'Every time we launch the lifeboat, we think of him': Honouring lives lost at sea

A new initiative from the RNLI enables families to celebrate the life of someone they have lost on the hull of a lifeboat

The RNLI ran a fundraiser for Clifden lifeboat. The “launch a memory” fundraiser involves donating a suggested contribution of €30 to have someone’s name included on the new lifeboat hull.

Megan Roantree is still pinching herself over the outcome of a simple spell-check.

She knew her father probably used a ‘fada’ in his name, but she wasn’t absolutely sure. It had been 13 years since he had passed away when she herself was only 13 years old.