Crew rescue couple again — 15 years on

It was déjà vu for the crew of the Courtmacsherry lifeboat yesterday.

After they had rescued 18 sailors from the Astrid near Oysterhaven on the South Cork coast, it was suddenly time to turn out again, on a second emergency call.

They had to rescue a yacht and a couple they last had, quite bizarrely, rescued 15 years ago — in almost exactly the same spot off the Old Head of Kinsale.