What is marine leisure tourism?

Coastal tourism refers to land-based and water-based tourism activities taking place on the coast for which the proximity to the sea is a condition including also their respective services. Coastal and Marine Tourism & Leisure are seen as one of the Blue Economy (BE) sectors that can help unlock the potential of multi-use of space at sea by engaging with Blue Growth (BG) sectors such as Aquaculture and Marine Renewable Energy among others.

Give examples of marine leisure tourism?

Sports: sailing, surfing, diving and fishing Heritage: Unesco coastal villages, archaeological sites of interest, biospheres and historical points of interest Arts: coastal museums, art galleries, museums, wrecks Education: Eco-tourism, field courses, NGOs. Food: Seafood restaurants, Seafood festivals

What marine leisure tourism studies have been conducted in Ireland?

NUI Galway carried out a survey of domestic residents in Ireland in 2019 as part of a survey entitled "Valuing and understanding the dynamics of Ireland's Ocean Economy". The purpose of the household survey was to profile the domestic market for single-day trips (leisure) and overnight trips (tourism) for coastal and marine-related activities in Ireland. The results of the survey are also used to estimate what proportion of an Irish resident's total domestic tourism expenditure is in coastal areas (coastal tourism) and what proportion is spent on undertaking marine-related activities (marine tourism).

What were the results of the NUI marine leisure tourism study?

The NUI results highlight the important contribution that Ireland's marine and coastal resources make to the leisure experiences of the general population and the importance of the domestic tourism market to local coastal economies. The analysis indicates that domestic coastal tourism expenditure was approximately €698 million in 2018, while domestic marine tourism generated €381 million. Activities such as walking/ running along the coast, swimming and beach visitations are among the most popular activities for domestic visitors on both day and overnight trips. While participation rates in pursuits such as bird and wildlife watching in coastal areas and visiting nature reserves, etc. in coastal areas were lower, these activities did see the highest frequency of both day and overnight trips for those active in these activities. Satisfaction with the available marine-related leisure facilities was also found to be very high across all activities.

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15th June 2019

Bann Win the Battle of the Women's Junior 18 Eights at Athlone

#Rowing: Bann won the women's junior 18 eights with some style at Athlone Regatta today. In a battle of Northern Ireland clubs, the women in red and white were two lengths ahead of Enniskillen, with Coleraine GS third.

The women's junior 18 fours came late in the day and was a terrific battle. Commercial produced a cracking finish to win by a length from Enniskillen, with Bann third.

Coleraine's Molly Curry was a convincing winner of the women's junior 18 single, while Brian Colsh of Sligo was the men's junior sculling winner.

Galway's St Joseph's won the men's junior 18 eight, while Bann's good day included a win in the men's junior 18 four.

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15th June 2018

Athlone Cancels as Wind Claims Another Irish Rowing Regatta

#Rowing: Athlone Regatta has been cancelled. The weather forecast for Saturday in the area was for strong winds with gusts. The regatta is in its 49^th year and this is the third time it has been cancelled for weather reasons. All those cancellations have come in the last six years. The 2018 rowing season has been marked by a succession of cancellations.

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13th June 2015

Castleconnell Junior Quad Has One Foot to Spare at Athlone Regatta

#ROWING:In one of the closest races of a long day, Castleconnell beat Commercial by one foot in the men’s junior 18A quadruple sculls at Athlone Regatta at Coosan Point. Becky Quinn of Three Castles won the women’s senior single sculls and Patrick Munnelly of the host club won the men’s junior 18 single sculls. Bann won the women’s junior 18 eight. In the men’s junior 16 eight, St Joseph’s beat Portora. The senior events were not well supported.

Event Name	Crew name	Race Position
Mens Senior 2-	Neptune	Row over
	Shannon	Row over

Mens Senior 1X	Athlone, Munnelly, P	Did not start
	Garda, Kelly, D	Did not start
	Neptune, Bailey, M	Did not start

Mens Intermediate 8+	Cork	Row over (private race)

Mens Intermediate 4+	Cork	Row over (private race)
	UCDBC A	Did not start (private race)
	UCDBC B	Did not start (private race)

Mens Intermediate 2-	Neptune	1st
	Shannon	2nd
	Commercial	3rd

Mens Intermediate 2X	Garda	1st
	Shandon	2nd
	Lee	3rd
	Commercial	Competed
	Sligo	Competed
	QUBBC A	Did not start
	QUBBC B	Did not start

Mens Intermediate 1X	Shandon, Merz, C	1st
	Lee, O'Sullivan, D	2nd
	Commercial, Healy, J	3rd
	Athlone, Munnelly, P	Competed
	Garda, Allen, R	Competed
	Lee, Hill, R	Competed
	Offaly, Gannon, A	Did not start

