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Ireland to the fore of Monaco forum

SAILING NEWS: IRELAND WAS to the fore in several discussions at last week’s World Yacht Racing Forum in Monaco, many of which…

Fri Dec 18 2009 - 00:00

Foxall signs up to go around the world again

SAILING: LESS THAN six months after the end of the Volvo Ocean Race, Ireland’s Damian Foxall has been signed-up by French skipper…

Fri Dec 04 2009 - 00:00

Commodore's Cup assault regroups

SAILING: COUNTING DOWN to next season has already started in earnest for the crews who hope to form the backbone of Ireland'…

Fri Nov 20 2009 - 00:00

Up to 100 boats expected as Kinsale gets prestigious event

SAILING DRAGON GOLD CUP: AS HOWTH Yacht Club prepares for next year’s Etchells World Championships, Irish clubs are preparing…

Fri Nov 06 2009 - 00:00

Mediterranean success a boost for small Irish design house

SAILING MIDDLE SEA RACE: THE OUTCOME of the annual Rolex Middle Sea Race was being toasted in Wicklow this week following the…

Fri Oct 23 2009 - 01:00

ISA plans to move and expand vision

SAILING AFTER 50 years in Dún Laoghaire, the Irish Sailing Association (ISA) is seeking a new home that will combine a national…

Fri Oct 09 2009 - 01:00

O'Leary puts dad in his place

SAILING ISA CHAMPIONSHIPS : IN MIRROR image of last year’s event, Nicholas O’Leary yesterday lifted the Helmsman’s silver salver…

Mon Sept 28 2009 - 01:00

O'Learys head impressive Crosshaven line-up

SAILING NEWS: AS BEFITS the conclusion of the main season, this weekend sees the annual gathering of the panoply that is the…

Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00

Indian summer for Howth autumn league

SAILING: WITH AN Indian summer widely expected to dominate for the next week, Howth Yacht Club’s annual Autumn League series…

Fri Sept 11 2009 - 01:00

Size of fleet for junior event gives reason to be optimistic

SAILING COLUMN: A MASSIVE fleet of 248 Optimist sailors raced their national championships on Dublin Bay last weekend in a show…

Fri Aug 28 2009 - 01:00

Young talent showing real form

SAILING : JUST A week after Ireland’s Annalise Murphy was placed in the top-10 in the Laser Radial Worlds, in addition to the…

Fri Aug 14 2009 - 01:00

Light airs hamper Fastnet getaway

SAILING : LIGHT WINDS on the English Channel were last night playing havoc with the Fastnet Race, which began from Cowes yesterday…

Mon Aug 10 2009 - 01:00

Occasional appearances by crew members are rocking the boat

SAILING RULES OF THE SEA : THERE USED to be an unwritten golden rule in sailing that underpinned the entire sport

Fri Jul 31 2009 - 01:00

Fastnet still a big draw

SAILING: WITH MORE than three weeks remaining before the starting gun is fired at the Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes, the official…

Fri Jul 17 2009 - 01:00

Impressive numbers expected

SAILING DÚN LAOGHAIRE WEEK: DUBLIN BAY is on course for a sailing show of strength next week as a fleet of around 450 boats …

Fri Jul 03 2009 - 01:00

Ericsson 4 and Grael lift coveted trophy

SAILING VOLVO OCEAN RACE : EIGHT-AND-a-half months after departing Alicante, Spain, the Volvo Ocean Race ended last night in…

Mon Jun 29 2009 - 01:00

Hurley sails 'Dinah' to class win

A THREE-WEEK epic in one of the longest-standing ocean yacht races ended earlier this week with Ireland’s Barry Hurley winning…

Fri Jun 19 2009 - 01:00

Green Dragon fights back to claim podium place in Sweden

SAILING: IN A cliff-hanger conclusion to leg eight of the Volvo Ocean Race, Ian Walker and the Green Dragon crew secured their…

Fri Jun 12 2009 - 01:00

Dragon bares her teeth out of Galway Bay

SAILING VOLVO OCEAN RACE : SCARCELY HAD Ian Walker’s words “Galway, we love you!” stopped echoing before Ireland’s Green Dragon…

Mon Jun 08 2009 - 01:00

Crews from all points descend on new venue Fenit for national championships

SAILING: A FOUR-YEAR plan to spread Irish cruiser-racer competition around from the Cork-Dublin axis comes to fruition this …

Fri Jun 05 2009 - 01:00

Galway ready to celebrate as dream comes to fruition

SAILING: IT’S HARDLY news and scarcely a surprise to anyone but a handful of nay-sayers, but, weather notwithstanding, this …

Fri May 22 2009 - 01:00

Green Dragon on course for Galway

Sailing: Ideal sailing conditions graced the Volvo Ocean Race fleet in the North Atlantic today as the seven boats passed the…

Thu May 21 2009 - 01:00

Fog causes chaos in Boston harbour

SAILING: VOLVO OCEAN RACE: AS A rolling fog-bank swept across Boston Harbor on Saturday afternoon, one of the most notorious…

Mon May 18 2009 - 01:00

Refreshing skills and safety

SAILING:   AS THE national sailing season steps up a gear this month, crews around the country will be refreshing skills as …

Fri May 08 2009 - 01:00

Green Dragon unable to beat the conditions

SAILING VOLVO OCEAN RACE: IN BRIGHT sunshine and with the grace of a cool breeze, Ian Walker and the Green Dragon team arrived…

