Cobh bids to attract visitors for Titanic centenary

EFFORTS are under way to attract more visitors to Cobh in Co Cork next year to mark the centenary of the sinking of RMS Titanic.

A website detailing the liner’s last port of call in the town has been launched to increase awareness of the Irish link to the famously ill-fated voyage.

When the Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic in April 1912 it sank with the loss of over 1,500 lives, including 79 of those who boarded in Cobh.