Blue Flag 2020 | Did your Beach get a Blue Flag this Year?
There were 90 Blue Flags and 60 Green Coast Awards awarded this year by An Taisce. The Blue Flag programme raises environmental…
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Prestigious Blue Flag awards announced. Did your favourite beach make the cut?
This year’s Blue Flag beaches were announced earlier today at a ceremony held at The Armada Hotel overlooking Spanish point Blue Flag…
Record number of Irish beaches awarded the prestigious Blue Flag award
This year’s Blue Flag beaches were announced earlier today at a ceremony in Bray with a record 83 Irish beaches and seven…
Purest Shores: Are these Ireland’s best Blue flag beaches?
You should want every beach in Ireland you visit to have the coveted ‘Blue flag’. Because essentially it means everything about you visit…
Join the Go Atlantic Blue Campaign for World Oceans Day | 8th June
Famous buildings and landmarks across Ireland are set to ‘Go Atlantic Blue’ over the weekend 7th -10th June to celebrate our connection…
Man bitten by Blue Shark while Angling, Crosshaven RNLI to the rescue
It’s not everyday someone gets bitten by a shark off the coast of Ireland. In fact, it’s difficult to find information on…
Ireland’s blue economy bears innovative fruit
The growth of Ireland’s blue economy is a testament to both effective management and strong indigenous enterprise. After years of improving management efforts…
On Bloomsday: A look around Joyce’s Sandycove Martello Tower
It’s the Martello tower here in Sandycove Dublin, where James Joyce briefly stayed in 1904, that provided the opening location to his much…
Cork School wins prestigious Clean Coasts Award Four Years in a Row
Cork Education and Training Board’s (CETB) St. Colman’s Community College Midleton has been named Clean Coast’s Ocean Hero School of the Year…
Enjoy a Maritime History Weekend at Rosses Point | 20th-22nd October
The coastal village of Rosses Point, Co. Sligo is the perfect setting for the second annual Maritime Heritage Weekend 2017. Famed for…
The Lowdown on Irish Beaches: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
It’s an impressive haul, eighty-eight blue flag beaches around the country, and it’s something we should be rightly proud of. But looking a little…
Irish Coastal Directory
Irish Coast Directory The best of Ireland’s maritime heritage, coastal locations and marine infrastructure. Coastal Events – Directory of what’s on around the…
Careful now! This is your easy Jellyfish Identification Guide
It’s that time of the year when the warmer waters around our coast see a huge rise in jellyfish activity. Moon, Barrel…
Mission Accomplished! DIAS Scientists successfully retrieve Seismometers from the Deep Atlantic
Unique ocean-bottom recordings of North Atlantic earthquakes and the songs of great baleen whales have been obtained thanks to one of the…
Set Sail for SeaFest – Ireland’s Maritime Festival this weekend in Cork
The maritime celebrations in Cork continue this weekend with Seafest, Ireland’s largest free family-friendly maritime festival taking place at the Port of…
Get Yer Boots On! Six Great Irish Coastal Walks for the Weekend
We’re really starting to see the stretch in the days and it’s looking like a cool and warm weekend – great weather…
Our Ocean Wealth | Mary Robinson talks climate change and consequences for most vulnerable
The Our Ocean Wealth Summit began today, the first of two days where the movers and shakers in the maritime world meet…
Winners Announced! UNESCO Dublin Bay Biosphere Underwater Photo Competition
Ever wondered what marine life we have in Dublin Bay? Well, the winners of the UNESCO Dublin Bay Biosphere Underwater photography competition have…
Great News for Cork | City to host European Maritime Day 2020
Cork has been announced as the designated host city for European Maritime Day in 2020 by the Council of the European Union….
Help Keep our Beaches Beautiful with a Quick #2MinuteBeachClean
Clean Coasts have just released an excellent new #2MinuteBeachClean video featuring Irish comedian Colm O’Regan reprising his role as part-time philosopher, full-time human Benicio Sandz….
Poems from the Coast | Quayside Authority by Daniel Wade
Poems from the Coast | A Poetry Series This is the first in a series of Irish maritime inspired poems by the…
Six great coastal walks for the sunny Bank Holiday weekend
What an amazing few days it’s been? Wall to wall sunshine and our fair weather friends the weathermen have forecast it to…