Outdoor Community popped by to check out this new spot for BMX riders. Bikes will be available to rent and coffee and tea will be available, Ideally located in the Cherry Orchard Industrial Estate Its early stages yet but we will keep a close eye on whats going on and bring you all the latest […]
After a long season the scores were in with all to play for in the last event of the Irishfreestyle League in 2011. Despite perfect planning, nature threw a spanner in the works with hardly any rain this summer, meaning the ESB were unable to schedule a release from Leixlip to provide sufficient waves at […]
Due to a severe lack of water on the Liffey at this time the ESB have said that it will not be possible to organise a release from Liexlip Dam tomorrow to facilitate the Sluice Rodeo. Since the sluice will not be sufficiently high for a rodeo event without a release it has been decided […]
Now in its 2nd year the Moonlight Challenge is a fundraising event for the Wicklow Mountain Rescue Service. Its sure to be a fantastic night and is open to all. The 26km walk takes you from Crone Wood near Enniskerry along the Wicklow Way to their new Base on the outskirts of Laragh, all in […]
The sun shone for the 52nd Annual Liffey Descent which went off without a hitch (for most people!!) this weekend. With over 450 competitors battling it out over 11 wiers and nearly 30 kilometres there was lots of action and excitment. Congrats to Peter Egan (Salmon Leap Canoe Club) and Neil Fleming (Celbridge Paddlers) who […]
New evidence has emerged hinting the residence of a Bottlenose Dolphin pod (3 dolphins) along the Dublin and Wicklow coast. The evidence comes from the over 200 validated sightings of the pod in the past year within a 21 mile (33km) range between Wicklow Town and Dalkey Island. The sightings, validated by the Irish Whale […]
THE GREYSTONES ‘Give Us Back Our Harbour’ group has welcomed the significant progress made in recent weeks in negotiations with Sispar (the partnership tasked with redeveloping the harbour). “This success means that the community is very close to a plan for the harbour area which will leave it in a satisfactory condition as a community […]
Mayo’s Great Western Greenway has been awarded a 2011 EDEN award for ‘exemplary regeneration and promotion of a declining physical site’…
The ‘King of Fish, the Wild Atlantic Salmon, has returned to the River Tolka.
The French Coast Guard service has asked coast guard services in Britain and Ireland to look out for a brave yachtsman who is making a 7,000km transatlantic voyage.
