Coastival

VDLR Goes Live on Ireland’s TV Breakfast Show Virgin Media Ireland AM weatherman Deric Hartigan delivered the latest weather news and interviewed VDLR Chairman Don O’Dowd from a RIB in Dun Laoghaire Harbour, chatting about the regatta’s first-ever Bay Race, which looks set to be held in some plentiful sunshine.	Dún Laoghaire Harbour’s Unique Character is the Making of Coastival and VDLR 25 “Artificial” is one of the last words that spring to mind when you’ve spent many years in and around Dun Laoghaire Harbour. It’s all on such a scale, and constructed with so much locally-quarried material in a project begun 207 years ago in 1817, that it doesn’t really seem so very odd when those of a certain mind-set refer to it, without any irony, as “this wonderful natural feature of Dublin Bay”.
Dún Laoghaire Launches 10th VDLR and Coastival Festival An Cathaoirleach of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown, County Council, Jim O’ Leary was on hand to make this week’s joint launch of the 10th Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, Ireland’s largest sailing event and the town’s Coastival Festival, which runs in July.	Event Director Paddy Boyd On a Harbour Transformed (Podcast) Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2023 event director Paddy Boyd spoke to Wavelengths about the week ahead, starting with Coastival opening on July 1st.
VDLR To Bring Sailors And Townsfolk Together A week of maritime-related festivity is underway today (Saturday) as Coastival gets going in Dun Laoghaire, with the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta from next Thursday through to Sunday contributing mightily to a peak of dynamic interaction between town entertainment and sea sport through the unique harbour.	Coastival Event Programme Our partners in Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council have created a fantastic interactive guide and events programme for Coastival, which they will keep updated over the coming weeks as more events and attractions get added to the schedule!
Cathaoirleach Launches Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2023 Sailors, sponsors and volunteers launched Volvo Dún Laoghaire Regatta 2023 in fine style at the National Maritime Museum of Ireland on Wednesday night. This ninth edition of the regatta event promises to be one of the biggest sailing events in Northern Europe