Council offers help to ferry firm after further technical problems

CORK County Council is prepared to offer its expertise to the embattled MV Julia should its owners, the Fastnet Line, require help.

That message has come from assistant county manager, Theresa White, who said the local authority was fully behind the ferry company and would do anything it could on its behalf.

Conor Buckley, chairman of West Cork Tourism – which raised the cash to purchase the vessel – said he was confident the vessel would sail out of Ringaskiddy tonight, following yet another postponement due to electronic malfunctions.