Lifeboat rescues family of five from stricken boat off Cape Clear

The inshore lifeboat Bessie assisted from Baltimore. Pic: Baltimore Lifeboat

A FAMILY outing to Cape Clear Island became a distress call this evening, Sunday July 15th.

The Merry Fisher, a 6.5 metre motorboat, experienced difficulties with her fuel line when en route from Cape Clear Island to White Hall. [Read more...]

Fixing crumbling island pier could cost up to €20 million

Cape Clear's North Harbour

EFFECTIVE repairs to a crumbling pier on Cape Clear Island could cost anything from €750,000 to €20 million according to a consultant’s report commissioned by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

The revelation was made by Minister Simon Coveney under questioning on the issue in the Dáil from West Cork TD Noel Harrington.

According to Deputy Harrington, the island’s 125 inhabitants are increasingly worried that the Bull’s Nose Pier in the North Harbour may collapse at any time.

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