{"id":428404,"date":"2026-05-02T08:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/428404\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T08:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:38:08","slug":"rte-archives-education-sail-training-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/428404\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 Archives | Education | Sail Training Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"leadin\">A new organization Sail Training Ireland will promote sailing and maritime activities for young people.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">Ireland has not had a national sail training programme for young people since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/archives\/2018\/0903\/991298-asgard-ii-survivors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the sinking of the Asgard II<\/a> in 2008.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">This is set to change, however, with the establishment of Sail Training Ireland. Nigel Rowe who is president the organisation says the focus is on using the sail training experience to develop a range of life skills in young people.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">Financial support in the form of bursaries will ensure that teenagers from all backgrounds can participate in Sail Training Ireland events.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">It is hoped that a replacement for Asgard II will be purchased in the coming years. Kalanne O\u2019Leary from Sail Training Ireland believes that this will be backed by the sailing community in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">An RT\u00c9 News report broadcast on 2 May 2011. The reporter is Joe O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new organization Sail Training Ireland will promote sailing and maritime activities for young people. Ireland has not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,187164],"class_list":["post-428404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sail-training-ireland-for-youth-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}