RNLI chief praises Union Hall lifeboat fund ‘heroes’

The new head of the RNLI visited Union Hall on the south coast yesterday to see where the port’s new lifeboat service is to be trialled over the next two years.

Charles Hunter-Pease, who is on his first official visit to Ireland, was shown where the vessel will be based, and the area it will cover, by members of the local committee which lobbied for it following the Tit Bonhomme disaster.

And retired radiologist Dr Raymond Fielding from Monkstown, Co Cork, has pledged to help fund a lifeboat service if the trial is successful, in memory of his wife, Christine, who died last year.