News on Irish Rowing, Angling, Waterskiing, Canoeing, Diving and Sea Swimming
Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) is to provide more than €1 million to support healthy habitats for fish in rivers nationwide in 2027. In 2026, IFI’s Habitats and Conservation Scheme awarded a total of €763,667 in funding to 18 environmental projects…
A Co Waterford skipper has been fined after pleading guilty to electronic fishing logbook offences. The Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) said that Richard Power, with an address in Co Waterford, pleaded guilty at Waterford District Court on 2 November 2026…
Solo swimmer Daragh Morgan’s circumnavigation of Ireland is the subject of a book just published by the athlete, whose achievement was verified earlier this year by the Irish Long Distance Swimming Association. Morgan, then 27 and from Dunmore East, Co…
Warming seas around Ireland, Britain and the north-east Atlantic could destabilise marine food webs, a newly published study says. Afloat has previously reported on the growing likelihood of marine heatwaves. This could have serious consequences for food security within the…
Marine Wildlife Filmmaker Ken O'Sullivan Tours With Stories From The Sea
8th November 2026 Marine Wildlife
World-renowned marine wildlife filmmaker Ken O'Sullivan is touring Ireland with a new live show entitled Stories from the Sea. He relates his adventures exploring the North Atlantic Ocean, including encounters with pods of sharks and killer whales. He talks about…
Wicklow RNLI volunteers launched both the inshore and all-weather lifeboats on Sunday morning (1 November) following reports of two swimmers in difficulty at Blainroe, south of Wicklow Head. The Irish Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 116 from Dublin, the National Ambulance…
The Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) has issued a safety advisory identifying the reported positions of nine limestone boulders placed on the seabed in the southern North Sea by Greenpeace. The advisory, issued on Wednesday, 4th November, follows Greenpeace's deployment of…
More than 60,000 lobsters, with a combined weight of almost 39 tonnes, were returned to Irish waters under a Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) conservation programme in 2025 – the highest number recorded since legislation protecting V-notched lobsters was introduced 30 years ago.…
Ireland is hosting an international meeting in Dublin this week to discuss issues of global importance for underwater cultural heritage. The National Monuments Service of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is hosting the Group I Regional Meeting…
Kayaking expeditions in Greenland and Mexico, a solo swim around Ireland and long-distance hiking in New Zealand are among the subjects of this year's Kinvara Adventure Talks in Co Galway. The series, now in its 12th year, takes place at…
Applications Open for Appointment to Panel of Surveyors for Surveying Small Fishing Vessels
3rd November 2026 Fishing
The Marine Survey Office (MSO) of the Department of Transport is seeking application for appointment to a panel of surveyors to conduct surveys of fishing vessels of less than 15m length overall. This is in accordance with the Code of…
The environmental organisation, Greenpeace, has issued a statement saying that activists on board its ship, Arctic Sunrise, have dropped boulders weighing several tons onto the seabed off the UK coast, in the Southern North Sea, which it describes as “the…
Wicklow Rowing Club's Kate Dunne produced a battling performance in the Women's Solo Beach Sprints at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games on Monday, 2nd November, going out in the Last 16 against Swiss race favourite Tanya Brendle. The 17-year-old…
Wicklow coastal rower Kate Dunne has become the first Irish athlete to compete in beach sprint rowing at an Olympic event, opening Team Ireland's campaign at the Youth Olympic Games in Dakar, Senegal. The 17-year-old recorded a time of 3:13.98 in Saturday's…
Fianna Fáil MEP Billy Kelleher has taken issue with Sinn Féin’s stance over the allocation to fisheries and aquaculture in the 2027 EU budget. As Afloat has reported, Sinn Féin claimed that only three Irish MEPs, all from the Left,…
Europêche, the leading representative organisation for commercial fishing enterprises in the European Union, has called on the European Commission to include a targeted revision of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) in its 2027 Work Programme, expressing disappointment with the EU’s…
