Island’s last single woman gets married

The last single woman on Coney Island off Sligo married yesterday.

Marie McGowan wore her bridal gown to take a boat from her home on the island to the mainland. She was ferried the one kilometre across to Rosses Point by Eithne Davis, a regular pilot of Daryl Ewing’s boat, known as the Coney Island taxi.

Marie, 36, a nurse at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, grew up on the island where her family — the only full-time residents — run the only pub which is visited by tourists and people who have holiday homes there. Marie’s only sister Anne left after she married 11 years ago.