#WhaleWatch - More than half the sites hosting events for the recent All-Ireland Whale Watch Day saw at least one whale, dolphin or porpoise, according to the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG). Reporting its stats from Whale Watch Ireland…

#DolphinDeaths - Hundreds of bottlenose dolphins have died in strandings along the east coast of the United States this summer - and a measles-like virus could be to blame. As The Irish Times reports, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…

#NewFish - A team of marine scientists from UCD, the University of Salford and Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has reconstructed the origins of the endangered Killarney shad. The fish is known locally as the ‘goureen’ - but many of the…

#SeaFrontTours–The final Seafront Memorials Tour of the season ends this Sunday (1 September) in Dun Laoghaire Harbour and from where the waterfront is lined with historical landmarks. Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council which organises the free historical tours that have been…

#MarineScience - A team of young scientists have lost a special weather balloon probe somewhere in Dundalk Bay - and they've turned to the internet for help. CoderDojo mentor Daniel O'Reilly, who has been working with the teens on their…

#MarineWildlife - A dolphin from the Irish Sea that became stranded on sandbanks in the River Dee in North Wales was safely transported back to deeper waters aboard Flint’s inshore RNLI lifeboat. RNLI volunteers from Flint were called to Airbus…

#MarineWildlife - BBC News reports that three killer whales from a community of orcas off the Scottish west coast have been spotted off the country's east coast for the first time since scientists began monitoring the group in the 1990s.…

#heirisland – Now in its sixth year the Heir Island Regatta in West Cork is a fun day out for both the avid and more novice sailor. Run by volunteers all the proceeds go to the RNLI Lifeboats. 

#Oil&Gas - Fastnet Oil & Gas has published its first set of annual results as a public company, declaring its intention to develop an offshore well drilling programme for Ireland by 2015. Earlier this summer the company was awarded a…

#FishFarm - The Marine Institute has moved to highlight what it says are a "number of inaccuracies" in a news story regarding plans for the controversial Galway Bay fish farm. Yesterday (15 August) TheJournal.ie published an article on An Taisce's criticism…

#MarineWildlife - This Sunday's All-Ireland Whale Watch Day has made the list of The Irish Times' 40 things to do in Heritage Week 2013. The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) will be hosting free, guided and land-based whale watching…

#LobsterFestival – Dalkey's Lobster Festival (23,24 and 25 August) is for the second time, to welcome visitors to experience and enjoy the crab and all that Jazz!, writes Jehan Ashmore. The south Dublin Bay coastal town, once the principle port…

#MarineWildlife - The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) has welcomed recent measures to protect deep-diving cetaceans from the potential effects of seismic survey noise. The new measures have been implemented by the Petroleum Affairs Division (PAD) of the Department…

#MarineWildlife - The coastguard were beaten to the punch by a group of children who helped a stranded dolphin back into open water in Co Clare, as TheJournal.ie reports. Kilkee Coast Guard were dispatched after reports that the striped dolphin…

#MarineWildlife - Marine researchers have attached a video camera to the dorsal fin of a basking shark off Donegal in what's described as a "world's first". RTÉ News reports that the footage captured by the team from the Irish Basking…

#MarineScience - A collaborative performance fusing arts, music and science has been shortlisted for the 2013 Allianz Business to Arts Awards. As previously reported on Afloat.ie, The Longest River is a unique audio-visual performance intended to communicate the importance of…