Mens Club 2 8+	Shandon	Row over (private race)
	UCDBC	Did not start (private race)

Mens Club 2 4X+	Carlow	1st
	Athlone	2nd
	Commercial	3rd

Mens Club 2 1X	Cappoquin, Aherne, S	1st
	Clonmel, Lynch, D	2nd
	Carrick, Earley, T	3rd
	Castleconn, Mozdzer, A	4th
	Athlone, Maloney, M	Competed
	Commercial, Healy, J	Competed
	Commercial, Henry, T	Competed
	Commercial, McMorrough, P	Competed
	Lee, Fitzgerald, R	Competed
	Lee, Sutton, H	Did not start
	Offaly, Hogan, S	Did not start
	QUBBC, Lopez, D	Did not start
	QUBBC, Martin, P	Did not start

Mens Novice 4X+	Neptune	Row over (private race)
	QUBBC	Did not start (private race)

Mens Masters 8+	Commercial / Neptune / Belfast BC / Galway / LEBC (d 436)	1st
	OCBC (e 459)	2nd
	Bann (d 404)	3rd
	Neptune (d 413)	4th

Mens Masters 4+	Galway (d 203)	1st
	Neptune (e 223)	2nd
	Shandon (c 174)	2nd
	Bann A (c 184)	3rd
	Bann B (e 220)	Competed
	OCBC (e 220)	Competed

Mens Masters 1X	Athlone, Gallen, P (f)	Competed
	C of Derry, D'Urso, G (e)	Competed
	Commercial, Crowley, D (d)	Competed
	Commercial, Heavey, M (e)	Competed
	Galway, Heaney, S (d)	Competed
	Offaly, Hogan, S (a)	Competed
	Shandon, Diffley, R (a)	Competed
	Shandon, O'Flynn, B (b)	Competed
	SMRC, McDonnell, S (b)	Competed

Mens J18A 8+	SMRC	Row over (private race)

Mens J18A 4+	Bann	1st
	Athlunkard	2nd
	Cork	Competed
	Pres Cork	Competed
	SMRC A	Competed
	SMRC B	Competed

Mens J18A 4X-	Castleconn	1st
	Commercial	2nd
	Lee	3rd
	Bann	4th
	Pres Cork	Competed

Mens J18A 2-	Bann	1st
	Athlunkard A	2nd
	Athlunkard B	Competed

Mens J18A 2X	Shandon	1st
	Castleconn A	2nd
	Lee B	3rd
	Bann	Competed
	Cappoquin	Competed
	Castleconn B	Competed
	Clonmel	Competed
	Commercial	Competed
	Neptune	Competed
	Pres Cork A	Competed
	Pres Cork B	Competed
	Sligo	Competed
	SMRC	Competed
	Lee A	Did not start

Mens J18A 1X	Athlone, Munnelly, P	1st
	Bann, Mitchell, D	2nd
	Athlone, Hannon, B	Competed
	Carlow, Byrne, S	Competed
	Carlow, Kelly, C	Competed
	Castleconn, McKeon, M	Competed
	Castleconn, Silke, P	Competed
	Clonmel, Lonergan, S	Competed
	Commercial, Baskerville, R	Competed
	Commercial, Beggan, N	Competed
	KHBC, Little, O	Competed
	Lee, Deasy, H	Competed
	Lee, Larkin, D	Competed
	Neptune, Newcombe, L	Competed
	Neptune, Thompson, H	Competed
	Sligo, Hough, C	Competed
	Sligo, Smith, B	Competed
	Carrick, Earley, T	Did not start

Mens J18B 4X+	Athlone	1st
	Pres Cork	2nd
	SMRC	3rd

Mens J16 8+	St Josephs	1st
	Portora	2nd
	SMRC A	3rd
	SMRC B	Competed

Mens J16 4X+	Cork	1st
	3 Castles	2nd
	Pres Cork	3rd
	Athlone	Competed
	Carlow A	Competed
	Carlow B	Competed
	Commercial	Competed
	Neptune	Competed
	Portora	Competed
	SMRC A	Competed
	SMRC B	Competed
	SMRC C	Competed

Mens J16 2X	3 Castles B	1st
	3 Castles A	2nd
	Athlone	Competed
	Carlow A	Competed
	Carlow B	Competed
	Carlow C	Competed
	Carlow D	Competed
	Commercial A	Competed
	Commercial B	Competed
	Cork	Competed
	Lee	Competed
	Neptune	Competed
	Offaly A	Competed
	Offaly B	Competed
	Pres Cork A	Competed
	Pres Cork B	Competed
	SMRC	Competed
	Shandon A	Did not start
	Shandon B	Did not start
	Shandon C	Did not start
	St Josephs	Did not start

