Impressive numbers expectedSAILING 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 3 2009 - 01:00
Ericsson 4 and Grael lift coveted trophySAILING 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 winA 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 SwedenSAILING: 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 BaySAILING VOLVO OCEAN RACE : SCARCELY HAD Ian Walker’s words “Galway, we love you!” stopped echoing before Ireland’s Green Dragon…Mon Jun 8 2009 - 01:00
Crews from all points descend on new venue Fenit for national championshipsSAILING: A FOUR-YEAR plan to spread Irish cruiser-racer competition around from the Cork-Dublin axis comes to fruition this …Fri Jun 5 2009 - 01:00
Galway ready to celebrate as dream comes to fruitionSAILING: 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 GalwaySailing: 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 harbourSAILING: 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 safetySAILING: AS THE national sailing season steps up a gear this month, crews around the country will be refreshing skills as …Fri May 8 2009 - 01:00
Green Dragon unable to beat the conditionsSAILING 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 courseSAILING : 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 celebrateSAILING 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 6 2009 - 01:00
Olsen's Ericsson 3 takes fifth legSAILING: 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
ISA battle to retain fundingSAILING VOLVO OCEAN RACE AND SPORTS COUNCIL FUNDING: WITH WIDESPREAD public expectation of cutbacks in public funding, the Irish…Fri Mar 27 2009 - 00:00
36 sailors to share €450,000 in grantsSAILING HIGH PERFORMANCE GRANTS: FOLLOWING THE announcement by the Irish Sports Council of High-Performance grants for 2009, …Fri Mar 13 2009 - 00:00
Crew changes ahead of 12,300-mile legSAILING 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 airsSAILING: 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 stormSAILING/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 commencesSAILING : 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 VORSAILING: 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 placeSAILING'VOLVO OCEAN RACE: AS THE countdown clock to the resumption of competition in the Volvo Ocean Race begins ticking in…Fri Jan 2 2009 - 00:00
Straitened times also present interesting opportunitiesSAILING/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 legGREEN 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 aheadSAILING OCEAN RACE: WITH ANDREAS Hannakamp's Team Russia now in port, the eighth and final entry in the Volvo Ocean Race, …Fri Dec 5 2008 - 00:00
Grael takes grip on race with second leg victorySAILING ROUND WORLD RACE : WITH THE pre-dawn calls to worship from temples, mosques and churches echoing across the still waters…Mon Dec 1 2008 - 00:00
Club racing to the fore in non-Commodore Cup yearAS 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 OceanSAILING 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 finaleSAILING : 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 7 2008 - 00:00
Green Dragon proves more than a match for the big playersOCEAN RACE REPORT: IN A curious twist of fate, Green Dragon skipper Ian Walker lifted the trophy for third place in Leg One …Tue Nov 4 2008 - 00:00
Ericsson 4 ahead as storms scatter fleetSAILING/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
Irish sailors in the raceDamian 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 eventSAILING 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 goneSAILING LOSS OF ASGARD II: IT'S RARE enough that such a diverse sport as sailing is unified, and almost invariably it is for…Fri Sep 12 2008 - 01:00
SB3 championship attracts leading sailorsSAILING LASER WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP COUNTDOWN WITH SUMMER-LIKE conditions threatening to return, plus a possibility of reasonable…Fri Aug 29 2008 - 01:00
Star Class open brightly in BeijingSailing : A promising sixth place for Peter O'Leary and Stephen Milne in the Star class at Qingdao marked their start to the…Fri Aug 15 2008 - 01:00
Optimist proves perfect starting pointSAILING: THE COMBINED classes gathered at Qingdao for the Olympic regatta are selected for their representative profile of the…Fri Aug 15 2008 - 01:00
Mixed fortunes for sailing duoA second spectacular race win for Ireland's Ger Owens and Phil Lawton at the 470 class event at Qingdao this morning made the…Wed Aug 13 2008 - 01:00
Some 'national' titles are a bit too parochialSAILING: LAST WEEK'S Topper World Championship at Tralee Bay Sailing Club ended with success for British teenager Elliott Hansen…Fri Aug 1 2008 - 01:00
O'Leary and Milne among 11 OlympiansSAILING: A TOTAL OF 400 entrants from 62 nations will contest sailing events at the Beijing Olympics starting in three weeks…Fri Jul 18 2008 - 01:00
Local crews holding their ownSAILING: THE MIDPOINT of the ACC Bank Cork Week was reached yesterday with a full programme of races completed across all five…Thu Jul 17 2008 - 01:00
Light airs give smaller boats the edgeSAILING - CORK WEEK: LIGHT WINDS played fickle games with the organisation of the first day of racing at ACC Bank Cork Week …Tue Jul 15 2008 - 01:00
Irish teams pipped againSAILING/COWES WEEK: WINDS GUSTING to gale force swept the Irish teams to the front of the fleet at the Rolex Commodore's Cup…Mon Jul 7 2008 - 01:00
Green make good on French slipSAILING COMMODORE'S CUP AFTER SIX hours of racing offshore in the English Channel, a delicate balance was emerging for Irish…Thu Jul 3 2008 - 01:00
Green are go for tough overnight raceSAILING A CRUCIAL, overnight race which starts this morning at 10Wed Jul 2 2008 - 01:00
Ireland Green lying secondSAILING COMMODORE'S CUP: IRELAND GREEN, one of Ireland's two teams competing at the Rolex Commodore's Cup at Cowes, opened the…Tue Jul 1 2008 - 01:00
Irish are ready for action at CowesSAILING NEWS : TWO RACES of up to 12 miles each beginning this morning will mark the start of the biennial Rolex Commodore's…Mon Jun 30 2008 - 01:00
Slade on course for recordSAILING ROUND IRELAND RACE: AFTER A battering endured along the Atlantic seaboard, relief is in sight for most of the fleet …Wed Jun 25 2008 - 01:00