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ICRA Conference Hears of Plans & Challenges for 2021 Sailing Regatta Organisers 7th March 2021 Regatta organisers are poised for the Government's April 5th announcement including July's Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta (above) Credit: Afloat Key Irish sailing regattas depend on a Government Level Two status being in place this summer in order to proceed, the Irish Cruiser Racer (ICRA) conference heard yesterday. Over 100 sailors and regatta representatives gathered online to hear the latest regatta news from the East, South and Southwest coasts. It was a heartening gathering that revealed how ...

ICRA Plan to Increase Cruiser Racer Numbers 28th February 2021 An under 25 team racing in a RStGYC J80 keelboat on Dublin Bay Credit: Afloat There will be more boats on the water in the season ahead, crewed by young sailors supported by the Irish Cruiser Racing Association's Under 25 programme which has been so successful that ICRA is now working with the national sailing organisation on developing a further stage of the project, to encourage those finishing it to buy their own boats and increase the size of cruiser fleets at clubs around the country. "We are now seeing the positive result ...

Registration Now Open For Online ICRA Conference & AGM 19th February 2021 ICRA has published the agenda and registration details for its 2021 Conference and AGM taking place over Zoom on Saturday 6 March. As previously reported on Afloat.ie, RTÉ and Met Éireann’s Evelyn Cusack will head an exciting and interesting line-up of guest speakers and presentations. ICRA Commodore Richard Colwell will kick off proceedings at 10.30 am with the welcome and Commodore’s update. This will be followed at 10.40 am by Evelyn Cusack’s half-hour presentation on forecasting the weather. And at 11.10 a...

5th February 2021 At the double. Anthony O'Leary of Crosshaven and Annalise Murphy of Dun Laoghaire are the only contenders to be Afloat.ie "Sailors of the Year" twice – himself in 2010 and 2014, and herself in 2012 and 2016 Credit: Robert Bateman and IOC In these long-lived times, a Silver Jubilee is not what it used to be in an era when Golden Jubilees, Centenaries, Tricentenaries and whatever you're having yourself are cascading around us in an almost continuous nostalgia-fest. Nevertheless the healthy Quarter Century of the Afloat.ie "Sailor of the Year" contest deserves celebration, a...

Ballydaly paid tribute on the centenary of the death of the late Con Murphy, who gave his life for the pursuit of Irish freedom at a dignified ceremony that remembered a life cut short in an atrocity on February 1st, 1921. A grand nephew of the Irish Volunteer, Tim Murphy spoke of the efforts of the War of Independence hero and his legacy resulting with the ultimate Good Friday Agreement in 1998. "That's the cornerstone of our commitment to peace and stability on this island. It was agreed and overwhelmingly approved in two referendums in both parts of Ireland prompted by those involved in th...