Mens J16 1X	Carlow, O'Brien, R	1st
	Lee, Jackson, P	2nd
	Lee, Murphy, T	3rd
	Athlone, Byrne, M	Competed
	Cappoquin, Ballegaard, J	Competed
	Carlow, Duggan, R	Competed
	Carlow, Dunne, A	Competed
	Castleconn, Meehan, D	Competed
	Commercial, Field, O	Competed
	Commercial, Meehan, E	Competed
	Commercial, O Toole, O	Competed
	Commercial, O'Neill, J	Competed
	Offaly, Cumming, B	Competed
	3 Castles, Irwin, A	Competed

Mens J15 8+	Portora	1st
	Pres Cork	2nd

Mens J15 4X+	Shandon	1st
	Commercial	2nd
	Neptune	3rd
	Carlow	Competed
	Galway	Competed
	Portora	Competed
	Pres Cork A	Competed
	Pres Cork B	Competed
	SMRC	Competed
	Cappoquin	Did not start
	St Josephs A	Did not start
	St Josephs B	Did not start

Mens J15 2X	Shandon A	1st
	Shandon B	2nd
	Commercial	3rd
	Athlone	Competed
	Carlow	Competed
	Neptune	Competed
	Portora	Competed
	SMRC	Competed

Mens J15 1X	Carlow, Kelly, C	Competed
	Carlow, Mead, H	Competed
	Commercial, Holton, A	Competed
	Commercial, Lynch, C	Competed
	CRCC, Allison, M	Competed
	Lee, Murphy, T	Competed
	Offaly, Brennan, C	Competed
	Offaly, Cumming, O	Competed
	Portora, Blake, R	Competed
	Portora, Kennedy, J	Competed
	Portora, McBrien, M	Competed
	Portora, McCutcheon, A	Competed
	Shandon, Arrigan, J	Competed
	Shandon, Byrne, A	Competed
	Shandon, Gaffney, E	Competed
	Shandon, O'Neill, S	Competed
	Shandon, Ronayne, W	Competed
	SMRC, O'Byrne, D	Competed
	SMRC, Spelman, R	Competed
	Carlow, Keating, J	Did not start

Mens J14 4X+	St Josephs A	1st
	Shandon	2nd
	Portora	3rd
	CRCC	4th
	St Josephs B	Did not start
	St Josephs C	Did not start

Mens J14 2X	Shandon B	1st
	3 Castles	2nd
	Shandon A	3rd
	Bann	Competed
	Cappoquin	Competed
	Carlow	Competed
	CRCC	Competed
	St Josephs	Did not start

Mens J14 1X	Bann, Clark, T	Competed
	Carlow, Slattery, H	Competed
	CRCC, O Muirnin, T	Competed
	Portora, Balcombe, S	Competed
	Portora, Bell, A	Competed
	Portora, Stewart, C	Competed
	Portora, Stewart, M	Competed
	Shandon, Cosgrave, D	Competed
	Shandon, Leggett, J	Competed
	3 Castles, Flynn, L	Competed
	3 Castles, Keogh, A	Competed
	St Josephs, Bradley, B	Did not start
	St Josephs, Daly, A	Did not start
	St Josephs, Harry, H	Did not start

Womens Senior 1X	3 Castles, Quinn, B	1st
	Garda, Gannon, L	2nd
	SMRC, O'Sullivan, A	3rd
	Commercial, Edwards, C	Competed

Womens Intermediate 4+	Bann	1st
	Garda	2nd
	Commercial	Competed

Womens Intermediate 2X	Garda	1st
	SMRC	2nd
	Castleconn	3rd
	Carlow	Competed
	Commercial	Competed

Womens Club 2 8+	Neptune	Row over (private race)
	Commercial	Did not start (private race)

Womens Club 2 4X+	Commercial	1st
	Cappoquin	2nd

Womens Club 2 1X	Lee, Keane, F	1st
	Lee, Row-Ham, C	2nd
	Garda, Moore, M	3rd
	Lee, Brozio, M	Competed
	Lee, Murphy, C	Competed
	3 Castles, Greve O' Meara, J	Competed
	Garda, Galvin, L	Did not start

