Engineers hope to save fishing community’s ‘lucky charm’ in upgrade of beacon

ENGINEERS hope to save a famous mariners’ “lucky charm” as part of a major upgrade to an important navigation beacon outside a busy fishing port.

The Commissioners of Irish Lights (CIL) began work yesterday upgrading the Colt Beacon which marks rocks close to Castletownbere in west Cork.

The lighthouse authority – which also manages the country’s coastal navigation aids – will spend the next week installing a hi-tech light on top of the previously unlit red pole which marks the rocks.