“Bay Race” To Get VDLR2025 Off To Flying Start
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“Bay Race” To Get VDLR2025 Off To Flying Start

Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2025 Race Officer Con Murphy cheerfully admits that the concept of the “Bay Race”, getting this week’s biennial four-day sailfest off to a flying start on Thursday, July 10th, is to some extent a “Work in Progress,” and all in my head.

Dún Laoghaire Harbour’s Unique Character is the Making of Coastival and VDLR 25
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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
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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.

Dún Laoghaire Launches Programme for Inaugural ‘Coastival’ Maritime Festival
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Dún Laoghaire Launches Programme for Inaugural ‘Coastival’ Maritime Festival

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council has launched a digital event brochure for its inaugural Coastival Festival that coincides with Ireland’s largest sailing regatta, the VDLR, from July 6th. The flipbook contains the full programme for the eight-day event.

Cathaoirleach Launches Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2023
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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