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The Water Wag race this evening at Dun Laoghaire Harbour was the Royal Irish Yacht Club (RIYC) Regatta race. Race Officer Tadgh Donnelly had to raise the AP three times due to shifting winds, eventually starting one hour and six…

Wednesday 1900hrs: When Pete Smyth and his weary and calm-plagued crew with the Ker 46 Searcher finally finished the SSE Renewables Round Ireland Race at 15:32 this (Wednesday) afternoon, it was intriguing to note that they'd sailed 63 miles less…

Mystic Meg will shortly retire to the Wicklow hills, satisfied with her 2024 Round Ireland Race predictions. Once the weather pattern emerged, it was not a hard task, but the size of the leads over the next boats at the…

A Social Democrats TD has called on Waterways Ireland to provide “full” and “urgent” clarity on its proposed works along the banks of the Grand Canal. Gary Gannon, who is a Social Democrats TD for the Dublin Central constituency, has…

Marine Minister Charlie McConalogue, T.D., held a crucial meeting with representatives from the fishing industry on Tuesday evening, June 25th. The discussions centred around the upcoming 2025 fishing opportunity negotiations and were reported to be 'quite productive'. The gathering was…

Connemara-based Killary Adventure Company has secured a new global environment and social responsibility certification. The company says it is among the first businesses in Ireland to achieve the prestigious B Corp certification. The certification is held by over 1,300 companies…

A British aviation and aerospace company has created an Irish subsidiary to supply two King Air aircraft for the new Irish Coast Guard contract. 2Excel Aviation has formed 2Excel Ireland to provide fixed-wing Coast Guard Services for Bristow Ireland. This…

A 64 metre superyacht has berthed recently in Cork’s Kinsale marina. The vessel named Scout was designed by Jonny Horsfield’s H2 Yacht Design. Horsfield, who graduated from Coventry University after studying car design, established his yacht design company in 1994.…

The Fastnet Lighthouse, one of Ireland’s best-known and most iconic lighthouses, with its granite tower off the south Cork coast, is 120 years old tomorrow (27 June). The lighthouse plays as crucial a role in navigation now as it did…

The Cabinet has approved Uisce Éireann’s multi-billion euro plan to extract water from the river Shannon to supply Dublin, the east and midlands region. The project, which aroused some local environmental opposition when first flagged by Uisce Éireann some years…

Every time I hear the beginnings of Sinatra singing The Summer Wind, it's immediately accompanied by personal visions of classic American-designed yachts by Sparkman & Stephens, John Alden, PhilipRhodes or - best of all - Jim McCurdy, sailing serenely in…

A new but delayed £70 million Liverpool Ferry Terminal opened its doors for the first time to passengers yesterday, reports Manx Radio, following the arrival from Douglas of the fast-craft Manannan. The inaugural commercial call of the Isle of Man…

Wednesday 1230 hrs: The meteorological community is in a state of excitement. With climate change and weird weather generally, we’d thought that old-fashioned clearcut low pressure areas heading slightly north of east across the Atlantic were a thing of the…

We've always believed thet all truly good works are best done by stealth, and so it has proved. On Friday night (June 21st, Mad Midsummmer's Day) we heard a whisper that there'd been movement on the entombed Moonduster in Trondheim…

Hong Kong businessman Karl Kwok has entered the TP52 Beau Geste into the 2024 Maples Group IRC European championships at the Royal Irish Yacht Club on Dublin Bay this September. The entry is one of the first of the expected…

Three creative artists from Kerry have produced a special sand art collage on Magherabeg Cut on the shores of Brandon Bay to mark World Sand Dune Day coming this Saturday 29 June. Silke Michels, Zoë Ui Fhaolain Green and Emer…