RNLI to provide Youghal station with new lifeboat

The RNLI has announced it will provide a new state-of-the-art lifeboat next spring to a Co Cork station.

Youghal will get a bigger, faster, and better-equipped vessel as a replacement to the one in use since 2002.

The new Atlantic 85 craft, which is 27ft 7in long, will be powered by twin 115hp outboard engines and will carry a host of new equipment on board, including radar and VHF direction-finding equipment.