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Sailing
# sailing - Friday 18 May, 2012
Don’t touch that dial… here’s the sport on TV this weekend
Get the feet up and the kettle on. There’s plenty on the box to keep you out of trouble.
# sailing - Wednesday 18 April, 2012
With just 100 days to go until the 2012 Olympic Games, Irish athletes are on their marks
With a little over three months to go to the London games, we look at all the Irish qualifiers so far and who could still make the grade.
# sailing - Saturday 7 April, 2012
# sailing - Friday 10 February, 2012
Don’t touch that dial… here’s the sport on TV this weekend
Get your feet up and turn the phone off. There’s no need to go outside the door.
# sailing - Sunday 22 January, 2012
Dutch teen (16) completes solo circumnavigation of globe
What have you done recently?
# sailing - Thursday 29 December, 2011
Armed ship called in to protect Volvo Ocean Race from pirates
Director Jack Lloyd declares the race’s anti-piracy plan a success following delicate eight-hour operation.
# sailing - Sunday 18 December, 2011
World Sailing Championships: Tenth for Irish sailors
Matt McGovern and Ryan Seaton were in action at the final day of the World Sailing Championships on Sunday.
# sailing - Saturday 17 December, 2011
World Sailing Championships: Irish pair stay in the medal hunt
Ryan Seaton and Matt McGovern will represent Ireland in tomorrow’s 49er medal race in Perth.
# sailing - Wednesday 7 December, 2011
On course: Annalise Murphy qualifies for London 2012
Ireland has another competitor to get behind at the Olympics as the 22-year-old is guaranteed a spot in the sailing event.
# sailing - Thursday 11 August, 2011
YouTube top 10: because Shakira’s hips don’t lie
From snake-hipped Latin popstars hitting the links to gravity-defying bat skills, our round-up of the week’s best sporting videos has a little something for everyone.
# sailing - Sunday 3 July, 2011
Tall Ships weekend: Your pictures
TheJournal.ie’s readers captured the festival atmosphere and stunning ships in the southeast…
# sailing - Monday 6 December, 2010
Winning ugly: the most unusual trophies in sport
G-Mac will fill his mantlepiece with a few trophies this year. Yesterday’s prize is amongst the more unusual however.
# sailing - Monday 13 September, 2010
America’s Cup to switch to catamarans for 2013
Premier sailing event will move from one hull to two.
# sailing - Wednesday 28 July, 2010
14-YEAR-OLD LAURA Dekker has succeeded in her legal bid to attempt a world sailing record. She had been barred from attempted the round-world journey by Dutch authorities last year, and placed under child protection services.
In October she was placed in state care, but ran away two months later and was discovered in the Dutch Antilles.
A Dutch court ruled in December that she could remain with her father under state supervision, despite his support for her trip. Her mother had expressed her concerns about the attempt, but has since withdrawn her objections.
Dekker’s lawyers said she had met all of the criteria laid down in court in order to be allowed undertake the voyage. This included obtaining a first aid cert and learning sleep management techniques.
She will have to complete the two-year trip before her 17th birthday in September 2012 to break the record. The current record was set in May by Jessica Watson, a 16-year-old from Australia.
In June, 16-year-old Abby Sunderland from the US was rescued during her record attempt after her boat was seriously damaged by a storm.
# sailing - Wednesday 21 July, 2010
AFTER BEING DENIED permission to sail solo around the world last year by the Dutch authorities, 14-year-old Laura Dekker has renewed her bid.
Dekker is attempting to break a world record by becoming the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
She will need to complete the worldwide trip before 20 September, 2012 – when she turns 17 – to break the record.
Her bid was denied last year, but the court did outline certain areas where she could make progress if she was determined to complete the journey. Dekker’s lawyer said that she has now carried out all the court requests and that she should be permitted to make the trip.
Dekker has:
- Had her sailing plans approved by an independent sailing expert
- Obtained a first aid diploma
- Registered with a distance education facility so she can to continue her education while at sea
- Gained solo sailing experience
- Learned sleep management techniques
City council social workers have requested that Dekker’s care order to be lifted so she can start her trip. However, the national child protection council wants the court to Dekker extend state supervision for another year.
Despite her mother opposing the plans at first, both Dekker’s parents now support her wish to sail solo. Last weekend her mother wrote an open letter to the authorities pleading with them to grant her daughter’s wishes, and added the the child protection agencies are “criminal organisations” that wanted to break her daughter’s spirit.
Last month 16-year-old Abby Sunderland, who was attempting a solo round the world mission, had to be rescued after she got into difficulty in the Indian Ocean.
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Poll: Is Alan Shatter’s position as minister untenable?
A MOTION OF no confidence in the Minister for Justice will be debated in the Dáil next week with Fianna Fáil claiming Alan Shatter’s position is now “untenable”.
The opposition party has been fiercely critical of the Fine Gael deputy’s handling of an ongoing row with Independent TD Mick Wallace.
“The Minister has shown extremely poor judgement of late. In particular, he used private information he received from the Garda Commissioner to undermine an opposition TD on Prime Time last week,” Niall Collins charged.
Shatter is currently facing two investigations by the Data Protection Commissioner and the Standards in Public Office Commission over his actions. He was also forced to clarify the nature of an incident where he was breathalysed by gardaí but could not complete the test because of asthma.
Although the motion of no confidence is unlikely to pass (as the government can table a counter-motion), TheJournal.ie wants to know what you think. Is Alan Shatter’s position as minister untenable?
Poll Results:
Read: Shatter: ‘I was breathalysed, but hadn’t done anything wrong’
More: Commissioner told Shatter about Mick Wallace’s encounter with Gardaí
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