Seascapes

On this weeks show we're in Clifton to welcome the new RNLI lifeboat and we hear from the Coast Guard Service on their safety campaigns, recruiting and their response to recent claims at a recent Oireachtas committee hearing.

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Seascapes tonight speaks to James Morrissey about his book A History of the Fastnet Lighthouse. Norman Freeman recounts how the sea plays an important role in most of the works of the great playwright, Eugene O'Neill and Fergal Keane visits Cobh in Cork Harbour.

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Seascapes this week visits Howth, where Lorna Siggins learns about the Howth School of Fish from Sean Doran. Norman Freeman has the story of the liner the Principessa Mafalda, which sank off the coast of Brazil. And we have an interview with Senator Gerard Craughwell about the Oireachtas Transport hearings into the Irish Coastguard Service.

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We look at the story an IRA unit in Cork that attempted to hijack a Royal Navy ship. Recently, the Irish Coastguard Volunteers Representative Group spoke at the Oireachtas Committee on Transport & Communications hearing. And we take a look at TV series, the Great Lighthouses of Ireland.

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Seascapes this week visits the K Club in County Kildare, where the hotel hosted a group of transition year students from CBS James St, are taking part in a fishing project organised as part of their Gaisce programme in the school. And in the latest of our series on Irish lighthouses, Noel Sweeney visits Mine Head lighthouse in County Waterford.

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Seascapes visits the National Maritime Museum to hear about a new exhibition commemorating one of Ireland's most renowned sea captains, Captain Robert Halpin.

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We visit Strangford in County Down and the Viking Festival which was recently held there. We also hear how celestial navigation can still be used at sea and how it can be relatively easy to learn, and we hear about lobster pots and how they are constructed and used.

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Seascapes tonight comes from the Irish Sailing Awards, held in Dun Laoghaire last weekend. We hear from Olympic medallist Annalise Murphy, on her life after sailing, Sailor of the Year, Finn Lynch and from the winner of the Irish Sailing Leadership Award, Mary Duffy, amongst others.

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Seascapes tonight visits the Skipper Expo, the country's biggest ever show for the commercial fishing sector.

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Fergal is joined by the owner of Coast Line Shipping Joe Howes and Irish woman Stephanie Hyde-McIntyre who has made a career in the shipping business.

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