The beach offers young children endless opportunities to explore and learn

Heading off to the beach for a spine-tingling dip in the ocean is one of the great Irish summer traditions. Keeping you safe while you're there is the constant concern of the highly-trained lifeguards

Members of the RNLI talk about the realities of saving lives for a living.

People are being encouraged to participate in the 'Explore Your Shore' surveys, to play their part in marine conservation by gathering information about local shorelines.

Macdara Ó Cuaig of the Marine Institute tells Liz O'Brien why we need to protect our waters if we want our planet to thrive

Richard Hogan welcomed three members of the Badjao tribe into his home last year. The experience changed his life

Q&A with Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Eamon Ryan

The pandemic had reset our attitudes and relationships to pretty much everything, including the sea

Gas fields off the Cork coast have supplied Ireland with energy for decades but are coming to an end. Can wind energy replace them.

You may not need to place reef-safe sunscreen at the top of your SPF priority list, says Jennifer Rock

In the final part of our special series on the impact of coastal erosion, Padraig Hoare, Environmental and Sustainability correspondent, hears about efforts to stem the tide at the magnificent Rossbeigh beach in Co Kerry, helped along in the healing powers of Mother Nature, and how funding could further help aid those efforts

This week the Irish Examiner is running Ocean Week, a celebration of the importance of the waters that surround us. 

An artist, an entrepreneur and a surfer tell Helen O'Callaghan how their lives and livelihoods have been influenced by the sea

Battered by Covid-19, the fishing industry nervously awaits Brexit outcome

To celebrate Ocean Week, here are some podcasts about the sea to fill your ears with. Put on your shorts and let's hop in

People in Ireland play their part in tackling the global challenge of saving marine life by fully supporting the 'Clean Oceans Initiative' led by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Join us for the [i]Irish Examiner's[/i] ‘Ocean Week 2020’.

On day two of a three-part series Environmental & Sustainability Correspondent Pádraig Hoare discovers how a beach clean has grown into a 300-strong community group with a global outlook

Flossie Donnelly, 13, has become well known for her campaign to clean Dublin's beaches of plastic waste. She speaks to Eve Kelliher

The sun and the moon's gravitational forces will determine how high a tide is and when it will come in

Packing up the kids in the car and heading for the coast is far less of an adventure  and much less time-consuming these days

Majella O’Neill Collins is an artist based on Sherkin Island. The sea acts as a metaphor in her work. WHAT IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OCEAN?“I live almost on the sea.

Pádraig Hoare commences Irish Examiner Ocean Week by visiting a community group in west Kerry that is working to undo the damage we are doing to our coastline