Galway Honours Memory of Skerries Mermaid Stalwart Jim Dempsey
25th January 2021
Mermaid Week 1982 at Galway Bay SC with (left to right) Pierce Purcell (GBSC), 1982 Champion Jim Dempsey (Skerries SC), and Mermaid Association President Michael Lysaght
Credit: courtesy Pierce Purcell
The recent death of Skerries SC stalwart and longtime Mermaid Class ace Jim Dempsey has evoked fond memories throughout Irish sailing, and Galway Bay SC s Pierce Purcell speaks for many with his insights into Jim s special qualities of encouragement and enthusiasm, which contributed so much to today s Mermaid Class being made very welcome when they seek out a fresh venue for their annual championship.
16th January 2021
Conor Doyle s xP50 Freya from Kinsale is currently the largest entrant for the Volvo Dun Laoghaire-Dingle Race on June 9th. She is seen here winning the Kinsale-Monkstown Race in a record two hours, but the course record she challenges in the race to Dingle was set by a 94-footer, Mick Cottter s Windfall in 2019
Credit: Robert Bateman
It s getting to be like a game of skittles in the planned lineup of high-profile 2021 events which everybody - way back in the dark depths of earlier pandemic lockdowns – thought would surely come to pass in the remote sunlit heights of what was then the distant future of supposedly plague-free 2021.
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Renowned wildlife painter George McLean admits that he has ruffled some political feathers over the years.
So when the longtime Bognor-area resident recently learned he was to be appointed to the 2020 Order of Ontario, the province’s highest honour, he was “astounded” and “gobsmacked.”
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“I am not known for being quiet about the things I think are right,” McLean said Saturday. “I have always been opposed to the government’s art funding for example.”
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