Lorna Siggins
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
A flotilla is steaming up the river Liffey today in the next stage of a marine wildlife campaign to secure legal protection for basking sharks in these waters. Over 7,000 people have already voiced support for the Save Our Sharks…
A Galway hooker restored with the support of a city publican has joined the local traditional fleet on Galway bay. Réalt na Gaillimhe or Star of Galway was built in Indreabhán, south Connemara, by the Cloherty boat builders in 1910.…
Cars parked at coastal and other outdoor locations are at most risk of being broken into on weekend afternoons during summer months, the Garda Siochána says. Catalytic converters, cash, electronics, jewellery and tools were the items most targeted, and the…
Plenty of Marine Life to See from Galway's Aran Island Ferry to Inis Mór - Skipper Shane McCole on Podcast
8th July 2021 Wavelength Podcast
Porpoises, dolphins, fin whales, puffins and guillemots near the Cliffs of Moher...master of the new Aran island ferry Shane McCole promises much marine life on the new direct run between Galway city and Inis Mór. The 40-metre vessel Saoirse na…
Marine biologists have long wondered why some species like the white shark and bluefin tuna are warm-blooded when most fish are not. Now newly published research led by a Trinity College Dublin (TCD) scientist has concluded that the ability to…
Subterranean Estuaries Help Filter Out Pollutants, New Study Involving Trinity College Dublin Finds
24th June 2021 Marine Science
“Subterranean estuaries” may be critical in managing sustainable fishing and aquaculture, according to new research. Subterranean estuaries may be invisible to the naked eye, but may be very important in the ecology of coastal systems, the research by Trinity College…
“Like a real live James Bond movie.. another absolutely insane adventure” is how the ocean and cold water swimmer Nuala Moore describes it. She’s talking about the relay which she and Donegal swimmer Anne Marie Ward participated in to swim…
Steaming up the river Liffey before sunrise, a fleet of 55 Irish fishing vessels staged a national protest in Dublin over the impact of several key issues including Brexit. The second large-scale protest called on the government to seek a…
Irish offshore solo sailor Yannick Lemonnier has pledged to continue his Mini Transatlantic Race campaign after his recent yacht dismasting in the English Channel. Speaking to Afloat, Lemonnier said he had received such a warm and supportive response from sailors…
Several Galway hookers will join a fleet of finely tuned sailing dinghies on Lough Corrib for Europe’s longest and oldest inland yacht race this weekend. The Anam Cara and Lon Dubh gleoiteogs which have been restored by the Galway Hooker…
Government Concern Over Low Levels of Feedback from Fishing & Fish Farming on Marine Protected Area Consultation
23rd June 2021 Marine Wildlife
Government officials seeking public views on an expansion of marine protected areas (MPAs) have expressed concern at the low level of feedback so far from the fishing and fish farming sectors. Officials at the Department of Housing, Heritage and Local…
Galway's 96-year old gleoiteog Loveen has marked a key stage in its restoration with the nailing of its "whiskey plank". At a "low key" ceremony, the final plank was secured and the occasion was marked with a "modest" round of…
Floating Nuclear Reactors & Reducing Shipping Carbon Emissions Theme of International Conference
21st June 2021 Power From the Sea
The role of the marine environment in the push towards “net zero” carbon emissions is the theme of an international marine engineering conference running online later this month. The challenges involved in using offshore wind energy and the feasibility of…
Round Ireland Relay Sea Swimmer Nuala Moore on What Inspires & Defines Her (Podcast)
17th June 2021 Wavelength Podcast
“I never thought Cork would ever finish,” says Nuala Moore of that wonderful part of this coastline which she navigated in 2006. Moore was then one of six swimmers who undertook a round Ireland relay swim of 1,330 km in…
Skellig Michael's re-opening to visitors has been deferred to July 1st due to weather and sea conditions, the Office of Public Works (OPW) has said. The OPW had set a target date of June 21st for the 2021 season, but…
Six Dun Laoghaire Men Lost in German Bombing of Lightship Remembered (Podcast)
10th June 2021 Wavelength Podcast
There are no words to describe the impact on relatives and friends of having someone lost at sea, but Elleesa Rushby’s own family experience is informing research she is undertaking on its toll. It is known as ambiguous loss, and…
Ireland has Most of World's Endangered Basking Sharks & Needs to Protect Them Legally - Open Letter by International Scientists on World Ocean Day
8th June 2021 Sharks
A group of international scientists is marking world ocean day by calling for legal protection of the basking shark in Irish waters. Ireland has a global responsibility to protect the world’s second-largest shark and fish – known as Liabhán chor…
Why The Government’s Seafood Task Force Has to Work - Dr Kevin Flannery
3rd June 2021 Wavelength Podcast
Optimism is not a sentiment one associates with the Irish fishing industry at the moment – but Kerry based Dr Kevin Flannery does feel there are some reasons to be cheerful. Flannery, a rare fish expert, former fisheries officer, chair…
Britain and the EU have reached agreement “in principle” on joint management of fisheries for this year, after over five months of negotiations. The agreement was finalised in a phone call on Wednesday afternoon, June 2nd, between the EU Commissioner…
Weather permitting, a flotilla of wooden-built Galway hookers will escort an aluminium-built passenger ferry out on the first leg of its maiden voyage between Galway city and the Aran islands this morning. Several gleoiteogs with Galway Hooker Sailing Club aim…
