All Ireland Sailing Championships News and Results
Olympic silver medallist Annalise Murphy and Barry McCartin have been crowned Irish Sailing’s 2026 Dinghy Champions after winning a six-boat final on Dublin Bay on Sunday. Murphy and McCartin produced the strongest performance across three final races in the supplied…
Tim Norwood and Luke Donagh scored three straight wins as the Irish Sailing Dinghy Champions’ Cup opened at the Royal St George Yacht Club in Dún Laoghaire. Tim Norwood and crew Luke Donagh produced a clean sweep on the opening…
Sailing’s Championship of Champions Gets Fresh Head of Steam With 80th Anniversary On Horizon
3rd October 2026 All Irelands
The new-look Championship of Champions is taking place during this and next weekend, with the Dinghy Championship starting this morning for two days at Royal St George YC in Dun Laoghaire racing Melges 15s with GP14 ace Ger Owens of…
Afloat.ie regrets to record the death of noted former Cork Harbour sailor David Gay. Although he had lived in County Kilkenny for the last 20 years, for many decades he was one of the leading figures in CorkHarbour sailing, successfully…
J24 World Champion Euro and National Champion Cillian Dickson of Lough Ree Yacht Club added a further victory to his stellar season when he was crowned Champion of Champions at the newly formatted Irish Sailing Keelboat Champions’ Cup, hosted by…
Two Races Sailed as Light Winds Disrupt Irish Sailing Keelboat Champions Cup Qualifiers
11th October 2025 All Irelands
Light winds cut short the opening day of the Irish Sailing Keelboat Champions Cup on Dublin Bay on Saturday (October 11th). Only two races were completed in Qualifying Series A, with none sailed in Series B following the abandonment of…
The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away……With this weekend’s staging of the Keelboat All-Ireland Championship in the J/80s provided by the Irish National Sailing School at the Royal Irish YC in Dun Laoghaire following hot on the heels of the…
Owens and Killian Win Irish Sailing Dinghy Champions’ Cup at Royal Cork
5th October 2025 All Irelands
GP14 duo Ger Owens and Ross Killian have won the Irish Sailing Dinghy Champions’ Cup at Royal Cork Yacht Club after a three-way points tie-breaking victory. The pair finished first overall after four races, with scores of 1, 6, 4, and 1. Their…
Storm Amy has cut the Dinghy Champions' event, formerly the Helmsmans, from a weekend to one day of racing in Cork Harbour. The event, once known as the Helmsman’s Championships, will feature 11 dinghy class champions who will race in…
The 2025 Irish Sailing Champions’ Cup will be run under a new format. The event will be split between Dinghy and Keelboat sailing for the first time. It’s been 78 years since the Irish Sailing Champions’ Cup was inception, and…
Robert Espey and Mike Ferguson of Ballyholme are October "Sailors of the Month (Inshore Racing)
1st November 2024 Sailor of the Month
There was a remarkable display of sometimes flamboyant sailing talent making the scene for the Championship of Champions 2024 in the Royal North of Ireland YC's RS400s at Cultra on Belfast Lough in October. Yet while other household names in…
It has been quite the weekend for sailing all over Ireland, with flashes of pure sunlit joy. This was despite a weather prognosis which, at its gloomiest, had suggested that there might be no significant sailing at all anywhere. An…
Ballyholme Yacht Club's Robert Espey is Irish Sailing Champions’ Cup Winner
6th October 2024 All Irelands
Robert Espey of Ballyholme Yacht Club is the winner of this year’s Irish Sailing Champions’ Cup which took place at Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club in Cultra, Co. Down after a string of strong results. Espey, who raced on…
The highly anticipated Irish Sailing Champions' Cup, which was set to kick off today at the Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club in Co. Down, has been postponed due to unfavourable weather conditions. AP over A was flown from the…
All weather forecast models are agreeing that the coming weekend is going to be very wet and windy at some stage in Ireland, with some suggesting that the unfavourable sailing conditions will persist through both Saturday and Sunday. It's a…
Irish Sailing Champions' Cup Returns This Weekend at Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club
1st October 2024 Irish Sailing
The Irish Sailing Champions’ Cup makes its return this weekend, the 5 – 6 October, at the Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club in Co. Down. This annual event, renowned for showcasing Ireland’s top sailing talent, marks its 77th year.…
