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Tempo lost at Hook Head
On a beautiful spring morning, we took a trip out to Hook Head. Rather than visit the lighthouse, however, I was keen to do a short video of the maritime exhibition. It sounded like a good plan during mid-week, but as it was Easter break, the place was hopping. I did...
Row Boat Rambles 2026
The old family fishing punt really opens up the rivers to us. A timber punt - Larch planked on oak frames, the punt was originally a prong, a flat-bottomed keelless craft which could slide along the local mudflats. But it was converted sometime in the 20 th C and so...
Arklow Shipping to Sponsor Tides & Tales
The Board of Tides & Tales Maritime Community Project CLG is proud to announce a funding sponsorship with Ireland's Arklow Shipping. Announcing the 3-year deal, which will provide modest funding and management mentoring expertise to the project, James Alexander...
Lough Fisher – Another Waterford Shipping Disaster
On March 30th 1918, a small steamer was chugging along the southern Irish coast. Of the thirteen souls aboard, eleven crew and two naval gunners, eight were from or living in the port city of Waterford. All would die that night, within sight of their homeland. Another...
Geoffrey Spencer’s Oriental Gamble
Geoffrey Spencer was the founder of the Spencer shipping operation which burst into life with an all or nothing bet on Waterford's quays in 1869. This story charts the family shipping enterprise that flourished for almost 50 years from the initial fateful risk on the...
Bolton’s Doorway?
At a recent event to unveil an interpretation board at Old Faithlegg Church, my daughter Ellen and I were assisting Damien McLellan with the set up. While we put the world to rights, we fell to discussing the perplexing question of why a large doorway was on the north...