Tue Apr 28 2009 - 01:00

Dún Laoghaire entries on course

SAILING : PROSPECTS OF a large turn-out for this summer’s Volvo Dún Laoghaire Regatta are proving resistant to the economic …

Fri Apr 10 2009 - 01:00

Team Delta Lloyd celebrate

SAILING VOLVO OCEAN RACE: THERE WERE scenes of jubilation in Rio de Janeiro at the weekend when a third place for the Ger O’…

Mon Apr 06 2009 - 01:00

ISA battle to retain funding

SAILING VOLVO OCEAN RACE AND SPORTS COUNCIL FUNDING: WITH WIDESPREAD public expectation of cutbacks in public funding, the Irish…

Fri Mar 27 2009 - 00:00

Olsen's Ericsson 3 takes fifth leg

SAILING: THE MARATHON fifth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race was decided in Rio de Janeiro yesterday when veteran sailor Magnus Olsen…

Fri Mar 27 2009 - 00:00

36 sailors to share €450,000 in grants

SAILING HIGH PERFORMANCE GRANTS: FOLLOWING THE announcement by the Irish Sports Council of High-Performance grants for 2009, …

Fri Mar 13 2009 - 00:00

Green Dragon faces crucial decision

SAILING

Fri Feb 27 2009 - 00:00

Crew changes ahead of 12,300-mile leg

SAILING VOLVO OCEAN RACE: AS FINAL preparations are made for tomorrow’s start to the mammoth 12,300-mile Volvo Ocean Race stage…

Fri Feb 13 2009 - 00:00

Green Dragon improves in light airs

SAILING: A DAY of snakes-and-ladders sailing on the waters of the Beijing Olympic regatta off Qingdao ended yesterday with Ireland…

Tue Feb 10 2009 - 00:00

Telefonica Blue able to weather the storm

SAILING/VOLVO OCEAN RACE: TO BE fair, while they all knew it would be bad, nobody quite expected the storm to be just as devastating…

Mon Jan 26 2009 - 00:00

Grael declares his intentions as toughest stage commences

SAILING : THE BALMY, tropical conditions hardly seemed to herald what has been widely billed as the toughest stage of the Volvo…

Mon Jan 19 2009 - 00:00

Two millimetres may yet decide VOR

SAILING: THE SEVEN-BOAT fleet of the Volvo Ocean Race begins its first offshore stage of the new year this Sunday with almost…

Fri Jan 16 2009 - 00:00

Green Dragon's sights still on a podium place

SAILING'VOLVO OCEAN RACE:   AS THE countdown clock to the resumption of competition in the Volvo Ocean Race begins ticking in…

Fri Jan 02 2009 - 00:00

Straitened times also present interesting opportunities

SAILING/REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL:  TALES OF economic woe and dire predictions for 2009 and beyond are casting a pall over the …

Fri Dec 19 2008 - 00:00

Walker predicts slow third leg

GREEN DRAGON skipper Ian Walker's pre-start predictions proved accurate at the weekend when leg three of the Volvo Ocean Race…

Mon Dec 15 2008 - 00:00

Grael in command but still plenty of racing ahead

SAILING OCEAN RACE:   WITH ANDREAS Hannakamp's Team Russia now in port, the eighth and final entry in the Volvo Ocean Race, …

Fri Dec 05 2008 - 00:00

Grael takes grip on race with second leg victory

SAILING ROUND WORLD RACE : WITH THE pre-dawn calls to worship from temples, mosques and churches echoing across the still waters…

Mon Dec 01 2008 - 00:00

Club racing to the fore in non-Commodore Cup year

AS NUMBERS of Irish sailors continue to flock towards bigger yachts in the main sailing season of April to October, next weekend…

Fri Nov 21 2008 - 00:00

Tactics will be pivotal in the Indian Ocean

SAILING VOLVO OCEAN RACE : AFTER THEIR first full day at sea, the fleet in the Volvo Ocean Race is again preparing for a highly…

Mon Nov 17 2008 - 00:00

Cork IT outwit Italians in World finale

SAILING : THE GHOST of a close call in last year's Student Yachting World Cup was firmly put to bed last weekend when the Cork…

Fri Nov 07 2008 - 00:00

Green Dragon proves more than a match for the big players

OCEAN RACE REPORT: IN A curious twist of fate, Green Dragon skipper Ian Walker lifted the trophy for third place in Leg One …

Tue Nov 04 2008 - 00:00

Ericsson 4 ahead as storms scatter fleet

SAILING/VOLVO OCEAN RACE AND IRISH NEWS:  WITH LESS than three days remaining before the first boat reaches Cape Town in the…

Fri Oct 31 2008 - 00:00

Spotter's Guide to Volvo Ocean Race

The fan's guide to getting in on the act

Sat Oct 11 2008 - 01:00

Irish sailors in the race

Damian Foxall (Green Dragon) : AS OPPOSITE watch-leader to Neal McDonald, this combination has served to establish the Green…

Sat Oct 11 2008 - 01:00

O'Leary clan claim top-three places at Howth event

SAILING ISA ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONSHIPS: LAST WEEKEND'S annual showcase of Irish sailing classes ended with as improbable an outcome…

Fri Oct 10 2008 - 01:00

Much more than a boat is now gone

SAILING LOSS OF ASGARD II: IT'S RARE enough that such a diverse sport as sailing is unified, and almost invariably it is for…

Fri Sept 12 2008 - 01:00
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