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Monday (Day 3) 1330hrs – Turckheim is a modest place, a commune in far northeast France close west of Colmar, and midway between Strasbourg and Basel. It has the distinction of being about as far as it is possible to…

The number of personnel in the Naval Service has shrunk to just over 700 while still operating with just a single vessel capable of conducting patrols in the Atlantic Ocean. According to the Defence Forces, the latest available information on…

Mystic Meg notes the overnight developments into day three of the 2024 Round Ireland Race, with significant moves by a secondary group to stay with the on-the-water leaders. Those who managed to get west of the Mizen before 0800 Monday…

New Zealand posted a flawless performance at the New York City SailGP even at the weekend, triumphing over Canada and Emirates GBR and guaranteeing their place in San Francisco’s $2 million Grand Final. A blistering start saw all three teams…

Monday (Day 3) 0730hrs – It was well gone 2200 hrs last night (Sunday) as Round Ireland Race multi-hull leader Paradox (Adam Davis) and IRC monohull front-runner Teasing Machine (Eric de Turckheim) began to feel they were truly into the keenly-anticipated…

The sun shone on the 523 people with physical, sensory, intellectual, and learning disabilities who participated in an outstanding weekend at the sixth annual Watersports Inclusion Games at Lough Ramor, Co. Cavan. The Award-winning Games occurred at Ramor Watersports Club,…

Somewhat unusually for the Round Ireland Race, which has seen much higher attrition rates in past editions, just two boats have retired after a relatively benign opening 24 hours of the 2024 700-miler, much of which was spent almost becalmed…

Geophysical surveys will be undertaken in the Irish Sea off the Wicklow and Wexford coast in the coming weeks to provide site investigation information for the development of the Arklow Bank Wind Park 2 project. The survey campaign will involve…

Nico Poons’ Charisma won the 44Cup Marstrand in 2023 and has been 44Cup champion for the last two season. But some changes in personnel and two deep results in Porto Calero, Lanzarote at the beginning of the year and then…

Skerries RNLI volunteers responded to an emergency 999 call reporting that a dog had fallen from a cliff in Loughshinny shortly before 11am on Saturday morning (22 June). The volunteers in Skerries launched the Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat Louis Simson…

Sunday (Day 2, 1930 hrs):  When the mighty Teasing Machine (Eric de Turckheim) put the Fastnet Rock astern at 1630 hrs this afternoon, she was not only leading the SSE Renewables Round Ireland IRC Fleet on the water by 15…

RTÉ News reports that investigations are under way after a diver died in an incident off Co Donegal on Saturday (22 June). Patrick Doran (49) from Carrick-on-Shannon got into difficulty while on a scheduled dive as part of the North…

24 hours into the Round Ireland Yacht Race, the predicted weather pattern is largely coming true as the bigger and faster boats look likely to benefit first from stronger southerly winds along the west coast and high up in the…

Sunday (Day 2, 1330 hrs): Afloat.ie’s predictor Mystic Meg is currently on the button with the suggestion that the Round Ireland Race’s expected weather pattern of a favourable southerly along the West Coast would suit the bigger boats, as they should…

Sunday (Day 2, 0800 hrs): The first morning of the 2024 SSE Renewables Round Ireland race finds the fleet making progress along the south coast in winds that developed as a night breeze off the land, but looks like fading…

The 44Cup Marstrand is providing the nine teams with the full range of conditions. After a heavy day, a light day, Saturday started strongly with an additional feature: intermittent rain. To recover the lost schedule, four races were held; rain…