Articles
Cormorants and shags: fish-eating sentinels!
by Bob Brown Bird Island, Strangford Lough. Seen close at hand, cormorants’ ‘scaly’ patterned plumage is quite attractive. We’ve all seen them: dark, brooding birds, perched on rocks, shipwrecks, harbour pilings, navigational beacons, and small islands. They are the archetypal residents of our coast, on exposed headlands, sheltered harbours, and Read more…
Events
OCC 70th Platinum Anniversary Celebrations 2024
“A Year of Celebrations around the world” Irish Cruising Club members are invited to join in any of the following events.The Ocean Cruising Club was established in 1954 and now has 3,600 members from 85 nations who benefit from a support structure of 287 Port Officers, all of whom welcome Read more…
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Irish Cruising Club Annual Pre-season Weekend raises €4,140 for RNLI Lifeboats
Alan Markey, Commodore, Irish Cruising Club presenting the donation to Rose Michael, ICC Member and RNLI Fundraising Crew on the steps of the Maryborough Hotel, Cork. Irish Cruising Club members enjoying the annual Gala Dinner at the ICC pre-season weekend generously donated to the RNLI in honour of the RNLI’s Read more…
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Northern Walk, December 2023
by Meave Bell The wet and windy winter season has been punctuated with lunches and walks for the northern members. Their usual Christmas format of a members’ meeting followed by Christmas lunch in the ever-hospitable Royal Ulster Yacht Club (RUYC) in Bangor was greatly enjoyed by 80 members and their Read more…
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Cormac McHenry 1936-2023
by WM Nixon Cormac McHenry of Dun Laoghaire, who died on December 22nd at the age of 87, was a highly regarded sailing enthusiast with a particular interest in short-handed long-distance cruising, a quietly determined enthusiast who had many other interests including Leinster rugby, all of which he pursued with the Read more…
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Sailing to Antarctica
by Joe Phelan Following 40 years working in the Irish Health Service, Joe Phelan retired. With his family grown it was time for adventure. Colleagues and friends wished him well, enthusing about all the golf he would enjoy. Joe had a different plan, he was going to sail to Antarctica… Read more…
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Historic re-enactment of Conor OBrien’s epic journey
David Beattie reports from the Saoirse Centenary rally Ilen departing Dun Laoghaire 20 June, 2023 During the afternoon of 20 June, 1923, following ‘a good lunch’ in the Royal Irish Yacht Club, Conor OBrien slipped the mooring of his yacht Saoirse (pronounced ‘Seershah’ and meaning ‘freedom’) and left Dun Laoghaire, Read more…