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23rd October 2014

How Round Ireland Swim Inspired Successful RIB Business

#RIB - Tom Prendeville writes in the Sunday Independent about Donegal's Atlantic Composites, whose co-founder Timmy Boyle has built a successful line in "unsinkable" boats.

Boyle, a mechanical engineering fitter by trade, identified a gap in the domestic market for off-the-shelf rigid inflatable boats, or RIBs, while competing in the 2006 Round Ireland Swim.

Few of these boats – commonly used as inshore lifeboats, and perfect for the varying conditions Ireland's coastal waters can throw at them – were being made in Ireland at the time.

So Boyle and a colleague enlisted the help of South African naval architect Kobus Potgieter in developing their first prototype, which faced rigorous sea trials.

The rest, as they say, is history, and the Sunday Independent has much more on the story HERE.

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Shannon Foynes Port Information

Shannon Foynes Port (SFPC) are investing in an unprecedented expansion at its general cargo terminal, Foynes, adding over two-thirds the size of its existing area. In the latest phase of a €64 million investment programme, SFPC is investing over €20 million in enabling works alone to convert 83 acres on the east side of the existing port into a landbank for marine-related industry, port-centric logistics and associated infrastructure. The project, which will be developed on a phased basis over the next five years, will require the biggest infrastructure works programme ever undertaken at the port, with the entire 83 acre landbank having to be raised by 4.4 metres. The programme will also require the provision of new internal roads and multiple bridge access as well as roundabout access.