Titanic tribute of fire and water

Symbolic fires blazed on headlands and islands along the Cork coast last night marking a timeline of the Titanic’s ill-fated maiden voyage across the Atlantic a century ago.

It followed a solemn national ceremony earlier in Cobh — the doomed liner’s last port of call — during which President Michael D Higgins honoured the memory of the 1,514 victims of the 1912 tragedy.

Hundreds of people took part in the lighting of ceremonial fires and solemn remembrance ceremonies at Old Head, Seven Heads, Galley Head, Toe Head, Cape Clear, Crookhaven, Mizen Head, Sheep’s Head, Bere Island, Garranes, and Crow Head.