Seascapes

Joanna McNicholas reports on the new marina in Westport, Co. Mayo & Fergal speaks to Dougie Martindale author of Gunther Prien and U-47: The Bull of Scapa Flow, a WW2 u-boat commander.

Trudy McIntyre is one of the few women involved in the commercial fishing industry in Ireland . Noel Sweeney met her in Dunmore East to speak about her working life. Vincent Delany speaks about his book, the Motor Yacht Club of Ireland. It's a history of a club founded in the early years of the last century. Hugh Oram has been looking at plans to build a bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland, not pie in the sky, he says, more pie in the sea.

Lorna Siggins reports from the Shannon Estuary on the works of port pilots guiding ships in and out of the waterway. Jeremy Dixon on his book, The U Boat Commanders, speaks about the new Sky TV series Das Boot and the men who commanded German submarines in WWII. And Hugh Oram on the many local shipping companies which dotted our coast early in the last century.

Fergal Keane visits the popular Courttown beach, which disappeared in recent storms. Fergal meets Green Party MEP Grace O'Sullivan in Courtown. John Litchfield reports from France on the sad demise of the ship the Calypso, owned for nearly fifty years by the explorer & ecologist, Jacques Cousteau. And Daria Blackwell of the Ocean Cruising Club tells how they are helping ocean going yachts reach their home ports during the pandemic.

Noel Sweeney speaks to Clare fisherman on the impact of Covid-19. Chief Exec of the Irish Sailing Assoc Harry Herman on the easing of the lockdown & its effect on how you go sailing this summer. Our regular contributor Hugh Oram on the Shannon Waterways.

Tonigh Seascapes comes from Castletownbere, West Cork, the frontline of the fishing industry's battle to survive Covid-19.

Lorna Siggins reports on RNLI volunteers around Ireland during Covid-19.

Correspondent John Lichfield reports

A sample of the nautical-related audio being digitised in RTE Archives.

We hear from Vera Quinlan on board her family's yacht, Danu, in the Caribbean. She & her partner Peter Owens and their children, set sail from Galway last June & have spent nearly the last year cruising the Atlantic & the Caribbean. Joanna McNicholas reports on the origins of the name of the Bills Rocks at the entrance to Clew Bay.