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#OnTV - The first episode of Bobby Kerr-fronted UTV Ireland series Along Home Shores comes this Thursday 27 October at 7.30pm and explores Dublin’s waterways, with a visit to the famous wallabies of Lambay Island. Afloat.ie reported last month on…

#OnTV - ​Filming has commenced for the new UTV Ireland programme Along Home Shores. ​​The eight-part TV series is focusing on the waterways of Ireland, with each show examining inland, coastal and offshore lives in a different region of the…

A synopsis of Junes' Sailing TV Show. Scroll down for the show below. Privateer versus professional, two approaches to the Games Four time Finn World Champion Giles Scott has four boats, three training partners as well as one of the…

'Bádóirí–photographing the last of the Galway Hooker Men’ a documentary by sailor and photographer Joe St. Leger will air on RTE One television on Monday 23rd May 2016 at 7.30pm. The film relates the story of these unique Irish workboats and…

#GalwayHooker - Tune in to TG4 tonight (Saturday 2 January) at 8.30pm for a special look back at the first Galway Hooker race from Aran to Kerry almost three decades ago. Rás na Húicéirí go Ciarraí 1987 features highlights of…

#CorkMegaPort - 'Cork Mega Port' the hugely popular first series which aired last year returns with a second series commissioned by TV3 and which is to feature daily life in the Port of Cork. The fly on the wall style…

#OnTV - The north Dublin fishing village of Howth will feature in the latest episode of BBC's Coast this coming Thursday 30 July. Presenters Nick Crane and Tessa Dunlop cross the Irish Sea to explore Dublin Bay's deep symbiotic connection…

#OnTV - The fruits of John Creedon's epic journey along the full length of the Wild Atlantic Way will be for all to see when the first of his new three-part TV series airs on RTÉ One tomorrow evening. Creedon’s…

#Shannon - Viewers in the UK and Ireland will have another opportunity to catch an award-winning wildlife documentary on the River Shannon this Sunday 19 July on BBC Two. Broadcast last night (Thursday 16 July) as part of the channel's…

#creedonswildatlanticway – The Wild Atlantic Way, the magnificent West Coast of Ireland - is it the 'land of your heart's desire', as described by William Butler Yeats? RTE's John Creedon is about to find out in his new 3 part…

#OnTV - A boatbuilding project on the shores of Lough Ree will feature in a segment of tonight's Nationwide on RTÉ One from 7pm. The 'Mens Shed' scheme for the Lanesborough-Ballyleague area – as part of a job activation and…

#naomheanna – Donncha Mac Con Iomaire's maritime programme on the Naomh Éanna ship airs tonight on TG4 at 21:30. Rusted and with little future she was sentenced to be scrapped, until a few men embarked on a plan to bring…

#portofcork – Following on from the huge success of TV3's– 'Cork Mega Port' in April 2014, TV3 have commissioned a second series with another four episodes, due to air in 2015. This fly on the wall style documentary will once…

#OnTV – It may be the final episode of 'Ade to Sea' (tomorrow, Thursday on UTV at 8.30pm) however England's North West and notably the Manchester Ship Canal are to feature topics, among them those previously covered on Afloat.ie, writes…

#OnTV - Hector Ó hEochagáin returns to our screens tonight with a new four-part series of Hector Goes, beginning with a spot of fishing in Ireland's coastal waters. Getting his orange combi van back on the road, Hector explores the…

#OnTV - Tonight BBC One Northern Ireland is to broadcast "Belfast City: Mud, Sweat and 400 Years". The documentary starting at 22.35 is presented by former army engineer Dick Strawbridge who knows a thing or two about incredible feats of…