Shannon Estuary and River
Ireland’s Conor O’Brien Circumnavigation Centenary Celebrations Feel Like Fantasy Fulfilled
1st April 2023 W M Nixon
Let us imagine that you are both an enthusiast for Conor O’Brien (1880-1952), the Shannon Estuary’s great pioneering voyager, and that you are also one of those number-crunchers who enjoy calculating on what particular day significant anniversaries will fall in…
Kilrush Skiff Sailors Discover Dublin Bay Water Wags Have Become Icons Of France's Morbihan Classics
27th February 2023 Water Wag
The St Ayles skiff Ealu, new-built by Seol Sionna in Kilrush, has been entered for this year's edition of the vast and deservedly legendary Semaine du Golfe for traditional and classic boats at the Morbihan in Southern Brittany from May…
Conor O'Brien Book Donated to Foynes Yacht Club as €1,000 Raised for RNLI at Presentation Night
20th January 2023 Conor O'Brien
Following Vincent Murphy's presentation on the life of circumnavigator Conor O’Brien at Foynes Yacht Club on the Shannon Estuary last Friday evening, Professor Patrick Frawley, a member of the Club, and a native of Foynes donated an unedited version of one of…
Foynes Yacht Club's annual RNLI Quiz has raised €710 for the lifesaving charity. The quiz winners were the Foynes Yacht Club Sailing Instructors; Mary McCormack, Amelie Brogan, Bev Lowes (Commodore), Isabel O’Shea, and Sarah Guina. Tonight, the Shannon Estuary club will hear…
Foynes Yacht Club on the Shannon Estuary welcomes Vincent Murphy on Friday evening, 13th January, at 7.30 pm, to give a 100th-anniversary presentation on the life of the late circumnavigator Conor O’Brien. In 1923-25, O'Brien became the first amateur skipper…
Royal Western of Ireland Yacht Club of Kilrush Returns to Sydney-Hobart Podium
1st January 2023 Sydney to Hobart
It's seventeen years since the Royal Western of Ireland YC of Kilrush on the Shannon Estuary was represented on the Sydney-Hobart Race Prizewinners Podium. Back in 2005, Ger O'Rourke with his then-new Cookson 50 Chieftain RWIYC took an impressive first…
Shannon Foynes Port Welcomes Government's Vision for Estuary's Potential in Offshore Renewable Energy and National Transport Hub
14th December 2022 Shannon Estuary
The Shannon Foynes Port Company has welcomed the backing by the government of the Shannon Estuary as a premier location for offshore renewable energy in addition as a transport hub for Ireland. Tanaiste Leo Varadkar on Monday published the interim…
When you sail west past Mizen Head in the deep south, or Malin Head in the far north, you know you’re getting into the real Atlantic territory, where they do things differently afloat and ashore. For although the hundreds of…
The ESB and the Shannon Airport Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore the development of a “hydrogen lighthouse” project in the environment surrounding the airport’s site, on the Shannon Estuary. The project aims to explore the…
Work is to start at the Shannon estuary Port of Foynes of the first phase to reopen the railway line to Limerick which is to carry freight but also the possibility to return a passenger service. To mark the reopening…
Shannon Estuary Vision 2041 Masterplan Is Opportunity for Multiple Kerry Ports
8th November 2022 Shannon Estuary
Shannon Foynes Port Company which is Ireland’s second largest port operator, has said that the Shannon Estuary Vision 2041 Masterplan needs to start now. That’s the view of the Port's CEO Pat Keating on the masterplan which the Minister for the…
Shannon Estuary's Cutter Sally O'Keeffe Successfully Spans The Ages
11th October 2022 Shannon Estuary
The 25ft gaff cutter Sally O'Keeffe, built by a community group at Querrin on the Loop Head Peninsula under the guidance of master shipwright Steve Morris of Kilrush, to a design by Myles Stapleton of Malahide as a miniature synthesis…
Coastwatch Appeals for Volunteers for Annual Month-Long National Shore Survey
17th September 2022 Coastal Notes
Coastwatch has appealed for volunteers to join its annual autumn shore survey, which runs from mid-September to mid-October. “This is now one of the longest standing citizen science projects in Ireland,” Coastwatch founder Karin Dubsky says. ” It’s a basic…
The Last of The Light by Marc Ó Riain Captures Images of Loop Head Peninsula
17th August 2022 Wavelength Podcast
The Last of the Light is a collection of memories, short stories and beautiful images from the Loop Head peninsula by Kilkee writer Marc Ó Riain. The author aimed to capture “the images, sounds and smells, the very taste of…
Shannon Foynes Port CEO Welcomes Tender for Limerick to Foynes rail
15th August 2022 Shannon Estuary
The Shannon Estuary can become an international floating offshore wind and related green fuels generation hub, according to the Chief Executive of the Port Company, Pat Keating, who today welcomed the expression of interest’ tender for works on the 42km…
As Afloat previously reported, the Dublin Bay Mermaid National Championships were held on the 2nd to 6th of August on the Shannon Estuary at Foynes. 16 boats took to the start line with many favourites of old competing for the…
