Wavelength Podcast with Lorna Siggins
Brian MacCoitir of the Irish Cave Rescue Organisation Recalls Downpatrick Head Rescue
23rd December 2022 Wavelength Podcast
There have been many extraordinary rescue efforts in Irish waters over the past year. One which few involved will ever forget lasted 22 hours, close to Downpatrick Head in north Mayo this past September. It took 14 hours alone to…
Maria Simonds-Gooding, The Blasket Painter and Kerry Coastal Life
8th December 2022 Wavelength Podcast
Award-winning Irish and international artist Maria Simonds-Gooding has a unique relationship with the Kerry coastline, where she lives, and she introduced the Blasket island of Inis Mhic Oileáin to its late owners, Charles J Haughey. Life on the Great Blasket,…
A Galway Paramedic on His Petition Opposing Controversial Beach Bye-Laws
21st November 2022 Wavelength Podcast
Paramedic Patrick Dunne is a keen kitesurfer, windsurfer, sailor, swimmer and general watersports enthusiast who has volunteered with the RNLI. He has initiated a petition opposing Galway County Council’s new draft bye-laws which propose to ban watersports apart from swimming…
Marine Archaeologist Mensun Bound: “Nothing Compares with Finding the Endurance...”
3rd November 2022 Wavelength Podcast
Marine archaeologist Mensun Bound has witnessed great works of art lying on the seabed and chests overflowing with treasure, but says, “nothing compares with finding the Endurance....” Speaking at the recent Shackleton Autumn School in Athy, Co Kildare, Bound described…
Ringsend Sailing Trawlers: Cormac Lowth's New Book is Launched at Poolbeg Yacht and Boat Club
15th October 2022 Wavelength Podcast
“Broken hoops on the shore; at the land a maze of dark cunning nets; farther away chalk scrawled backdoors and on the higher beach a drying line with two crucified shirts. Ringsend: wigwams of brown steersman and master mariners. Human…
Flares Up: A Story Bigger than the Atlantic - New Book Reveals Drama of Transatlantic Rowing Adventure
1st October 2022 Wavelength Podcast
English firefighter Paul Hopkins (55) had recovered from a brain haemorrhage and entrepreneur Phil Pugh (65) was renowned for undertaking extreme physical challenges in honour of his son when they rowed into Antigua in a fourth-hand wooden rowing boat in…
Sea Swimmers Maybe Better Protected Against Harmful Organisms - Research
16th September 2022 Wavelength Podcast
Preliminary research into the impact of harmful organisms in bathing water suggests that regular sea swimmers leading a healthy life may have some protection. University of Galway expert Prof Dearbháile Morris cautions that the indications are preliminary, and require more…
Danú of Galway Adventurers Record Scientific Achievements in Greenland's Fjord System
3rd September 2022 Wavelength Podcast
You don’t want to run out of Marmite, butter or Guinness on board a yacht in a remote part of Greenland. One piece of advice from a very elated Richard Darley, who sailed the 3,300 nautical mile trip by Danú…
The Last of The Light by Marc Ó Riain Captures Images of Loop Head Peninsula
17th August 2022 Wavelength Podcast
The Last of the Light is a collection of memories, short stories and beautiful images from the Loop Head peninsula by Kilkee writer Marc Ó Riain. The author aimed to capture “the images, sounds and smells, the very taste of…
Departing Dublin Port Chief Executive Eamonn O'Reilly "Deeply Frustrated" at the Time Ireland is Taking to Develop the Infrastructure Needed to Decarbonise
1st August 2022 Wavelength Podcast
Dublin Port’s chief executive Eamonn O’Reilly is moving on after 12 years at the helm. He does so at a time when the port reports a return to almost pre-pandemic and pre-Brexit trading levels, with overall volumes growing by 10.1…
Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation to Become a Partner in Floating Windfarm Project off Donegal
15th July 2022 Wavelength Podcast
If you can’t beat em, join em, and that’s one view of a surprise move by the Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation (KFO) to become a partner in a two-gigawatt floating wind farm project off the coast of Donegal. The KFO has…
Long Lost Log: Diary of a Virgin Sailor, Podcast with Michael Chapman Pincher
30th June 2022 Wavelength Podcast
When 23-year-old Michael Chapman Pincher enlisted as crew for an Atlantic voyage back in 1974, he had never sailed so much as a dinghy. Nor did he realise that the skipper of Gay Gander and his sailing companion were actually…
Irish Marine Research Ship Tom Crean is On Time, On Budget And Due For Delivery This Autumn
20th June 2022 Wavelength Podcast
It is “on time and on budget”. That’s the Marine Institute’s new 25 million euro research ship, RV Tom Crean, due for delivery this autumn. Named after the Kerry polar explorer who worked with both Ernest Shackleton and Sir Robert Scott,…
Bernard Lucas on Doolin Coast Guard and Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for the Caitriona Lucas Challenge
7th June 2022 Wavelength Podcast
On June 25th, Clare coast guard volunteer Bernard Lucas, along with Cormac Coyne of Inis Oir and Eoin Keane from Kilfenora will set out to climb 5,895 metres (19,341 feet) to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro the highest mountain in…
New RNLI Clifden Lifeboat Due with Names of 10,000 Loved Ones On Its Hull
13th May 2022 Wavelength Podcast
A newly built all-weather lifeboat with over 10,000 names on its hull which is due to arrive at the RNLI’s Clifden station in Connemara on Saturday has already recorded its first rescue mission. The Shannon-class lifeboat named St Christopher escorted…
Is Derry on the island of Ireland? That’s a question being asked by fishing industry representatives in a bitter row over how the State’s sea fisheries regulator has been handling landings of valuable blue whiting. The Irish Fish Producers’ Organisation…
