podcast
Several months ago, images of a long silver streak on the water surface of the Bay of Biscay went viral on social media. The streak was created by an estimated 100,000 dead fish dumped by Dutch-owned trawler Margiris, one of…
University of Cambridge Researcher on How Wasteful it is to Feed Wild Fish to Rear Farmed Salmon
14th April 2022 Wavelength Podcast
Farmed salmon is Britain’s largest food export by value – more valuable than anything else except beer. Sounds impressive, but nutritious wild fish caught to sustain salmon farming is being squandered a new study maintains. Scientists analysing the Scottish salmon…
An Avoidable Collision Course - Caitlín Uí Aodha on the Fishing Industry's Concerns About Lack of Consultation on the Impacts of Offshore Renewables
2nd April 2022 Wavelength Podcast
The devastating invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s forces has focused minds on reducing energy dependence on Russia, with Ireland Inc gearing up to be the “Saudi Arabia” of offshore renewable. However, the Government’s delay in setting up a liaison…
SOS Bearna Opposes Galway County Plan to Permit Building to Within 15 metres From the Shoreline
18th March 2022 Wavelength Podcast
When former president Mary Robinson was speaking about the horrific invasion of Ukraine on RTE’s Late Late Show last week, she reminded us that climate change hasn’t gone away. SOS Bearna is the name of a community group in Galway…
Dr Karen Weekes: First Irish Woman to Row Solo Across the Atlantic (Podcast)
5th March 2022 Wavelength Podcast
“So your boat goes up the size of the wave, and then it goes down a bit and sometimes you might surf it or whatever but yeah, they were very very big..”. I’m useless at measuring things, I don’t know…
Donegal-born former Army Ranger, lifeguard, diver and swim instructor Henry O'Donnell broke his neck during the bicycle section of a triathlon 30 years ago, but hasn't looked back since his recovery. Anrí Ó Dómhnaill, a father and grandfather, has trekked…
Russian Military Exercises Raise Some Serious Questions - Former Defence Forces Chief of Staff Mark Mellett
3rd February 2022 Naval Visits
The Russian military exercises which had been due to take place within Ireland’s Exclusive Economic Zone ( EEZ) raise some serious questions, according to former Defence Forces chief of staff Mark Mellett. Mellett believes the Russian Federation’s original plan was…
A spectacular meteor shower, a close encounter with a hammerhead shark and a brief refuge for exhausted storm petrels – these are just some of the recent experiences recorded by Dr Karen Weekes on her solo row across the Atlantic.…
“Will I ever be able to sail again?” These were the first words Rachel Gotto remembers asking a close friend after coming round from major brain surgery. Gotto has spent her life on, in and around the sea, as one…
Irish Rower Karen Weekes & Her Solo Row Across the Atlantic to Barbados (Podcast with Shore Manager Suzanne Kennedy)
24th December 2021 Wavelength Podcast
Dr Karen Weekes will be spending Christmas Day, New Year’s day and more at sea on her 3,000-mile row from the Canaries to the Caribbean in her bid to become the first Irish woman to row solo across the Atlantic.…
