Kowloon Bridge: Remembering the disaster that struck 30 years ago
Many lessons still need to be learned from the disaster on the high seas
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Eddie Cassidy, who was then West Cork correspondent for the ‘Cork Examiner’, recalls the fate of the Kowloon Bridge, which ran aground 30 years ago this week.
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