Global support to honour Irish Navy veterans

Naval associations around the world are backing a campaign to ensure two Irish veterans are given bravery awards 53 years after they helped save a ship’s crew during an explosion.

LÉ Cliona had been conducting an anti-submarine exercise off Cork harbour on May 29, 1962, when catastrophe struck.

The vessel had been deploying hedgehog mortars and depth charges in an exercise witnessed by a number of Naval Service officers, civilians, and members of the press.