In the early hours of a summer morning, Niamh Scullion from Belfast, and her teammates, row their 12-seater currach past Islay Island, in Scotland’s Hebrides. They continue past Gigha, another island ...

It's an image familiar to most Irish people – the sight of men carrying a currach on their heads as they walk down to the sea – but it was given a new twist this week when four newcomers to Ireland ...

Funding has been granted by Wicklow Rural Partnership, Minister for Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltach Affairs and the EU Commission under the Leader+ Programme to Blessington and District ...

Dublin's Temple Bar is known for its craic agus ceol, but in recent weeks, visitors may have come across a currach too. The traditional boat has been built in TØN Gallery by artist Mark Redden. Mr ...

QUINCY — On most Tuesday and Thursday evenings, a group of men and women can be seen rowing traditional Irish boats in the waters off Houghs Neck. From afar, the vessels, called currachs, look like ...

A traditional wooden and canvas boat built by a community group in Enniskillen has been launched on Lough Erne. The 33-foot currach took about 12 weeks to build by a group of volunteers with little or ...

Shipshape: Holger Lönze covered the hull of his boat with recycled denim and coal tar It's a sunny day at Kinnego Marina on Lough Neagh. A crowd of people are gathered on the shore, chatting, making ...

For almost a year, dedicated volunteers have headed to Belfast's Titanic Quarter twice a week to build a boat from scratch. But this is no ordinary boat. This is a currach - a traditional boat, as ...

A NEWGRANGE currach, presently being manufactured by hand by a local man, will sail thousands of miles from Spain to Newfoundland next year in a remarkable journey of discovery. Sea trials for the ...