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Kieran Cotter of Baltimore is Sailor of the Month for January 1st February 2021 A pillar of the Baltimore community afloat and ashore, Kieran Cotter has retired as Baltimore Lifeboat Coxn after 45 memorable years of service. The retirement of Kieran Cotter, after 45 years of distinguished service with the Baltimore RNLI Lifeboat, puts the focus on a remarkable individual who combines a busy life afloat with solid community and commercial activity ashore in playing a key role towards the build...

A mural by Aches on Corks Anglesea Street. Photo: Clare Keogh “Getting the ‘walking bug’ is one of the few positive things to come out of 2020,” says Sara Zimmerman of Travel Department and TD Active. Bookings for future walking trips are outperforming all other holidays, both for overseas and homegrown options like their four-night Kerry Walking Holiday, she adds. “So many more people have taken to the great outdoors during lockdowns to exercise and for their headspace, which has rei...

Royal Cork Yacht Club Admiral Says Volunteerism is The Heart of Club Spirit 27th January 2021 RCYC Admiral Colin Morehead, an active member of that club for over 45 years Credit: Bob Bateman It is time to look at renewing club memberships. With lockdown continuing and no certainty about when the country will "re-open", renewals are easy to forget. But clubs need them and many saw a reduction and slowness in paying those dues last year. Understandable, with so much pressure and uncertainty aro...

Galway Honours Memory of Skerries Mermaid Stalwart Jim Dempsey 25th January 2021 Mermaid Week 1982 at Galway Bay SC with (left to right) Pierce Purcell (GBSC), 1982 Champion Jim Dempsey (Skerries SC), and Mermaid Association President Michael Lysaght Credit: courtesy Pierce Purcell The recent death of Skerries SC stalwart and longtime Mermaid Class ace Jim Dempsey has evoked fond memories throughout Irish sailing, and Galway Bay SCs Pierce Purcell speaks for many with his insights into Jims s...

Shakespeare with a twist when the Graffiti Drama Group bring their version of Othello to Cork schools. The Graffiti Theatre Company are behind a new approach to education. Formed last year, they are funded by a grant from the Youth Employment Agency. The actors who prior to this had been unemployed, are now bringing drama to schools in County Cork.  Many a student will have struggled with Shakespeare, but the fifth years of the Presentation Convent Crosshaven received insights into the Othe...

  23rd January 2021 Laser 4.7 Euro Championship 2019 underway in Belgium. The classic Laser has served sailing well – the hull design may have been in existence for more than fifty years, yet it still looks very right no matter which of the three rig options you choose. At one stage last Autumn, it looked for a week or two as though Irish venues might be hosting no less than five World Championships for dinghy classes during the three week period between the July 24th and August 14th 2021. ...

Record Fastnet Race Challenge Taken Up By Ten Irish Boats 21st January 2021 Paul OHiggins champion JPK 10.80 Rockabill VI in action off the West Cork coast in Calves Week. She has raced round or past the Fastnet Rock several times in other events, but this year the star Dun Laoghaire boat will be doing the Rolex Fastnet Race itself for the first time Credit: Robert Bateman If anyone in the Royal Ocean Racing Clubs suite of race offices was bothered by the thought that the 2021 change of cours...

Cork Harbour Information It’s one of the largest natural harbours in the world – and those living near Cork Harbour insist that it’s also one of the most interesting. This was the last port of call for the most famous liner in history, the Titanic, but it has been transformed into a centre for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. The harbour has been a working port and a strategic defensive hub for centuries, and it has been one of Irelands major employment hubs since the early 1900s...

The programme is so well structured that it’s really gradual. You just feel stronger and fitter and mentally stronger as well. It was fantastic. We had nobody else around us. It wasn’t as if we could go away for the weekend and we just did it every day at 7 am,” she says. Marie Therese has recently signed up for the yearly app from Joe Wicks and is looking forward to continuing her fitness journey from the comfort of her own home. “For me it’s so much better than the gym. I joined a g...

Met Éireann received a frosty reception last year for some of its forecasts with 87 complaints made by unhappy weather-watchers.