{"id":7187,"date":"2014-05-01T21:42:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T20:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=7187"},"modified":"2014-05-01T21:42:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T20:42:30","slug":"rathlin-sounds-off-with-maritime-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2014\/05\/rathlin-sounds-off-with-maritime-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Rathlin Sounds off with Maritime Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

The heart of the Causeway Coast and Glens newest nautical festival returns with a boom this year as the Rathlin Sound Maritime Festival was launched by Chair of Moyle District Council Cara McShane, Michael Cecil from the Rathlin Community and Paul Kerrigan from Ballycastle community on Thursday 1st<\/sup> May.<\/h2>\n
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Rathlin Sounds off with Maritime Festival with Caroline Carey, Tourism Development Officer, Moyle District Council and John Morton, Harbourmaster: The heart of the Causeway Coast and Glens newest nautical festival returns with a boom this year as the Rathlin Sound Maritime Festival was launched. The festival will run from 23 May \u2013 1 June and will see a packed programme including walking tours, boat trips; sports such as paddle boarding, kayaking and dinghy sailing, a programme of traditional music including street entertainers' competition open to everyone, traditional sessions in local pubs and hotels in addition to sampling the local fayre. For further information about the festival log on to www.heartofthecausewaycoastandglens.com\/maritimefestival or contact Ballycastle Visitor Information Centre 028 2076 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Festival, now in its second year, celebrates the rich maritime heritage and history of Rathlin Island and Ballycastle and promises to be a week of spectacular sailing and sod-based activities.<\/p>\n

Organised by Moyle District Council, Ballycastle Community Development Group and the Rathlin Development & Community Association, and sponsored by the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, there will be something for land and sea lovers, with sailing, historic and modern craft, demonstrations, exhibitions and guided walks, seafood themed markets as well as menus, music and entertainment.<\/p>\n

Chairperson of Moyle District Council Cllr Cara McShane said, \u201cWe are really looking forward to welcoming visitors and locals\u00a0to Rathlin Island and Ballycastle. The beauty of the Causeway Coast and Glens is renowned the world over and the Rathlin Sound is a hidden gem that is ready to be discovered.”<\/p>\n

Caroline Carey, Tourism Development Officer, Moyle District Council , said\u00a0\u201cFollowing the success of last year\u2019s event, we\u2019ve come back bigger and better with a range of events and activities for all the family. Whether you want to try your hand at paddle boarding or kayaking, take a sunset boat trip in one of the most scenic locations in Ireland or simply taste the best of local fayre \u2013\u00a0with a market, special seafood menus in local restaurants and cookery demonstrations \u2013 there will be something for everyone to enjoy at the Rathlin Sound Maritime Festival. There are plenty of events to choose from including fantastic family friendly events.\u201d<\/p>\n

The celebration is centred on Rathlin Sound, the body of water that lies between Rathlin Island and Ballycastle on the spectacular north coast of Ireland, right in the heart of the Causeway Coast and Glens and the opening weekend will feature a fancy dress parade with the backdrop of the Tall Ship and finishing with music and a seafood barbeque on 23 May in the Diamond, Ballycastle.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the course of the week we will be celebrating our passion for the sea, local culture, heritage and history culminating in Rathlin\u2019s \u2018Big Lunch\u2019, music from \u2018Goats Don\u2019t Shave\u2019 and traditional boat races on the 1st<\/sup> June. We look forward to visitors arriving by boat and of course by road, bike and bus and cannot wait to share our little part of the world with the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe packed programme includes walking tours, boat trips; sports such as paddle boarding, kayaking and dinghy sailing and both Ballycastle and Rathlin will definitely be \u2018sounding off\u2019 with a programme of traditional music including street entertainers’ competition open to everyone, traditional sessions in local pubs and hotels.\u201d<\/p>\n

The festival will run from 23 May \u2013 1 June. For further information about the festival log on to\u00a0www.heartofthecausewaycoastandglens.com\/maritimefestival<\/a> or contact Ballycastle Visitor Information Centre 028 2076 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The heart of the Causeway Coast and Glens newest nautical festival returns with a boom this year as the Rathlin Sound Maritime Festival was launched by Chair of Moyle District Council Cara McShane, Michael Cecil from the Rathlin Community and Paul Kerrigan from Ballycastle community on Thursday 1st May. The Festival, now in its second … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7189,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions\/7189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}