Push for Valentia Island's Unesco status

Valentia Island’s telecommunications history is “of outstanding universal value” and it should be inscribed as a Unesco world heritage site, 200 delegates at a convention will hear this weekend.

The delegates from the US, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland will attend the talk to mark the 151st anniversary of the laying of the transatlantic cable from Valentia to Heart’s Content Newfoundland in Canada.

The event, the first of what is to be an annual lecture series, will outline “a trans-national” proposal for world heritage status for both sites.