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The calendar for 2022 is a real milestone, as it's his 40th

By a happy chance, the "Club of the Year" award ceremony has taken place in National Heritage Week

  Return of Dublin Bay 21s During Olympics Shows Sailing in Ireland is a Matter of Shared Interests 24th July 2021 The mixed tapestry of Irish sailing – Olympians Finn Lynch and Annalise Murphy winning a race in Dun Laoghaire in a classic Dublin Bay Water Wag Credit: Con Murphy The start of the Sailing Olympics tomorrow (Sunday) at Enoshima, fifty kilometres from central Tokyo, may seem to be the beginning of a boat event about as different as humanly possible from the staging next Friday ...

SHARING OPTIONS: The new Teagasc forest carbon tool (FCT) is a first step in Ireland to measure the mean and cumulative CO2 sequestration of forests and woodlands by species, soil types and productivity. \Donal Magner The important role that forests play in carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation is acknowledged internationally. Measuring actual sequestration poses a number of challenges especially when harvesting and management regimes, tree sp...

Dublin Bay 21 Class Restoration in Kilrush Honoured in Annual Wood Awards Ireland 13th January 2021 The Dublin Bay 21 Naneen on her first sail after restoration, slipping effortlessly along on the Shannon Estuary off Kilrush The continuing restoration of the Dublin Bay 21 class of 1902, in the longterm project guided by Hal Sisk and Fionan de Barra of Dun Laoghaire, has seen the work of Master Shipwright Stephen Morris of Kilrush and his team (which includes several trainees) being celebrated...

New Dublin Bay Commodore Ann Kirwan Brings Many Talents to DBSC 12th December 2020 This week, Ann Kirwan of the National Yacht Club became the 25th Commodore of Dublin Bay Sailing Club at the clubs 136th Annual General Meeting, in succession to Jonathan Nicholson of the Royal St George YC. This harmonious change of the watch comes at the conclusion of a truncated season in which, despite the adverse effects of the pandemic, DBSC managed to put through a very complete yet still fully COVID-com...