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Schull Regatta is among some 18 coastal community projects across County Cork from Baltimore to Fountainstown will benefit from €241,100 in funding this year. Another beneficiary is Passage West Maritime Museum that has received €18,555 for the redevelopment of the Cork Harbour Museum.

The grants are co-funded by the Irish Government and the European Union under Ireland’s European Maritime & Fisheries Fund Operational Programme for the seafood sector.

Tanaiste and local TD Simon Coveney said, “The FLAGs initiative is proving a fantastic success and the grants awarded to our local coastal projects to date in 2018 will be a hugely important boost to our coastal communities here in Cork.

Bantry Inshore Search & Rescue Association received almost €40,000 in funding, while Clean Coasts Ballinamona and Passage West Maritime Museum received approximately €15,000 each, and ZT Fish, O’Driscolls Fish and Eire Bass also receiving significant funding.

Funkytown (Fountainstown), Castletownbere Rowing Club, Courtmacsherry Rowing Club, Baltimore Seafood Festival, Schull Regatta, Ellen Hutchins Festival and Cobh Summer Swing will also benefit from the grant aid.

More than 100 (106) grants worth €1.5 million have been awarded by our 7 coastal FLAG groups, bringing total FLAG grant offers in 2018 to €3.1 million.

“Successful projects included investments in micro seafood enterprises, marine tourism and marine leisure projects, heritage projects, small harbour facilities, and environmental and training projects.”

Applicant Project Total Cost Grant Aid
Funkytown Adventure Centre The Secret South 5,630.00 2,815.00
Ellen Hutchins Educational Coastal Videos 4,610.00 3,688.00
Ellen Hutchins Festival Learning to Love Lichens and Explore the Shore (botany audit / survey / leaflet 2,500.00 2,000.00
Passage West Maritime Museum Redevelopment of Museum 18,555.80 14,844.64
O’Driscolls Fish Expandsion of business 24,900.00 19,920.00
Bantry Inshore Search & Rescue Association Refurbishment of lifeboat slip 49,458.50 39,567.00
Oceans of Discovery Scuba Diving Promotions Corks Underwater World 3,092.83 1,546.42
Schull Regatta Community Limited Schull Regatta 2,500.00 2,000.00
Clean Coasts Ballinamona Clean Coasts 19,923.42 15,938.74
Roaringwater Marine Equipment 4,037.01 2,018.50
Baltimore 2000 Baltimore Seafood Festival 2,500.00 2,000.00
Cobh Summer Swing Festival 2,356.00 1,885.00
Ardfield-Rathbarry Galley Flash Rowing Club Oar Purchase Project 4,492.00 2,246.00
ZT Fish Company Limited Added Value Unit for locally sourced frozen prawn and whitefish products 53,167.80 26,583.90
Castletownbere Rowing Club Training and safety equipment purchase 8,459.00 4,229.50
David ODriscoll Self Employed Fisherman Training and certification for Able seafarer course and related training 2,180.00 1,090.00
Courtmacsherry Rowing Club Company Limited by Guarantee Maximising the participation of the community and tourists in the sport of coastal and offshore rowing 9,840.00 4,920.00
Richie Ryan – EIRE BASS Eire Bass saltwater fly fishing business upgrade 22,972.00 11,486.00
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Coastal Notes Coastal Notes covers a broad spectrum of stories, events and developments in which some can be quirky and local in nature, while other stories are of national importance and are on-going, but whatever they are about, they need to be told.

Stories can be diverse and they can be influential, albeit some are more subtle than others in nature, while other events can be immediately felt. No more so felt, is firstly to those living along the coastal rim and rural isolated communities. Here the impact poses is increased to those directly linked with the sea, where daily lives are made from earning an income ashore and within coastal waters.

The topics in Coastal Notes can also be about the rare finding of sea-life creatures, a historic shipwreck lost to the passage of time and which has yet many a secret to tell. A trawler's net caught hauling more than fish but cannon balls dating to the Napoleonic era.

Also focusing the attention of Coastal Notes, are the maritime museums which are of national importance to maintaining access and knowledge of historical exhibits for future generations.

Equally to keep an eye on the present day, with activities of existing and planned projects in the pipeline from the wind and wave renewables sector and those of the energy exploration industry.

In addition Coastal Notes has many more angles to cover, be it the weekend boat leisure user taking a sedate cruise off a long straight beach on the coast beach and making a friend with a feathered companion along the way.

In complete contrast is to those who harvest the sea, using small boats based in harbours where infrastructure and safety poses an issue, before they set off to ply their trade at the foot of our highest sea cliffs along the rugged wild western seaboard.

It's all there, as Coastal Notes tells the stories that are arguably as varied to the environment from which they came from and indeed which shape people's interaction with the surrounding environment that is the natural world and our relationship with the sea.