This month, the story of a determined Irish sailor – a young man who started life on a farm in County Meath, not a maritime location and has become the winner of the top French yacht race – the Figaro. Tom Dolan describes how he succeeded after years of disappointment and how psychology helped his determination to do so.

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On this edition - we hear that Franciscans use the excessive discards from shellfish in the building of their churches. We discuss the future of lighthouses and hear from a woman who wants to build a museum on an island.

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On this edition - Does the government want an Irish fishing industry? That major question is raised by a major figure in the fishing industry. We also discuss making sail a cargo carrier in these days of climate change and we hear about the history of fish kills in Ireland.

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On this edition - Remembering a ship that sank one hundred years ago on which only one man survived, and that was his third time being saved from the sea.

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On this edition - The disappearing craft of Shipwrights is discussed and also, unity in the fishing industry.

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On this month's edition - 82% of the fish sold in some supermarkets in Ireland is imported. The only boat of it's kind in the world comes to Ireland on a heritage voyage to the Celtic heartlands. And the plane that hit south coast rocks and never got off.

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On this month's edition - The 14-year-old island girl who told the Minister for the Marine to do his job, examining 300 million years of the Burren in County Clare and much more about Ireland's maritime sector, its culture, history and tradition.

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On this edition - small boats crossing the Atlantic Ocean, how the city of Ragusa crossed that ocean, and what I think of the RNLI.

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