Keem Bay on Achill Island has made the grade among the 50 best beaches in the world, according to a top travel website. And as The Irish Post reports, the Co Mayo coastal beauty spot was ranked among the best…

An ingenious technique of using magnetic fluids to filter microplastic from water has netted a West Cork student a major world science award, as The Irish Times reports. Eighteen-year-old Fionn Ferreira from Ballydehob topped a group of 24 finalists from…

Dingle’s resident dolphin Fungie is one of the longest living solitary cetaceans in the world, according to a new report from wildlife experts. The second edition of the Lone Rangers report identifies Fungie — who has been a fixture of…

Young climate activist Greta Thunberg is taking to the high seas as she plans a zero-carbon journey from Europe to a UN climate summit in New York this September. As RTÉ News reports, the 16-year-old Swede intends to cross the…

Likely objections about “visual impact” would hamper any attempts to develop offshore wind farms in Northern Ireland for the time being, according to a new Stormont report. As BBC News reports, the paper from the Department for the Economy highlights…

The fastest sharks in the oceans find few refuges from longline fishing, according to an international study writes Lorna Siggins. The study published in Nature yesterday bears out the concerns of Irish scientists who have called for greater protection of…

The main lay installation works for the Rockabill Subsea Cable will take place from tomorrow, Saturday 20 July, to Sunday 1 September. Using the vessel CS Teliri (callsign IBBT), the Rockabill cable system will be conducted from north of Lambay Island…

A shark species previously unrecorded in Irish waters has been sighted in the Celtic Sea. A smooth hammerhead shark was reported on the edge of the continental shelf, south-west of Ireland, during a recent fisheries survey on the Marine Institute’s…

Nearly two months after she was spotted off the East Coast, Spirtle the dolphin has been filmed frolicking off the shores of Kerry, as the Irish Mirror reports. The young dolphin is distinctive for the heavy scarring and discolouration on…

MaREI, the SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine hosted by University College Cork has been awarded €9 million for the H2020 project MUSICA to build a pilot multi-use platform which will be a decarbonising one-stop-shop for small islands,…

Divers off the coast of Cornwall captured the remarkable moment when they encountered a ‘giant’ jellyfish the size of a human being. As the Irish News reports, biologist Lizzie Daly and wildlife cameraman Dan Abbott were filing for the UK’s…

As open water sea swimmers prepare for a Galway Bay crossing this weekend, Irish Water has said there is “no proven link” between a recent serious pollution incident in the city and the quality of bathing water off Galway’s beaches…

A new Cork Harbour ferry has been launched to Spike Island to coincide with the opening of a major new exhibition there, and it's hoped these initiatives will lead to a rise in tourist visitor numbers writes Bob Bateman. The ferry, named…

Father and son Terry and Tomás Deane went out from the Kerry coast on the longest day of the year with the intention of finding marine wildlife. But little did they expect they would come face-to-face with a pod of…

On the high seas a musical odyssey, RTE reports, took place on board a 12-metre sailboat, featuring a piano and a French singer songwriter. Marieke Huysmans Berthou had a dream to sail around the world and perform concerts wherever she…

A shocking video shows the moment when a sailboat moored in a US harbour was struck by lightning. The dramatic flash was caught on camera by a passer-by at the marina in South Boston as stormy weather rolled through the state…