Seafood Extravaganza | Get Hooked in Killybegs this Saturday!
Hooked! Killybegs returns this weekend for its third year of celebrating seafood, traditional seafaring and maritime heritage of this premiere Donegal fishing…
Hooked! Killybegs returns this weekend for its third year of celebrating seafood, traditional seafaring and maritime heritage of this premiere Donegal fishing…
August is full to the brim with fantastic festivals so if you love seafood, the great outdoors and maritime heritage you’re really…
The Great Lighthouses of Ireland Partnership, the all-island tourism initiative developed by the Commissioners of Irish Lights, has announced Insomnia Chairman, Entrepreneur…
It’s the end of an era at Dublin Port as the last remaining working dry dock is set to close. The dry dock…
Planning permission has been granted for the installation of the historic Mew Island Optic, a beautifully unique piece of maritime heritage, on…
Summer is in full swing and up and down the country some fantastic festivals are taking place. Get set for an August…
Irish Coast Directory The best of Ireland’s maritime heritage, coastal locations and marine infrastructure. Coastal Events – Directory of what’s on around the…
John de Courcy Ireland was a beloved maritime historian and political activist who did much in his long career to promote and…
On the 10th anniversary of his passing we remember John de Courcy Ireland. Maritime historian and Political activist with a long and illustrious…
Ireland, through its national seabed mapping programme INFOMAR, has achieved global recognition for its effort to systematically map the seabed of its entire…
A Belfast Maritime Consortium led by Artemis Technologies has won a £33 million UK Government innovation grant to develop zero emissions ferries…
Island communities in Ireland can connect up with an estimated 10,000 other islanders across the world in the second ever global Virtual…
While many of us are confined to quarters for the next few weeks we all need something to keep us motivated and…
This August you’ll be spoiled for choice with some of the best seafood and maritime festivals taking place around the coast as…
School’s out and summer is most definitely here! The festival season is now in full swing with plenty of exciting festivals and…
Ireland’s sole surviving ocean going wooden sailing ship, the ‘Ilen’, which was re-built through a community educational programme in Limerick, will set…
Portaferry is preparing for a four-day Sailing and Music and family fun festival which will be the biggest maritime event to come…
Famous buildings and landmarks across Ireland are set to ‘Go Atlantic Blue’ over the weekend 7th -10th June to celebrate our connection…
April is here and with it comes warmer weather and more opportunities to embrace the best of the coast. Lots of great…
Lots of great things happening this March, and with the seriously mild weather out there (big change from last year!), make the…
Spring is here! – well, astronomically speaking anyway – but don’t let Jack Frost keep you from getting out and about as there are…
Wow, that year flew by, but luckily we’ve got another fantastic year ahead of us full of great events and festivals all…
It is estimated that 240,000 Atlantic salmon returned to Irish shores last year, according to Inland Fisheries Ireland. The enduring Atlantic salmon…
A four-part documentary that tells the story of Ireland’s lighthouses and the work of Irish Lights begins tonight on RTE 1 at…
Get into the Maritime spirit this August Ban Holiday weekend with the Cleggan | Claddaghduff Festival of the Sea. Now in its…
A team of marine scientists have returned to Galway after spending three weeks at sea investigating Ireland’s deep ocean territory 300 miles…
Howth – rich with natural beauty, steeped in maritime history, home to the always excellent Dublin Bay Prawn Festival and of course full of the…
Cork Harbour Festival, a nine day celebration of Cork’s maritime culture, runs from 2nd – 10th June, kicking off with Ireland’s premier…
With the May Bank Holiday weekend and the start of the summer festival season, there’s lots of reasons to get out by…
A great new resource for anyone interested in Irish maritime history has been launched today by the Minister for Culture, Heritage and…
‘Shine a Light on Summer’ Festival takes place this May Bank Holiday weekend (Saturday 5th – Monday 7th) at five of Ireland’s…
Irish Lights has launched a new five-year strategy which maps out its vision for the delivery of next generation maritime services to…
Lots of great things happening this month and when spring finally manages to appear we’ll have plenty of reasons to get outdoors….
The telegraph machine from the RMS Lusitania has finally been recovered by divers from the wreck situated off Old Kinsale Head, Cork….
Festival season is definitely here and there’s so many exciting festivals happening around the country this July. Check out our top picks…
This Sunday, 4th June, for the first time ever Roche’s Point Lighthouse will be open to the public to celebrate its 200th anniversary. …
With the warm weather making a most welcome appearance, we officially declare summer is well and truly here! So what better way to…
Cork Harbour Festival is the largest annual event in Cork Harbour and takes place from June 3rd – 11th with 60 events taking…
The Marine Institute‘s has announced that over five hundred teachers and 15,000 primary school children will benefit from its Explorers Education Programme…
Some pretty spectacular ships sailed into Dublin Port this afternoon for the Dublin Port Riverfest. There’s nothing quite majestic as tall ships in…