Successive governments have failed to act on recommendations made following the Whiddy Island disaster, which killed 51 people 40 years ago.

In Bantry tomorrow, families from Ireland and France will gather to remember the Whiddy Island disaster of 40 years ago — many with questions still unanswered decades later, says Noel Baker

The spiritual leader came, saw, and conquered the hearts and minds of the Irish people in 1979, writes Dan Buckley.