Dr Eugene Farrell was the invited keynote presenter on April 15^th in Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick for the Regional Studies Association (RSA) workshop on Sustainability Transitions in the Coastal Zone. The RSA research network aims to bring together scholars focused on the dynamics of coastal zones as economic spaces in order to catalyse a discourse on new coastal economies, addressing problems of lock-in and system inertia in the current regime and exploring means to foster radical innovation for sustainable and resilience based coastal development all while making sure the spatial dimension and the regional context are fully conceptualized