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Seascapes returns for an hour-long look back at 2025 on RTÉ Radio 1 this Friday night. Highlights include interviews with marine cameraman Seamus Hayes, surfing GP Dr Katie McAnena and European Fisheries Control Agency executive director Dr Susan Steele. The…
Vice Admiral Mark Mellett, chair of the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority (MARA)
“We simply can’t have it every way...” A stark warning from Vice Admiral Mark Mellett, chair of the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority (MARA), speaking on RTÉ Radio 1 Seascapes last Friday. He was commenting on the recent International Council for…
Dr Susan Steele, chief executive of the EFCA
How Europe’s fisheries control agency is headed by a woman from West Cork and why artists are continuously drawn to west coast islands were among topics covered on the latest edition of RTÉ Radio 1 Seascapes. Dr Susan Steele, chief…
The MS Queen Anne, operated by Cunard Line, visited Ireland in May, including stops in Dublin Bay and Cork Harbour. The ship can accommodate up to 2,996 passengers and is the second-largest in Cunard's fleet after the RMS Queen Mary 2.
The cruise ship business is worth 100 million euro to the Irish economy, and is an instrument for attracting visitors back to Ireland, according to Cruise Ireland chairman Conor Mowlds. He spoke to this week’s RTÉ Radio 1 Seascapes programme…
EU Fisheries and Oceans Commissioner Costas Kadis was presented with a sculpture of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse when he visited Castletownbere (centre). With him are (from left to right) Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation chief executive Dominic Rihan, Irish South and West Fish Producers’ Organisation chief executive Patrick Murphy, Minister of State for Fisheries and Environment Timmy Dooley, Irish Fish Processors’ and Exporters’ Association chief executive Brendan Byrne, Irish Fish Producers’ Organisation chief executive Aodh O Donnell, and Aisling Moran and Seamus Bonner of the Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation.
EU Fisheries and Oceans Commissioner Costas Kadis has said that last week's fisheries deal between Europe and Britain could have been so much worse. Speaking to RTÉ Radio 1 Seascapes in Castletownbere, West Cork on Friday, Commissioner Kadis said the…
Sligo-based GP Dr Katie McAnena, who is originally from Galway, has been a long-time Irish windsurfing champion, and is interviewed on RTÉ's Seascapes as it returns to Radio One this Friday evening
Mixed views on plans for offshore wind in the Irish Sea and the west coast GP who windsurfs are among topics on Seascapes, the RTÉ maritime programme, which returns for a six-week run this Friday, May 9th. The programme hears…
Galway RNLI lifeboat operations manager Mike Swan
How a wise kayaker rescued by east Cork’s Ballycotton lifeboat signed up as a volunteer and Galway city’s cross-agency rapid rescue system are among topics on RTÉ Radio 1’s special Seascapes series tonight. The final episode of the three-part series…
RNLI Trustee Paddy McLaughlin, also a volunteer at Red Bay RNLI in Cushendall, pictured with Stephen Conway, Red Bay RNLI Lifeboat
A man overboard exercise with Antrim’s Red Bay all-weather lifeboat and the experience of a dog walker rescued by Cork Harbour’s Crosshaven lifeboat are among topics on tonight’s (Fri, March 22) RTÉ Radio 1 special issue of Seascapes. The programme,…
Aran island lifeboat coxswain Aonghus Ó hIarnáin and the O'Connell family - Daniel, Lena, Lena's mother Margaret Gill, and Jack and Olive (their younger brother Eoghan had left for a match)
An Aran island family with several generations of volunteering with the RNLI lifeboat are featured in the first episode of a special series of RTÉ Radio 1’s Seascapes to mark the RNLI’s bicentenary. The three-part series also carries an interview…
RTE correspondent Fergal Keane has revealed he is hanging up his mic after 40 years
Many tributes have been paid to RTÉ Radio One Seascapes presenter and producer Fergal Keane, who has announced he is leaving the national broadcaster to pursue new interests. Keane announced his departure on Twitter on March 16th, and on-air during…
Change of helm – Taking over from Marcus (right) on the maritime programme on RTE Radio 1 commencing Friday 23rd June will be RTE Correspondent Fergal Keane
Hello and welcome aboard this week’s edition of your maritime programme Seascapes, tonight we hear about the commemoration of the United States Navy in Cobh one hundred years ago we’ll be talking to Commander Taussig’s great grand daughter Elizabeth Helmer,…
French Destroyer 'Maillé Brézé' afire and sinking at Greenock, Scotland, on 30 April 1940, after the accidental launching of one of her torpedoes
Hello and welcome aboard this week’s edition of your maritime programme Seascapes this week writer and broadcaster Hugh Oram on the Free French in Greenock in Scotland and hear from an eye witness to events seventy seven years ago author…
Taking the helm from Marcus (right) on the maritime programme on RTE Radio 1 commencing Friday 23rd June will be RTE Correspondent Fergal Keane
Marcus Connaughton is set to retire from RTE and present his final edition of the maritime programme Seascapes on RTE Radio 1 on Bloomsday - Friday 16th June on the eve of his 65th birthday.Marcus is a veteran of the…
Marcus Connaughton, Presenter of Seascapes
Hello and welcome aboard this week’s edition of your maritime programme Seascapes, later this evening we’ll hear from Fergal Keane who attended the recent Angling Show at the National Show Centre in North County Dublin;  we’ll hear from writer and…
Bray Harbour silt–up problems in County Wicklow
Hello and welcome aboard this week’s edition of Seascapes your maritime programme, tonight our thoughts are with the family and friends of the missing crew members from the Irish Coastguard Sikorsky S -92 Rescue Helicopter 116 lost off the West…
The 'Trainee of the Year' went to Ross Moore, a trainee on board the Erasmus+ youth exchange Morgenster Voyage had countless votes of support from trainees, crew and mentors on board for this award, he was very open and inclusive of everyone on board- he really used this experience to learn about himself and about others
Hello and welcome aboard this week’s edition of your maritime programme – Seascapes, writer and broadcaster Norman Freeman on playwright Eugene O’Neill; we congratulate Emeritus Professor Tony Lewis who is honoured by the French with the Chevalier des Palmes Académiques;…