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Tokyo Olympian Liam Jegou will compete in the C1 Canoe Slalom event
Team Ireland will have strong representation in the Canoeing events at the European Games in Krakow, with eight Canoe Slalom athletes and one Canoe Sprint athlete named by the Olympic Federation of Ireland today. Jenny Egan is the sole competitor…
File image of the Irish Coast Guard’s Waterford-based helicopter Rescue 117
A kitesurfer who sustained serious injuries in an incident in Co Wexford on Sunday (28 May) is expected to make a full recovery. As the Wexford People reports, the casualty had been kitesurfing on Lady’s Island Lake south of Rosslare…
The Glenamurra River in Co Mayo
Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has announced the 24 projects awarded a total of €999,272 from the Salmon and Sea Trout Rehabilitation, Conservation and Protection Fund. The competitive fund, administered by IFI, supports sustainable development initiatives to ensure native salmon and…
The Ireland Men's Four of John Kearney, Ross Corrigan, Nathan Timoney and Fionnán McQuillan-Tolan narrowly missed out on a third-place finish in the B Final at the 2023 European Rowing Championships on Lake Bled, Slovenia
The European Rowing Championships on Lake Bled, Slovenia are over, and Ireland won't be coming home with any medals. Brian Colsh showed his strength in the middle of the C Final of the Men's Scull. Passing the first 500m mark…
A Barrel jellyfish
Barrel jellyfish have been washing up in unusually large numbers along the entire coastline as far as Cork in the past few months. As The Irish Times reports, sightings have been recorded from Lough Foyle off Derry, right around to…
The Women's Four of Eimear Lambe, Tara Hanlon, Fiona Murtagh and Aifric Keogh finished fifth in the A Final Day 3 of the European Rowing Championships on Lake Bled in Slovenia
Day three of the European Rowing Championships on Lake Bled in Slovenia saw the A Finals of Ireland's Women's Four, Lightweight Women's Double and Lightweight Men's Double. Three finals are now completed and seven more are to come. Philip Doyle…
The Irish Women's Double of Zoe Hyde and Sanita Puspure won their Repechage and are heading to the A Final of the of European Rowing Championships on Lake Beld, Slovenia on Sunday afternoon
Day two of the European Rowing Championships on Lake Bled, Slovenia is over, and it was another busy day of racing for Irish crews. Margaret Cremen and Aoife Casey were first up this morning in the Repechage of the Lightweight…
The MV Shingle which had lain idle in Dublin Port (as above within Alexandra Basin) for almost a decade, however may be sunk in a plan to create an artificial reef in Killala Bay, Co. Mayo. The small cargo ship was seized in 2014 following the busting of a major tobacco smuggling operation that took place in the Irish Sea where the vessel was arrested and escorted to Drogheda Port before relocating to the capital.
A small ship that had been languishing in Dublin Port for almost a decade is at the centre of a plan that is progressing to sink the vessel off the north coast of Mayo in order to create an artificial…
The Irish Fish Producers Organisation has issued a call for urgent funding for the pelagic sector, to address the loss of €28m from Brexit’s impact. IFPO chief executive, Aodh O Donnell criticised the failure to implement pelagic measures amounting to…
Ireland's Women's Four of Eimear Lambe, Tara Hanlon, Fiona Murtagh and Aifric Keogh competing on day one of the European Rowing Championships on Lake Bled in Slovenia
Katie O'Brien and Steven McGowan had a strong race in the PR2 Mixed Double, staying in touch with Ukraine and Poland from the start on day one fo the European Rowing Championships on Lake Bled, Slovenia. Winding it up coming…
A Galway hooker sails by during An Tóstal Currach Racing Festival in Salthill, Galway
The organisers of Tóstal na Gaillimhe in Galway’s Salthill say the revived event earlier this month was so successful that they intend to invite more traditional Irish rowing clubs and teams from home and abroad next year. A “tight” senior…
This Pacific pink salmon caught from the Ridge Pool in the Moy Fishery on Sunday 27 June is the first reported sighting of 2021
Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) is urging anglers and the general public to report sightings of Pacific pink salmon in Irish rivers over the coming months. In 2017, 2019 and 2021, this non-native fish species unexpectedly appeared in unprecedented numbers in…
Hugh Moore and Fintan McCarthy (above) compete in the Men's Double at the 2023 European Rowing Championships on Lake Bled
The 2023 European Rowing Championships begins tomorrow morning in Bled, Slovenia. All ten of the crews from Ireland will race tomorrow in the heats. The PR2 Mix2x of Katie O'Brien and Steven McGowan will first hit the water at the…
The SFPA says spurdog caught over 100cm in size must be “promptly returned to the sea in a way that does not harm the individual”, and must be recorded in logbooks
Inshore fishermen say that new EU regulations on spurdog make the re-opened fishery less worthwhile. The Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) has published regulations for the commercial fishery of spurdog in north-western waters, noting that it had been a prohibited…
Pictured onboard the Eblana, in Howth, at the launch of SFPA’s Skates and Rays of Ireland Guide, are from left: Gary Hannon, Sea-Fisheries Protection Officer, SFPA and John Lynch, CEO, Irish South and East Fish Producers Organisation
The Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) today, 19th May 2023, launched their guide, Skates and Rays of Ireland 2023. 16 species of skates and rays are regularly caught in Irish waters, some of which can be fished commercially under quota restrictions…
The RNLB Killarney from Kilmore Quay
Kilmore Quay RNLI last night came to the aid of an injured fisherman on board a fishing vessel 33 nautical miles south of Kilmore Quay. The volunteer crew were requested to launch their all-weather Tamar class lifeboat Killarney by the…

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