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A body has been recovered in the search for a person missing after a fishing boat sank in Carlingford Lough on Tuesday afternoon (2 June), as BreakingNews.ie reports. A major multi-agency search and rescue operation was launched after the alarm…
Analysis by Tom MacSweeney Rebuilding trust is difficult to do, but that is at the core of the detailed report by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Marine Affairs into the operation of Ireland’s sea fisheries protection system. Can…
Ombudsman To Oversee Fisheries Protection Called for In Oireachtas Committee Report
26th May 2026 SFPA
An Oireachtas committee has called for an Ombudsman to be appointed to consider complaints and to interrogate the effectiveness of the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA). It also calls for an “immediate assessment” to be conducted at the various fishery…
The Department of Transport has been informed that the Irish Air Corps intends to conduct an air-to-ground firing exercise within the confines of the EID1 Danger Area firing range, east of Gormanston in Co Meath, this week. Defence Forces personnel…
Oireachtas Committee Report Calls For More Resources for ORE Planning and Consenting Authorities
22nd May 2026 Marine Planning
Planning and consenting authorities involved in applications for offshore renewable energy (ORE) projects need to be given better resources, an Oireachtas committee report says. Measures supporting the filling of positions, in particular the National Parks and Wildlife Service, which are…
The bodies of four Italian divers reported missing last week have been located in an underwater cave in the Maldives. As The Guardian reports, three Finnish diving experts confirmed that the bodies of the four are inside a cave at…
Best International Practice In Marine Protected Areas on Oireachtas Committee Agenda
18th May 2026 Oireachtas
The Joint Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs is due to discuss best international practices in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) at its meeting today (Tues 19). The meeting at 11am in Committee Room 2 of Leinster House, Dublin, will hear…
A search is continuing for the bodies of four of five Italian divers who died during a cave diving expedition in the Maldives. As BBC News reports, four of the divers were part of a University of Genoa team, including…
The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy will travel to Wexford today (Friday, May 15) for an off-site meeting to examine the progress at Lady’s Island Lake, Co Wexford. The committee, chaired by Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí, has previously…
Afloat.ie regrets to record the deaths of senior sailing sisters Susan Gray and Jennifer Hudson of Dun Laoghaire. They were the daughters of Toby Millar, architect to the Bank of Ireland, who was a leading sailing figure in Howth in…
Ted Turner, legendary American communications and business pioneer, and arguably the most accomplished international yachtsman of the 20th Century, has died at the age of 87. His extraordinary life covered a very wide range of active interests. But for the…
Gordon Ingate, one of Australia's greatest sailors over a varied career afloat of nine decades, has died a few weeks after the world of sailing joined in celebrating his hundredth birthday. Regular visitors to Afloat.ie will be well aware of…
Harvesting of wild seaweed is to be discussed by the Joint Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs on Tuesday. The meeting at 11am in Committee Room 2 of Leinster House will run two sessions and will hear from: 11am –…
Tributes are being paid to Dublin Bay sailor Charlie McKean, who died during Saturday’s opening race of the 2026 Dublin Bay Sailing Club summer season. As Afloat reported earlier, the incident occurred in the DBSC Cruisers One fleet on Dublin…
Former ISORA offshore champion Matt Davis of Skerries has died following an illness. He was 49, just one month away from his 50th birthday. Davis, a two-time ISORA champion in 2010 and 2011, was best known as helm of the Sigma…
The Irish sailing community may think of John Gore-Grimes of Howth, who has died at the age of 84 after a long and very fulfilled life, as primarily being one of our own. We think of him as a “sailing…
