Book by late author launched

A book documenting the latter-day history of Ireland’s trading schooners has been launched four years after its author died.

Irish Sea Schooner Twilight was written by renowned sea historian Dick Scott, who succumbed to a debilitating lung disease in 2008, aged 81.

The book was unveiled in Ballinacurra’s Brooklands bar — known as ‘Jacko’ Creenan’s — a pub named after a ship featured in the work.