Crew rescue couple again — 15 years on

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

Crew rescue couple again — 15 years on

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.

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