Womens Novice 4X+	NUIG	1st
	Castleconn	2nd
	Sligo	3rd

Womens J18A 8+	Bann	1st
	SMRC	2nd
	Portora	3rd

Womens J18A 4-	Bann	1st
	SMRC	2nd

Womens J18A 4X-	Lee	1st
	Bann	2nd
	Carlow	3rd
	Cork	Competed

Womens J18A 2-	Cork	1st
	Lee	2nd

Womens J18A 2X	Lee A	1st
	Neptune	2nd
	Lee B	3rd
	Cork A	Competed
	Cork B	Competed
	Offaly	Competed

Womens J18A 1X	Offaly, Mooney, A	1st
	SMRC, Murphy, S	2nd
	Neptune, Feerick, C	3rd
	Cappoquin, Murphy, L	Competed
	Lee, Brozio, M	Competed
	Lee, Cummins, E	Competed
	Lee, Keane, F	Competed
	Lee, McMcguire, C	Competed
	Lee, Murphy, C	Competed
	Lee, Row-Ham, C	Competed
	Shandon, Keeley, F	Competed
	Shandon, Power, F	Competed
	Athlone, Faller, U	Did not start
	Athlone, Lemass, C	Did not start
	Carrick, Duggan, T	Did not start
	Neptune, Byrne, A	Did not start
	Offaly, Murphy, A	Did not start

Womens J18B 4X+	Carlow	1st
	Cork	2nd
	Athlone	Competed
	Neptune	Competed

Womens J16 8+	Commercial	1st
	Portora	2nd
	Shandon	3rd

Womens J16 4X+	Commercial	1st
	Carlow	2nd
	Cork	3rd
	Athlone A	Competed
	Athlone B	Competed
	Shandon A	Competed
	Shandon B	Competed
	SMRC	Competed

Womens J16 2X	Cork	1st
	SMRC A	2nd
	Carlow	3rd
	Athlone A	Competed
	Athlone B	Competed
	Cappoquin	Competed
	Sligo	Competed
	SMRC B	Competed

Womens J16 1X	Castleconn, Hogan, N	1st
	Carrick, Duggan, T	2nd
	Carlow, Webster, C	3rd
	Cork, Dupuis, H	Competed
	Cork, Mackey, J	Competed
	Cork, Mallen, V	Competed
	Cork, McCarthy, C	Competed
	Cork, Murphy, S	Competed
	Offaly, McKeagney, E	Competed

Womens J15 8+	Portora	Row over (private race)

Womens J15 4X+	Cork A	1st
	Carlow	3rd
	Shandon	3rd
	Athlone	Competed
	Cork B	Competed
	Galway	Competed
	Portora	Competed
	SMRC	Competed

Womens J15 2X	Cork A	1st
	Cork B	2nd
	Athlone	Competed
	Galway	Competed
	SMRC	Competed

Womens J15 1X	Shandon, Crowley, J	1st
	Commercial, McCannon, S	2nd
	SMRC, McMahon Lowe, C	3rd
	Commercial, O Toole, D	Competed
	Shandon, Dineen, M	Competed
	Shandon, Harrington, J	Competed

Womens J14 4X+	Bann	1st
	Carlow	2nd
	Athlone	3rd
	Portora	Competed
	SMRC	Competed

Womens J14 2X	Cork	1st
	Athlone A	2nd
	Athlone B	Competed
	CRCC	Competed
	Offaly	Competed
	SMRC	Competed

Womens J14 1X	Athlone, Cooke, L	Competed
	Athlone, Donovan, H	Competed
	Commercial, McCannon, S	Competed
	Commercial, O Toole, D	Competed
	Cork, Duggan, J	Competed
	Cork, O'Sullivan, C	Competed
	CRCC, Comber, H	Competed
	CRCC, Hartigan, E	Competed
	Offaly, Murphy, A	Competed
	Portora, Conway, R	Competed
	Portora, Hutton, D	Competed
	Portora, Mackin, M	Competed
	Portora, Wilson, V	Competed
	SMRC, Prendergast, G	Did not start

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15th June 2014

Portora Turn it up To Eleven at Athlone Regatta

#ROWING: Portora won the Stephen Doran prize for best club at Athlone Regatta on Saturday. The Enniskillen club won a remarkable 11 finals, including clean sweeps of the men’s and women’s junior 18, junior 16 and junior 15 eights – with Bann of Coleraine coming in second in the junior 18 races. Portora also won the junior men’s coxed four and junior women’s coxless four.

The men’s senior single sculls winner was Turlough Hughes of UCD, with Damien Kelly of Garda second. Conor Carmody of Shannon won the junior 18 single sculls.

Kenmare celebrated their recent affiliation to Rowing Ireland by recording their first win – in the men’s noviced coxed quadruple sculls.

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